Taking a bow
Mar 21, 2021
4 minutes
by RICHARD BETTS
Tim Finn may be a household name in this country, but when the singersongwriter got in touch with celebrated Tahitian novelist Célestine Hitiura Vaite, she’d never heard of him.
“I get a lot of people contacting me through my publisher and the email said, ‘Hello from Tim Finn!’ I thought, who’s that?” she says.
That was a guy with an idea that had been fermenting slowly for several years – a song cycle/opera based on the intertwined lives of two great men of the sea: James Cook, the first European to set foot in Aotearoa; and Tupaia, the legendary Tahitian navigatorpriest who
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