NZ Opera Presents: Macbeth 21st September 2022 Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Alexis Brook. Photography by Grant Triplow. Simply stunning. That’s how I would describe last night by the NZ Opera Company performing Verdi’s MacBeth inContinue Reading
The Cunning Little Vixen 23rd July 2022 Toitoi, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers. Photography by Hayley Munro. For the 2021 iteration of the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival, an as-ever ambitious programme of events was planned. However, in theContinue Reading
NZ Opera Presents: The Marriage Of Figaro 8th, 10th & 13th June 2021 Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Sarah Kidd. Photography by David Rowland. It is without a doubt, an opera of great popularity, Le nozzeContinue Reading
NZ Opera Presents: Semele 29th October – 6th November 2020 Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Sarah Kidd. Photography by Garry Brandon. When invited to such an auspicious wedding, one would expect it to be held in aContinue Reading
NZ Opera Presents: Eight Songs For A Mad King 11th – 19th March 2020 Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Sarah Kidd. Photography by Jeff McEwan. At a board room table, the gloss coating its dark wood glintingContinue Reading
Les Misérables 6th – 30th November 2019 The Civic, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Sarah Kidd. Feature Photograph by Lyndon Katene. Celebrating their one hundredth anniversary, Auckland Music Theatre in a debut production partnership with The Amici Trust once againContinue Reading
NZ Opera Presents: The Turn Of The Screw 18th – 23rd October 2019 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Sarah Kidd. Photography by Marty Melville. New Zealand Opera’s inaugural production under the direction of Thomas de Mallet BurgessContinue Reading
American Idiot 10th – 20th October 2019 The Civic, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Sarah Kidd. Promotional photography supplied. Ten years on from its inaugural performance, rock musical American Idiot finally made its sensational New Zealand debut last night. BothContinue Reading
School Of Rock 3rd – 29th September 2019 The Civic, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Sarah Kidd. Photography by Doug Peters. When Andrew Lloyd Webber gets his hands on something, it is guaranteed that he will soon turn it toContinue Reading