Richard A. Betts
Writer and Editor at Freelance
Columnist at New Zealand Listener
Nasty, brutish and short. Columnist, @nzlistener, other words elsewhere. Now mostly to be found @ https://t.co/auh2pjHxvs
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3 weeks ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Richard A. Betts
Samuel Dundas: Wandering minstrel. Photo / David Noles Good old Puccini, he knew how to write for his musicians. Take, for example, La bohème, which NZ Opera brings to the stage for the first time since 2018. Casting a bunch of opera singers as impoverished artists isn’t exactly a stretch, is it, especially in this part of the world? “I think it’s typecasting to be honest,” deadpans Australian baritone Samuel Dundas, who takes the role of Marcello.
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3 weeks ago |
clintonherald.com | Richard A. Betts
At the April 23 Easton Valley Board meeting, Superintendent Chris Fee proposed adding two more shared administrators — a Special Education Director and a Curriculum Coordinator — to a growing list of six already shared employees across Easton Valley, Delwood, and Andrew districts. The public must pay attention. These six shared employees include the superintendent, business manager, HR director, transportation director, nutrition director, and technology director.
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1 month ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Richard A. Betts
Kaitāia Community Voices at the 2024 World Choir Games. Photo / Ihaka Korewha “He’s a cocky little shit,” says Dr Opeloge Ah Sam affectionately in episode one of Choir Games. Ah Sam’s mild opprobrium is directed at Kees, a 17-year-old mechanic who happens to have an attractive tenor voice that the choir director, known to all as Ope, is trying to slip into the Kaitāia Community Voices.
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1 month ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Richard A. Betts
As birthdays go, Reuben Brown’s 25th was pretty good. It was the day he was named New Zealand assistant conductor-in-residence 2025, which means he’s working with Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony and Dunedin Symphony Orchestras, and shadowing Auckland Phil’s music director, Giordano Bellincampi. “It was like a Hollywood movie,” Brown recalls.
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2 months ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Richard A. Betts
Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn. Photo / Getty Images I am uncoupled and unmoored. #A-Haydn-A-Day is over and suddenly life is emptier. Readers of this column may recall the cult-like group that gathered on the social media platform Bluesky, determined to listen to every one of what turns out to be 107 symphonies.
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