Upbeat

What happens to your body when you fall in love? Is the reaction stronger than a drug? That’s the basis of The Effect at Auckland’s Q Theatre. A duo meet and fall in love while part of an… Read more Audio

RNZ presenter Lloyd Scott is hanging up the headphones in August. He joins colleague Eva Radich to talk about his long and illustrious career in musicals, theatre productions, television, radio and… Read more Audio

Star violinist Alina Ibragimova is back to play with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra tonight after her memorable debut with the orchestra playing Shostakovich five years ago. This time she takes on… Read more Audio

Kiwi young gun Filipe Manu has scooped the pool at the Australian Singing Competition, winning the Marianne Mathy Scholarship, and the Audience Prize. The twenty-four year old Auckland tenor receives… Read more Audio

Scottish tenor horn player Sheona White is in New Zealand as a guest soloist for Wellington Brass Band this weekend. Known as the ‘Voice of the Tenor Horn’, Sheona took the brass band world by storm… Read more Audio

American composer John Adams’ work has been a heard a lot by local audiences thanks to his long friendship with NZSO Music Director Edo de Waart. Adams discusses the role de Waart played in… Read more Audio

The New Zealand International Film Festival opens this week in Auckland and then in a number of centres across the country. It features films from Cannes, kiwi documentaries and films that have… Read more Audio

The combination of decomposition (pun intended), deadpan humour and death is all part of a day’s work for up and coming conductor David Kay. He’s carrying the baton for Lemony Snicket: The Composer is… Read more Audio

Aspiring Wellington opera singer soprano Imogen Thirlwall is off to study in Berlin after being awarded a language scholarship from the Goethe-Institut New Zealand. To raise funds she is bringing a… Read more Audio

Peter Hoar reviews Manon Lescaut, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Opera in Concert led by Music Director Giordano Bellincampi. This was Puccini’s break through opera with all the ingredients of… Read more Audio

A re-imagining of the Ibsen classic A Doll’s House by Emily Perkins will be staged at Circa Theatre next month. This modern take on Ibsen’s nineteenth century play which provoked a storm of… Read more Audio

Singing to babies strengthens the attachment between mother and infant and encourages children to self-regulate. It can also help mothers with postnatal depression and benefit babies with Down's… Read more Audio