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David Griffiths  

3 Franks

Duration: 55' 00" Year: 2005
three short operas based on Franks Sargeson Stories

• Instrumentation
  soloists, SATB chorus, flute, clarinet in B flat, 2 violins, 2 cellos
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  • Griffiths, D.: 3 Franks; computer-set 

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John Drummond  

A Beleaguered City

 Year: 2002
an opera in six scenes to a libretto by Jeremy Commons

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  • John Drummond: A Beleaguered City  Year: 2002 

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Philip Norman  

A Christmas Carol

Duration: 1h 45' 00" Year: 1993
an opera for an ensemble of principals, chorus, dancers and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2121; 2200; percussion; timpani; 2 keyboards; strings

Philip Norman  

A Factory Opera

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 2002
a chamber opera for 6 principals, SATB chorus and 2 pianos

Alfred Hill  

A Moorish maid

 Year: 1905
opera

• Programme Note

  A Moorish Maid opened at His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland on 26 June, 1905 for a season of six nights.

  ‘The opera follows the familiar romantic themes of triumphant love and is interwoven with choruses of Arabs, hockey-girls, nubian slaves and ’riffians’ … The first night was a triumph: ‘a perfect hurricane of enthusiasm, vociferous cheering and waving of handkerchiefs.’

  Its success encouraged the composer to mount performance seasons in Wellington (September 1905) and Sydney (April 1906). These performances helped to launch the operatic career of Rosina Buckman.

  Information from A Distant Music by J M Thomson: pp: 83-89

William Green  

A-Tishoo: In Search of a Sneeze

• Programme Note

  operatic parody

David Farquhar  

A Unicorn For Christmas

Duration: 2h 00' 00" Year: 1962
an opera in three acts

• Instrumentation
  10 singers, childrens' chorus, orchestra: 2121; 2200; perc., pno; strings
• Programme Note

  A Christmas opera in 3 acts, based on a Ngaio Marsh play, and including audience participation in a number of carols.

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  • Farquhar: A Unicorn for Christmas; facsimile 

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  • Farquhar: A Unicorn for Christmas; facsimile 

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Jack Body  

Alley

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1997
an opera in two acts based on the life of Rewi Alley

• Instrumentation
  orchestra, chinese instruments, baritone, actor, 2 chinese folksingers, chinese opera singer
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  • Festival '98 - ALLEY, an opera by Jack Body 

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John Drummond  

And Grandmother Played Bridge

 Year: 1981
lyrics and music for a masque from the memoirs of Nicholas Zissermann

William Dart  

Away with the Fairies

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1983
a divertissement for diva

• Instrumentation
  voice and piano
• Programme Note

  Away with the Fairies is a string of kitsch songs about fairies and pixies, animals and children. They are linked by recitatives which, like the songs, include quotations from other composers’ music.

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  • William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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