Performer: James Benjamin Rodgers

Though occasionally entertaining, this production was ultimately unsatisfying as a stage presentation of Bernstein’s work. 

New Zealand Opera continues to strongly advocate Czech works, resulting in a gripping Káťa Kabanová.

A superlative performance of Carmen that was certainly among the most thrilling performances New Zealand Opera has put on in recent memory.

Fine singing from Simon O’Neill and Orla Boylan in New Zealand Opera's production of Tosca.

Sometimes in a performance there is a moment when everything just comes together; when every element on stage is operating at such a high level that the performance transcends these elements and causes one to become so immersed in the proceedings that you forget you’re at a performance at all.