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• John Drummond: A Beleaguered City  Year: 2002 

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• Festival '98 - ALLEY, an opera by Jack Body 

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Bitter Calm is a full length opera for five principals, chorus and orchestra in two acts. It is based on an incident at Motuarohia Island in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand in the 1840s. It is a drama of human passions in the contexts of land alienation and tensions between Maori and new settlers. Premiered at the New Zealand International Festival for the Arts in 1994 and filmed for television.

• Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile 

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• Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile 

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• Blake: Bitter Calm (Scenes 1-3) 

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• New Zealand Electronic Music 

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• New Zealand Electronic Music 

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• Lilburn: Complete Electroacoustic Works 

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• Footrot Flats - Songs of the Musical 

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Hōhepa originates from the request by Matiu Mareikura (Ngati Rangi) to Jenny McLeod to write the story of Hōhepa Te Umuroa. In 1988 Matiu ensured Hohepa’s bones were repatriated home to Pati-arero on the Whanganui River from Maria Island, Tasmania. Jenny undertook what she describes as a “sacred trust” to honour her friend’s wishes, whānau and the memory of Hōhepa. The result is a succinct hour and forty-five minute through-written opera, epic yet very human at heart.

Since taking up the task of librettist and composer in 1996, Jenny’s research has been extensive based on recorded, personal and oral histories (she has since supplied Witi Ihimaera with this material for his subsequent book The Trowenna Sea). The NBR New Zealand Opera have been connected with Hōhepa since its inception, originally encouraging Jenny to write a chamber opera. The vision for 2012, in collaboration with the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, is to realize Hōhepa on a larger scale to do justice to the scope of a story crammed with characters, and to include specialized dance and kapa haka performers in the staging.

Source: nzopera.com

• Jenny McLeod: Hohepa 

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• Drummond: Impersonating Maurice and Marriage a la Mode  Year: 2004 

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• Buchanan: It Began With a Pony; computer-set 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: It Began with a Pony  Year: 1998 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: Two Salon Operas  Year: 2003 

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• Williams, M.N.: Lonely Heart; computer-set 

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• Williams, M.N.: Lonely Heart  Year: 2005 

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• Drummond: Impersonating Maurice and Marriage a la Mode  Year: 2004 

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