Upbeat

Cynthia Morahan and Clarissa Dunn look at some of the ways children experience classical music in Aotearoa. Read more Audio

Emere Wano from Womad discusses some of the names and acts coming to New Plymouth in 2017. Women and politics are dominant themes among the artists including Brazilian Bebel Gilberto, Grammy award… Read more Audio

Young writers from around the country will take to the stage this weekend to compete in the Rising Voices Youth Poetry Slam finals. Carrie Rudzinski knows all too well what it’s like to stand up and… Read more Audio

Veteran Wellington bass Roger Wilson looks back on a long career as he prepares for a weekend birthday celebration through song. Read more Audio

Mention dance in New Zealand and more often than not Malia Johnston’s name will pop up. Her experience stretches far and wide, from WOW, to working with Rodney Bell on Meremere. Malia was awarded the… Read more Audio

Most musical performers hope their audiences stay awake but Jeremy Mayall and Kent Macpherson are encouraging their audience to bring a sleeping bag and pillow for their concert To Sleep, which will… Read more Audio

Life is the theme for Footnote NZ Dance’s biggest work of the year. Lifeworld (In five parts) is choreographed by Claire O’Neil and explores concepts around the human condition and the world we create… Read more Audio

New Zealand Opera has announced its 2017 programme that includes three operas ranging across the spectrum. General Director Stuart Maunder discusses how well 2016 went for the company including its… Read more Audio

The Royal New Zealand Ballet has announced its 2017 season that will see the company give 70 performances across 16 New Zealand cities and towns. Perennial favourites Carmen and Romeo and Juliet … Read more Audio

40 year old Matthew Shilvock has been at the head of one of the largest opera companies in the world for just three months but his succession has been 10 years in the planning. He rose through the… Read more Audio

A world's worth of performers will visit Taranaki in March for WOMAD 2017. Read more Gallery

Dutch piano virtuoso Ronald Brautigam is in New Zealand to perform one of Mozart’s most loved concertos, No 24 in C Minor,  with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Edo de… Read more Audio