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Amazing Breaking the Waves: Scottish Opera at the Adelaide Festival

By Brian Angus, 13 March 2020

Breaking the Waves is a remarkable opera. Scottish Opera has brought a thrilling cast, orchestra and team to Adelaide, and its audiences are all the richer for it.

*****

*****

Adelaide

14 Mar 2020

Amazing Breaking the Waves: Scottish Opera at the Adelaide Festival

By Brian Angus

Auckland

The Bone Feeder: Haunting new opera premiered in Auckland

By Simon Holden, 23 March 2017

The Bone Feeder was a thought-provoking deliberation on the history, culture and the nature of belonging.

****1

****1

Auckland

25 Mar 2017

Haunting new opera premiered in Auckland

By Simon Holden

Auckland

Awkward direction hampers New Zealand Opera's Magic Flute in Auckland

By Simon Holden, 16 June 2016

A solid Magic Flute from the performers but marred by the director's foibles.

***11

***11

Auckland

18 Jun 2016

Awkward direction hampers NZ Opera's Magic Flute

By Simon Holden

Auckland

Singers the stars in New Zealand Opera's Don Giovanni

By Simon Holden, 18 September 2014

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

***11

***11

Auckland

20 Sep 2014

New Zealand Opera's Don Giovanni

By Simon Holden