New Zealand Opera
Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand, 12, 13 October
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Given its world premiere last May, Kenneth Young’s gets a second outing in October as part of the Dunedin Arts Festival. But it’s not the only new work in New Zealand Opera’s armoury this season. December brings by Tim Finn (of Crowded House fame). Verdi’s , meanwhile, stalks Wellington and Christchurch; and on 27 October Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja gives a recital in Auckland.