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12:45 PM.Anthony Ritchie reviews last night's NZSQ national tour opening Dunedin concert. Audio

12:15 PM.NZ actor playing the lead role of Winnie in Silo Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days'. Audio

1:00 PM.British choral conductor touring NZ on behalf of the New Zealand Choral Federation. Audio

12:15 PM.NZ soprano back from the UK to perform in the APO's Concert: Echoes of War and Orpheus Choir's Bach: Mass in Bm. Audio

1:00 PM.Plays lead role of 19th Century adventurer Louis de Rougemont in Circa Theatre production of 'Shipwrecked'. Audio

12:15 PM.Director of New Zealand Festival 2011 discusses arts event to run in association with the Rugby World Cup. Audio

1:20 PM.Pianist performing Saint-Saens with Opus Orchestra this weekend in Hamilton, Tauranga and Rotorua. Audio

12:55 PM.Phil Brownlee reviews last night's tenth anniversary concert in Wellington's Ilott Theatre. Audio

12:32 PM.Robbie Ellis takes a tour of the new gallery and arts centre at the Pah Homestead in Auckland's Monte Cecilia Park. Audio

12:15 PM.Senior Lecturer in Piano at the University of Auckland talks about this Sunday's Chopin and Schumann Extravaganza. Audio

1:00 PM.Music director, baritone and theorbo player preview upcoming Musica Sacra series presentation of Monteverdi's Vespers. Audio

12:15 PM.Co-Adjudicator of The Big Sing national secondary school's choral festival talks about the final. Audio

1:00 PM.Second violinist from the NZSQ previews NZ tour, which starts in Napier on Saturday. Audio

12:15 PM.Member of The California Guitar Trio performing at G-Taranaki guitar festival, which begins today. Audio

1:10 PM.Clarissa Dunn speaks to NZ cellist who is the principal cellist of China's first privately owned orchestra. Audio

12:17 PM.Writer and director of The December Brother - performances at Downstage theatre 14 Aug - 1 Sept. Audio

1:07 PM.Uwe Grodd reviews last Friday night's opera in concert performance of Strauss's Elektra featuring soprano Elizabeth Connell. Audio

12:15 PM.Founders of Stroma contemporay music ensemble talk about 10th anniversary concert this Thursday. Audio

12:55 PM.Leading lady of London's West End performing The Works of Rodgers and Hammerstein with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Audio

12:38 PM.Teacher and students from Australia's South Gippsland Seconday College talk abou their NZ tour. Audio

12:13 PM.Chairman of the NZ Choral Federation previews the Big Sing finals taking place in Auckland next week. Audio

1:05 PM.Young UK-based NZ violinist touring the country with his chamber group 'Trio Boyarsky'. Audio

12:15 PM.British conductor exploring his musical theatre roots for the NZSO's The World of Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers concerts. Audio

1:12 PM.Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand CEO who has just been appointed to Shakespeare Globe Council in UK. Audio

12:41 PM.NZ Opera General Dirtector presents the second part of his series on Wagner's Ring cycle. This week: Die Walkure. Audio