Upbeat

David Alsop returns with what’s worth soaking in during spring. He shines the spotlight on current arts policies and what they have meant for the visual arts in the lead up to this week’s election. He… Read more Audio

Doris Day is the inspiration behind Ali Harper’s new show A Doris Day Special. Ali documents the “singing sweetheart” of America though a string of movie hits and top 10 songs, with music direction… Read more Audio

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has produced a 360-degree virtual reality experience which teleports users up on stage. Each of five vantage points offers a different view as well as a different… Read more Audio, Gallery

There’s something charming, yet manic, about Pianomania, a concert following the history of the piano with charismatic pianist/director Freddy Kempf and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. The series is… Read more Audio

New Zealand Opera’s final production of 2017, Janacek’s Katya Kabanova, opened in Auckland this weekend. It follows house wife Katya, who is expected to stay at home and obey her husband and cruel… Read more Audio

Spring is being celebrated through opera, jazz, movie screens and musical collaborations at University of Auckland’s School of Music. The two week festival of events involve young performers and the… Read more Audio

Funding and support for Artists and the Arts are the main election issues facing the major political parties in respect to Arts, Culture and Heritage. In the build up to Election 2017 Upbeat on RNZ… Read more

Punk Rock musical That Bloody Woman is currently touring the country. While the main focus is on suffragette Kate Sheppard’s  fight for the female right to vote, young singer Phoebe Hurst nearly… Read more Audio

Rising star Tamsin Waley-Cohen is described by The Guardian as performing with “fearless intensity”. She’ll be bringing that passion to her performance of Samuel Barber's rarely-heard Violin Concerto… Read more Audio

In our final political discussion around Arts, Culture and Heritage policy, recent Minister for the Arts Maggie Barry outlines where National stands on funding for the Arts, what the Arts contribute… Read more Audio

Georgia Steel is a high-flying young violist and conductor who is legally blind.  Read more Audio

Rutene Spooner grew up on the East Coast and he was so inspired by Hollywood and Broadway actor Hugh Jackman that he wrote a musical about him. Super Hugh-man makes its debut at the Auckland Live… Read more Audio