Day: June 23, 2014

Opera Australia has released soprano Tamar Iveri from her contract and she will not be performing in its Sydney production of Otello in July and August. A statement posted on the singer’s Facebook page last year compared gays and lesbians to fecal matter. Opera Australia had been under intense public pressure to release the singer […]

   Warm & wonderful times on Saturday night, Familiar faces mingling with the bar crew and clucking Hers and Hers Hens with their rowdy gaggle of girls kept the packed out POP on Ponsonby grooving til the wee hours of the morning. Photos | Evan Donnelly 20 June

NZ Opera’s production of La Traviata opened in Auckland on 19 June to enthusiastic acclaim from a full house at the Aotea Centre. Verdi’s tale of a fragile society girl in Paris who reluctantly accepts love only to be forced to give him up, is possibly the most performed opera in the world and a […]