While most 13-year-old boys are intrigued by video games or sport, Hamish Burns is busy donning a suit and tails. The Mt Eden youngster is set to star in the NBR New Zealand Opera's mainstage ...

“Down to the last detail, Albery's production is thoughtful and penetrating, the evening absorbed by the enthralled audience in pin-drop silence.” [The Independent, UK] Verdi’s Macbeth is one of the ...

There was some grumbling when the Auckland Arts Festival put opera to the side in 2013. Two years before, it hosted a zesty production of Handel's Xerxes, made possible because the dates coincided ...