Nz Festival Of The Arts
BACH: Bete, bete from Cantata BWV 115
Emma Pearson (soprano), Bridget Douglas (flute), Rolf Gjeltsen (cello), Joan Perarnau Garriga (double bass), Douglas Mews (organ)
Performed in 'Bach by Candlelight' at Wellington's Michael Fowler… Audio
Carl Bland - Mr Red Light
Actor, playwright and painter Carl Bland wrote and co-directed Mr Red Light, a comic story about a bank robbery that goes wrong (so badly wrong in fact that the would-be robber ends up taking hostages… Audio
Theatre as a political tool
Taking the conventional wedding rom com and giving it a First Nations twist, Australia's ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and New Zealand's Te Rehia Theatre Company bring cultures together in Black Ties. Audio
Director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan
Irish director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan (aka Micháel MacAodhagáin-O'Dobhailen) was last seen at the festival in 2018 with a production of Swan Lake. He returns with the Teac Da sa… Video, Audio
Bret McKenzie
Oscar-winning songwriter, and one half of world-conquering comedy folk duo Flight of the Conchords, Bret McKenzie is also one of this year's Festival of The Arts' curators. He's assembled an eclectic… Audio
Laurie Anderson: 'I feel the same as I did when I was five'
American artist and musician Laurie Anderson is one of the curators of this year's NZ Festival of the Arts. Anderson tells Kim Hill she feels unchanged by the decades that've passed since she… Video, Audio
Lou Reed's guitar tech on his NZ Arts Fest show
Lou Reed had the same guitar tech for the last ten years of his life, a man called Stewart Hurwood. This week Stewart is in New Zealand performing Lou Reed Drones, a loud, engulfing soundscape created… Audio
Feminist romance writer Bronwyn Sell
Set on an island resort, author Bronwyn Sell has given her cast of characters a set of tricky situations and no way out in her latest novel Lovestruck. Audio
Peter Sellars: genre-defying director stages Canadian opera
Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social… Audio