Event listing: Songs and Dances of Desire: In Memoriam Carmen Rupe | Auckland Town Hall: Great Hall | Fri 8 Mar 2013 at 20:00

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Auckland Town Hall: Great Hall301/317 Queen Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand

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Body, Jack (b. 1944)

Performers

Auckland Philharmonia
Kenneth Young	Conductor
Warwick Broadhead	Director
Norio Sato	Guitar
Xiao Ma	Countertenor
Anna Pierard	Mezzo-soprano
Mere Boynton	Vocals
Jason Moore	Dancer

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Tribute to Carmen Rupe with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Simon Holden, 8th March

The subject of Songs and Dances of Desire, this new performance piece with music by Auckland Philharmonia composer-in-residence Jack Body, is Carmen Rupe, drag queen extraordinaire, champion of gay rights and one-time mayoral candidate, who died in 2011. She evidently saw herself in the operatic figure of Carmen, and Body’s work is sprinkled with appropriations from Bizet’s opera.

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