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Upbeat for Thursday 23 January 2014

  • Aidan Land: NZ Opera 2014

    1:15 PM.Outgoing Artistic Director of NZ Opera previews the 2014 season. Audio

  • Fathe Tesfamarium: MIXIT

    1:00 PM.Auckland based Eritrean dancer and actor previews this weekend's 'Mixit' Access Project performances. Audio

  • David Lawrence: The Bacchanals

    12:15 PM.Wellington-based theatre director and star of The Bacchanals upcoming production of 'As You Like It'. Audio

12:15 David Lawrence

Star of the Bachannals production of As You Like It

David Lawrence

12:30 Fathe Tesfamarium

Mixit Dance performer previews this weekend's Access Project performances

Mixit Dance

12:40 Simon Romanos

Upbeat contributor looks at the world's great String Quartets

1pm Aidan Lang

Outgoing NZ Opera Artistic Director previews the 2014 season

NZ Opera

Music played in this show

STRAVINSKY: Infernal Dance from The Firebird
Toulouse National Orch / Tugan Sokhiev
Naïve V 5192

JEAN-LUC PONTY: Bowing-Bowing
Turtle Island String Quartet  
KOCH 3-7500-2

D'RIVERA: Wapango
Turtle Island String Quartet, Paquito D'Rivera (cl)
KOCH KIC CD 7529

BALAKRISHNAN: Skylife
Turtle Island String Quartet
WYNDHAM HILL 01934-11226-2

PUCCINI: La Bohème
Philharmonia / Antonio Pappano
EMI 3 58650

VERDI: La Traviata
La Scala / Antonio Votto
DG 477 5665