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Upbeat for Monday 19 September 2016

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 16 September 2016
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Sweeney Todd cast

Helen Medlyn

Antoinette Halloran and Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Antoinette Halloran and Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Joel Granger and Antoinette Halloran

Amelia Berry and James Benjamin

Joel Granger

Phillip Rhodes and Andrew Glover

Teddy Tahu Rhodes

New Zealand Opera and Victorian Opera’s production of Sweeney Todd

  • What’s the role of feminism today?

    Engraving from  New Zealand Graphic, 21 July 1894, a woman holds a flag proclaiming ‘Perfect Political Equality’

    1:40 PM.On Suffrage Day Claire Regnault, a curator from Te Papa, and Anastasia Burn from Wellington Girls College Feminist Club discuss pressing issues for women today. Te Papa recently acquired a rare medal… Read more Audio

  • Choreographing The Dinner Party

    Crows Feet dancers in 'Hakari - The Dinner Party'

    1:20 PM.Jan Bowell is the choreographer of Hakari - The Dinner Party. The show which will play at Q Loft as part of Tempo Dance Festival and is a take on Judy Chicago’s 1979 art installation which made note… Read more Audio

  • Sweeney Todd reviewed

    Sweeney Todd cast

    1:00 PM.Peter Hoar reviews New Zealand Opera and Victorian Opera’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd. It stars Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Sweeney Todd and Australian soprano Antoinette… Read more Audio, Gallery

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 16 September 2016
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 20 September 2016
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