erformances on April 22 and 24. Tickets here There was a real sense of occasion at the opening of the newly-formed Wellington Opera company. Auckland-based NZ Opera seems strangely reluctant to produce full-scale operas, so there was an opportunity for a local venture to fill the gap and fulfil perceived wants. Opera is a notoriously complex and expensive medium, so to form a new company virtually from scratch is a tremendous achievement and a credit to the enterprise and drive of all involved, not least in securing significant funding. Covid has been a world-wide scourge to the performing arts, but this has worked to advantage in relatively safe New Zealand, allowing this new company to enlist the services of New Zealand singers previously plying their trade successfully in Europe or the USA and a finer cast could hardly be desired.
Review - Wellington Opera brings the #metoo movement to the stage with Mozart s Don Giovanni
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He didn’t grow up exposed to opera. Far from it. He’d never heard opera till he was 18, when he was forced into a singing lesson, he says. “I had been a musician forever, playing the piano, jamming with friends, playing every genre you could think of, but I’d never come across opera. I remember hearing it for the first time, thinking ‘What is
this!’”
Rigoletto. It’s still his favourite and the role he covets most. “I didn’t know the male voice could sound like that. All the emotion – I thought, this guy’s hurting, but I didn’t know why.”
Press Release – New Zealand Comedy Trust
New Zealand Comedy Trust and Best Foods Mayo present
BEST FOODS COMEDY GALA
As part of the 2021 NZ International Comedy Festival
After a disrupted 2020, and a blockbuster Best Foods Christmas Comedy Gala being one of the biggest comedy shows in the world last year, the New Zealand Comedy Trust is delighted to announce the return of the
NZ Intl Comedy Festival for 2021, running
May 4 – 23.
Best Foods Comedy Gala, hosted by the legendary
Justine Smith at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Aotea Centre on Friday 30 April in Tāmaki Makaurau, and coming to Pōneke on Sunday 2 May at the Wellington Opera House. As always, a spectacular selection of Aotearoa’s comedy superstars will guarantee big laughs from their bite-sized sets, all packed into a fast-paced live show that will tickle every kind of funny bone.