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Queen’s Closet finds musical threads in Baroque’s rich tapestry (opens the original)
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Gordon Lehany (foreground) and Sharon Lehany (right) with other members of Wellington’s Queen’s Closet. Photo / Supplied We tend to think of “Baroque music” as one stylistic blob: a bit of counterpoint here, some wildly ornamental stuff there and Bach’s yer uncle. It’s really not like that. Why would it be? The period covers roughly 150 years: 1600-1750. If you leap forward the same time span from, say, Beethoven’s last works, you’re knee deep in the Sex Pistols. “You can tell people this stuff,
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the world’s hottest young classical musician, visits for two concerts (opens the original)
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: “Everywhere I go to play, I will always reach out and give a class.” Photo / Chris O’Donovan The Listener has been urging Sheku Kanneh-Mason to lie. The English cellist, who performs Elgar’s concerto with Auckland Philharmonia this month, has been recovering from a finger injury. Prosaically, he did it by bashing his hand on a door handle. “A very, very simple kind of silly accident,” he says, sheepishly. He does, however, seem enthusiastic about our suggestion he make up a b
Hot young tenor Pene Pati helps sell out Wellington show (opens the original)
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Pati Pene appears in Wellington Opera's sold-out season of Manon, along with soprano Amina Edris. The couple married in 2016. Photo / Capucine de Chocqueuse Jules Massenet is a big deal. He wrote more than 30 operas, and you’d almost certainly recognise the Méditation from Thaïs, if you’ve never knowingly heard anything else. Even so, the composer (1842-1912) is rarely performed here. It’s a shame. Werther and Manon are lovely; the latter in particular has a couple of gorgeous arias. But would y
Legendary soprano presents a one-off gala of top operatic talent (opens the original)
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Dame Malvina Major: “You’ve got to have guts to do this opera stuff.” Photo / Deanna Walker In January 1965, just days before her 22nd birthday, months before she left New Zealand for an international opera career and decades before she was made a dame, Malvina Major married Winston Fleming in Hamilton. As was the way back then, she took his faith, converting to Catholicism. Still, Major was aware of what was going on over at the Anglican cathedral across the river. “I’ve always known about St P
Flutters of imagination: Antony Ernst returns to direct Madama Butterfly (opens the original)
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Antony Ernst: Puccini plays with your emotional reactions. Photo / Supplied Auckland Philharmonia’s Opera in Concert shows are among the city’s important cultural events. People still talk in hushed tones about 2010’s Elektra. The guy who programmed it was Antony Ernst, the orchestra’s former manager of artistic planning, who left at the end of that season. After 15 years in Europe and Australia, the Sydneysider is back to direct Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The opera is an oft-performed staple –
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