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The Wishing Tree: the Gesualdo Six at the Auckland Arts Festival
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From the oppressed Catholic minority of 16th-century England to contemporary settings, The Gesualdo Six bring their Wishing Tree programme to Auckland.
Rare revival of the earliest known opera by a female composer
Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina, performed at the Medici court in Florence in 1625, is said to be the first opera composed by a female composer.