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Magical show features a whirlwind of colour and the return of an international star
22 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Whanganui Ballet & Dance Academy will present The Fairies Ball at The Prince Edward Auditorium this weekend.
Photo / Steve Caudwell
Whanganui Ballet & Dance Academy will present The Fairies Ball at The Prince Edward Auditorium this weekend.
Photo / Steve Caudwell
There will be magic on stage at the Prince Edward Auditorium this weekend.
Whanganui Ballet & Dance Academy will present The Fairies Ball - a magical ballet with favourite Disney characters.
Director Anna Chandulal said the production was a dance fest featuring Belle and the Beast, The Grinch, Red Riding Hood, The White Cat and Puss n Boots, Maleficent and Tinkerbelle - all characters that have delighted audiences in previous productions.
Whanganui leads the way again
18 Apr, 2021 10:35 PM
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We are the Most Beautiful in the Keep New Zealand Beautiful contest, and have put ourselves forward to be the first New Zealand community to be designated a UNESCO City of Design.
We are also the only town in New Zealand to celebrate International Jazz Day - another UNESCO initiative. Perhaps that is why it has been a well-kept secret.
This will be our fourth annual event, last year having been cancelled due to the lockdown.
And what an event it will be, with some 40 musicians from all over the country playing a wide variety of popular music and with many of the musicians performing together for the very first time . because jazz can do that. It adds an excitement that only improvisation can bring.
Chamber Music Subscription Series opens in heritage style
7 Mar, 2021 08:51 PM
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Wanganui Midweek
The first of the subscription concerts for Chamber Music Wanganui s 2021 series will take place on Wednesday, March 17 at 7.30pm in the Prince Edward Auditorium of Whanganui Collegiate School.
This is a concert with a difference, drawing on a heritage theme and presented in an informal manner with something for all musical tastes.
Hammers & Horsehair duo Douglas Mews (piano) and Robert Ibell (cello) toured extensively around Aotearoa in 2016, 2018 and 2020.
Their concert in Whanganui is the first of a six-stop tour of the North Island in which they are joined by well-known Wellington soprano Rowena Simpson to reimagine the triumphant 1922 New Zealand tour of Blenheim-born Rosina Buckman (soprano) with Adelina Leon (cello) and Percy Kahn (pianist-composer).
Emma Pearson proud to tutor at Opera School
17 Dec, 2020 10:33 PM
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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 Wellington.
For the past 10 years Emma has lived in Wellington with her New Zealand husband Wade Kernot, a bass baritone and former student of the opera school who teaches music at Victoria University.