The Auckland Philharmonia performs Stravinsky's Rake's Progress in concert

This was the first of three community performances of Noye’s Fludde to be put on by New Zealand Opera this month to celebrate this year’s Britten centenary. Britten wrote this work to be performed predominantly by a cast of amateurs with professional singers filling the roles of Noah, his wife and as the voice of God.

Auckland choir Viva Voce’s final offering for the year was a semi-staged performance of Handel’s late oratorio Solomon. An attempt to stage Solomon must deal with two important issues: firstly, not a lot dramatic happens to actually stage, and secondly, the three acts bear little dramatic relation to each other.

Im bewegenden Schostakowitsch-Abend der Nürnberger Staatsphilharmonie brillierten Eckehard Stier am Pult und die junge Geigerin Christina Brabetz

The latent complexities of Nobuo Uematsu's video game music come to the fore with this orchestral makeover by the LSO. 

For the third concert of their 2015 Premier Series, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra under Musical Director Eckehard Stier presented "Out of this World", a varied programme of Bach, Dutilleux and Shostakovich.

A Child Of Our Time brought this year's Auckland Arts Festival to a magnificent finish with its message as universal as it was when first composed.