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The Doran family and their associates left a shameful trail of filth and devastation in their wake two years ago, antics which saw them branded worse than pigs by the Mayor of Auckland.
New Zealand Opera s 2020 production of Eight Songs for a Mad King.
Photo: Jeff McEwan
A letter from the board chairperson on Tuesday confirmed directors Murray Shaw, Rachael Walkinton and Witi Ihimaera had resigned.
The news comes about two weeks after the company announced its newest production would be based on the saga of the so-called unruly tourists - a story that gripped the media in the summer of 2019 - in an effort to draw in new audiences and tell local stories.
Renowned New Zealand tenor Simon O Neill said, while he was not opposed to that remit, the topic was wrong.