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 o...

The opera Tapu takes as its theme the power of the Māori tohunga or priest.

'The production of the romantic opera Tapu was to afford plenty of possib...

The Three Shepherds was composed for and premiered by the students of Mana College, Porirua, New Zealand, in 1962. The work is intended for amateur perform...

The Secret Suffragette tells the story of the composer's great, great grandmother Mary Muller who campaigned for women’s rights in the 1800s. There are six...

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 Is...

Robyn Hood: Outlaw Princess (also called Robyn Hood and her Women of Sherwood) is based loosely on the traditional tales of Robin Hood. It is essentially...

A one act chamber opera

An operetta

A lyrical opera based on Tagore's dramatic poem 'Chitra'.

The one-act chamber opera is based on the short story of the same name by H.G. Wells. It is an exploration of voyeurism and a dark side of human nature that ...

The Tempest is Shakespeare's most musical play; as Caliban says "...the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs....". Its musical demands include man...

opera based on Otago goldrush story

O.pera in one act after Cervantes

opera in one act after Cervantes

Comic opera in two acts after Aristophanes.

William Larnach was an apparently highly successful New Zealand businessman and politician who committed suicide on October 12, 1898. The opera tells the sto...

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

Alan Wells in The Listener reviewed the premiere of this work in May 1997. "Comedy was indeed to the fore ... the moments of deliberate inaudibility, when...

Goldilocks a la Mozart is a comic opera which takes the Goldilocks story (with a twist) but sets it to themes by Mozart. The linking recitatives are origin...

operatic parody

Opera in three acts, based on The Idiot by Dostoevsky.

Lord Arthur Saville's Crime is comedy based on a shorty story by Oscar Wilde.

Set in a student flat at a time when mixed flatting was acceptable, but all students shared the one computer. The action concerns the attempts to reactivate ...

A chamber opera

Opera in one act:

I. Prelude
II. Donaldson vs. Adachi
III. Aria
IV. Chorus
V. Coercion
VI. Negotiations
VII. Incident
VIII. Inquiry

ACT ONE / THE GARDEN PARTY: Synopsis: Laura is helping her mother, Mrs. Sheridan, in the preparations for a garden party, when it is discovered that a death ...

An opera designed to be recorded and broadcast on radio.

LEN LYE the opera is based on the dramatic life of one of our most original artists. As an opera in the contemporary sense, it is a unique mix of music, po...

A satirical take on modern morality and the state of the economy. Against a backdrop of tumbling share prices a man struggles to retain his financial empire....

Markheim is a man at the end of his tether. What started as a robbery gone wrong has ended in a murder – a murder that seems certain to force him to kill onc...

A chamber opera freely adapted from the short story The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne.