Even with handbills and posters to prove it, I pinch myself to believe that Andreas Scholl, one of the world's leading countertenors, will be singing in the Town Hall this Tuesday.

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Programme of tasty morsels served with wonderful flair

Heroes don't come much kookier than Xerxes. He may be the King of Persia but he opens Handel's opera by extolling the beauties of a plane tree; a man who, as one character comments, "is aroused by a rough trunk."

Rebecca Barry talks to Kiwi opera singer Kristen Darragh about her drive to perform around the world.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has paid tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland, who died in Switzerland on Sunday.

Dame Joan Sutherland, one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th- century, has died in Switzerland at the age of 83.

Auckland's St James Theatre is part of one of five convention centre bids being considered.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's operatic success was recognised tonight with the top Maori arts award.

NBR New Zealand Opera's The Marriage of Figaro is as engrossing a night of theatre as one could wish for.

The Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is reputed to have the world's finest acoustics.

Predictably, the star of last weekend's visit by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra was Dame Malvina Major.