Performer: New Zealand Opera Chorus

AucklandOpera in Concert: Madama ButterflyConcert performance

Auckland Town Hall: Great Hall, Sat 25 Jul at 19:30

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Giordano Bellincampi; New Zealand Opera; Auckland Philharmonia; New Zealand Opera Chorus; Erika Grimaldi; Gaston Rivero

Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Sep 23, 25, 27 mat

Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles

Stephen Barlow; New Zealand Opera; Yannis Thavoris; Jake Wiltshire; Auckland Philharmonia

Isaac Theatre Royal, Oct 14, 16, 18 mat

Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles

Stephen Barlow; New Zealand Opera; Yannis Thavoris; Jake Wiltshire; Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

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New Zealand Opera's new production impresses with its stunning set design and art direction, and its restrained emotional tone.

***11

Director Simon Phillips takes the opportunity to reshape the setting of Rossini's comic opera to modern-day New Zealand.

***11

Gareth Farr re-orchestrates Gluck in Neil Ieremia's imaginative reinterpretation of the Orpheus myth for New Zealand Opera.

****1

Lindy Hume directs a refreshingly uncomplicated new staging for New Zealand Opera, supported by fine musical performances.

****1

An excitingly theatrical Verdi Requiem under Giordano Bellincampi, benefitting greatly from a mostly stunning line-up of solo singers.

***11

Edo de Waart opted frequently for slow, steady tempi that robbed the music of a lot of its inner vitality.

**111