For me, New Zealand has always felt like both a centre and an edge. It is a place people travel to, rather than through. That sense of distance brings clarity and space to explore, but it can also mean that New Zealand’s creativity develops slightly out of view of the wider world.
In preparing to direct Handel’s rarely staged Imeneo for Cambridge Handel Opera Company (CHOC), I have been fascinated to reflect on the periods of surging interest decline in the history of opera. Imeneo is Handel’s penultimate Italian opera, and as the genre waned in popularity in London, Handel needed to reinvent his business model and artistic outlook to be able to create and live.
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