New Zealand Opera to Present ‘The Unruly Tourists’ at the 2023 Auckland Arts Festival

New Zealand Opera will premiere its original comic opera, “The Unruly Tourists,” at the 2023 Auckland Arts Festival. Performances will run from March 22-26, 2022. The opera revisits a 2019 incident involving tourists from the UK who misbehave, leaving garbage and ill will. The episode sparked outrage and a national obsession with the tourists, keeping them on the front page {…}

NZ Opera Receiving Hate Mail Over General Manager’s Views on Standard Repertoire

NZ Opera has taken serious flack—complete with hate mail—from New Zealand opera-goers for daring to veer away from the standard repertoire and providing a mix of classic and contemporary offerings. Proving true circus impresario P. T. Barnum’s dictum that “There’s no such thing as bad publicity,” the company’s ticket sales are thriving despite the dust-up. The opera currently causing the {…}