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Fine singing but messy staging: Le Comte Ory at New Zealand Opera
Director Simon Phillips takes the opportunity to reshape the setting of Rossini's comic opera to modern-day New Zealand.
Unearthing New Zealand's lost art-song tradition
In this part-concert and part-lecture, Michael Vinten chronicles the history or New Zealand art song through the lives of the composers and poets featured, stories alternately hilarious and tragic.
Pinchgut takes on Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is given the Pinchgut treatment, with an abstract staging complementing historically informed music-making under Erin Helyard.
An exciting open air Carmen in Adelaide
Performing Carmen in the open works well. This open-air Adelaide event combined wonderful music and delightful singing, making for an impressive evening.
Ridding Carmen of cliches in Auckland
A superlative performance of Carmen that was certainly among the most thrilling performances New Zealand Opera has put on in recent memory.
A colonial Pearl Fishers in Perth
Bizet's The Pearl Fishers has its problems, but a good account of its score does have its pleasures, especially when it's all brightened up by the presence of Emma Matthews.