Upbeat for Wednesday 19 October 2016

1:40 PM.The Royal New Zealand Ballet has announced its 2017 season that will see the company give 70 performances across 16 New Zealand cities and towns. Perennial favourites Carmen and Romeo and Juliet … Read more Audio

1:20 PM.40 year old Matthew Shilvock has been at the head of one of the largest opera companies in the world for just three months but his succession has been 10 years in the planning. He rose through the… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.A world's worth of performers will visit Taranaki in March for WOMAD 2017. Read more Gallery

1:00 PM.Dutch piano virtuoso Ronald Brautigam is in New Zealand to perform one of Mozart’s most loved concertos, No 24 in C Minor,  with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Edo de… Read more Audio