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Free summer concerts in the parks are back 18 Jan, 2021 10:03 PM 6 minutes to read Hawkes Bay Today The popular free summer concert series that includes Jazz on the Village Green in Havelock North and Summer in the Parks in Cornwall Park in Hastings will kick off on Saturday, January 30, and run till Sunday, February 28. . The concerts are a wonderfully relaxing and easy way to pass the summer weekend afternoons and offer a social hub for families and friends who gather with picnics to enjoy the summer groove. Arts Inc Heretaunga community arts development manager and chairman of Summer in t...

Whanganui Opera School, studio artist Ben Kubiak in role as a repetiteur 13 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Whanganui Chronicle Ben Kubiak's musical skills are vast. Not only is he a skilled repetiteur and accompanist, he is a singer, and composer who is able to take up all musical tasks with alacrity. Kubiak is a Dame Malvina studio artist and is relishing his role as a repetiteur at the New Zealand Opera School which is under way in Whanganui. "I'm the chap at the piano who makes faces at the singer if they muck up when they're singing," he said. Originally from Brita...

FRIENDS gather of an evening to witness the once-in-nine-yearly flowering of an exotic cactus. While they’re waiting for this miraculous night bloom, they keep themselves entertained in time-honoured tradition of telling heroic tales and reciting epic poems. The last recitation is the Gurresange – a grand tragedy of illicit love and jealous fury and the transcendental powers of nature to resurrect the human spirit. It goes something like this. Back in 14th century Denmark, King Waldemar loves the beautiful maiden Tove and they meet for secret passionate trysts at the castle of Gurre. ...

Emma Pearson proud to tutor at Opera School 17 Dec, 2020 10:33 PM 3 minutes to read Wanganui Midweek Australian soprano Emma Pearson considers herself an 'absolute Kiwi' as she lines up from January 4, 2021 as one of the five Kiwi tutors at the New Zealand Opera School. Emma, originally from Perth, trained with the Australian Opera Studio and has sung with the Australian Opera company as well as leading roles with companies throughout Europe and Britain. In October she sang in New Zealand Opera's production in Auckland of Handel's Semele then the Bach B Minor Mass with the Orpheus Choir in ...

Friday, 11 December, 2020 - 17:49 NZSO launches innovative Festival series and more special events in 2021 The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will introduce an innovative Festival series and expand its popular and accessible Setting Up Camp tour to more communities in 2021. The multi-day Festival and Setting Up Camp tours are in addition to an exciting selection of other concerts and special events the national orchestra will present next year. Renowned international conductors Marin Alsop, Vasily Petrenko, Asher Fisch and James Judd will join New Zealanders Gemma New, Holly Mathieson a...