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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

Ashley Heenan  

A Time for Offenbach

Duration: 1h 00' 00" Year: 1967
ballet in one act based on the music of Offenbach with choreography by Jurek Shabelewski

• Instrumentation
  2222; 2230; timp,perc; strs.

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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Christopher Small  

Children of the Mist

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1960
a ballet in two acts for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  11(1)21;2210;timp/perc;strs.

Dorothea Franchi  

Do-Wack-A-Do

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1968
orchestral suite from the original music for ballet of the same name

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  • Dorothea Franchi: Do-Wack-A-Do; audio 

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  • New Zealand Composers: Franchi, Axtens, Bowater, Freed, Lockwood 

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Jenny McLeod  

Earth and Sky

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1968
community music theatre

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Barry Anderson  

Maui

 Year: 1959, r. 1964
full length opera for large orchestra, chorus, soloists

Edwin Carr  

Nastasya

Duration: 2h 15' 00" Year: 1969, r. 1972
opera in 3 acts for 17 soloists and orchestra based on 'The Idiot' by Dostoevsky.

• Instrumentation
  (1)33(1)3(1)2(1); 4331; timp,perc,pf,hp; strs.

David Farquhar  

O Captain Cook!

Duration: 2h 00' 00" Year: 1969
musical based on Giradoux play

• Instrumentation
  soloists (1 soprano, 2 mezzos, 1 alto, 1 tenor, 4 baritones, 3 bass), Tahitian chorus, guitar, harmonium and percussion (drums)
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Christopher Small  

Suite from Children of the Mist

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1960
for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  22(1)2(1)2; 4330; timp, perc; strs.