Upbeat

This weekend Kiwi voices singing Kiwi tunes takes centre stage for Musical Theatre Unleashed. Read more Audio

Multi-award winning Welsh classical-crossover singer Katherine Jenkins comes back to New Zealand in November to give concerts in Auckland and Christchurch. She chats to Eva Radich. Read more Audio

Clarissa Dunn takes you behind the scenes at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2019.

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Members of the NZSO are performing music from the baroque at the moment – their concert La Notte, or The Night, focusses on Corelli, Telemann and Vivaldi. Soloist in Vivaldi’s La Notte is flutist… Read more Video, Audio

NZ Opera’s current production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) pulls out all the stops to put the comic into comic opera. Peter Hoar was at opening night in Auckland. Read more

The six finalists have been found for the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, but what are the judges looking for? Judge James Ehnes gives us some insight. Read more Audio

Opera Australia's West Side Story is coming to Wellington this week, with two New Zealanders making their mark with the Jets and the Sharks. Read more Audio

Alexander McCall Smith, Kate Atkinson and Jeanette Winterson are just some of the writers taking inspiration from the world of opera in the collection of short stories Midsummer Nights, Tales from the… Read more Audio

An esteemed panel of international judges has selected six semi-finalists from sixteen of the world's most talented young violinists competing in the Michael Hill International Violin Competition… Read more Video

Rako Pasefika is a performing arts group, based in Fiji, representing the small Pacific island of Rotuma. They're currently Artists in Residence in Auckland as part of the Pacific Dance Festival. Read more Audio, Gallery

Annabel Holland is New Zealand Opera's new Chair of the board. She chooses her five favourites. Read more Video, Audio

The arts, culture and heritage sector will receive an extra $87.490 million across the next four years, it was announced today in the government’s 2019 Wellbeing budget. Read more