Performer: Lisa Harper-Brown

Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking represents Freeze Frame Opera's best production to date, with a powerhouse performance by founder soprano Hattie Marshall. 

A mixed evening, more notable for the efforts of the cast than for Brodie's modern Don Giovanni concept.

On Thursday, a polar storm swept up New Zealand doing major damage to Wellington and, in the process, trapped the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra there as they prepared to fly to Auckland.