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13 Jan · 2012 · Opera House · Lindis Taylor

Standard continues to rise at New Zealand Opera School at Whanganui

Friday 13 January, 7.30pm The 18th New Zealand Opera School at Whanganui has most of the things going for it that make some of the great music festival of Europe such lasting attractions: all it needs is a real festival to give it context.…

16 Jan · 2011 · Lindis Taylor

Dialogues des Carmélites – the sources

In my review of the New Zealand Opera School’s gala concert on 13 January, I mentioned that Poulenc’s opera, Dialogues des Carmélites , in the last scene of which the Carmelite sisters are guillotined and which the women singers at the…