Film & TV | BBC | Digital Spy
13 October 2014
Two female detectives will be the lead characters in a new BBC drama set in Rotorua.
Luther creator Neil Cross will return to BBC as the creator of the drama, provisionally titled Bay of Plenty.
The show will focus on…
Film & TV | Telegraph (The)
9 October 2014
Ask Peaky Blinders star New Zealander Sam Neill to account for the success of the BBC’s six-parter about Birmingham razor gangs – an odd but winning mix of industrial grime, street violence, catwalk-friendly fashion…
Opera | Guardian (The) | Observer (The)
28 September 2014
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, one of the world’s greatest opera stars, has made an impassioned plea for Britain to stop blocking the flow of young singers into opera houses so that the top quality…
Film & TV | Telegraph (The)
8 October 2013
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, “one of the greatest opera sopranos of the past 40 years”, has joined Downton Abbey for a single episode to play Australian soprano Nellie Melba. The Telegraph’s Laura Thompson meets…
Film & TV | Huffington Post (The)
22 August 2013
New Zealand-born opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who has sung for presidents and princes, including in front of a 600-million audience at Prince Charles’s wedding to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, has revealed…
Film & TV | Los Angeles Times
4 March 2013
World-renowned New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is scheduled to appear on the popular British period soap opera, Downton Abbey. Producers of the show announced that Te Kanawa will appear as a guest…