Elric Hooper
Medea
Medea - Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss this frightening character from Greek legend. Audio
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007), presented by Elric Hooper and Des Wilson. Audio
Salome
Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss the popularity of the story of Salome, between about 1870 and 1920, and the many resulting works of art including Strauss's shocking opera. Audio
Elric Hooper
Theatre Director airs his concerns about the possibility of Shakespeare being dropped from the NZ school curriculum. Audio
Elric Hooper
Director of Southern Opera's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore which opens in Christchurch tomorrow evening. Audio
Elric Hooper and Martin Setchell
Director and Musical Director of two Menotti operas being staged as part of Canterbury University's Platform Arts Festival. Audio
Carmen
Elric Hooper and Des Wilson take us through the story and music of Bizet's classic opera. Video, Audio
Death and Venice - Part 3 - Nostalgia and Decay, Jazz and Jets
The events of 1797 which inspired Wordsworth's famous sonnet on the Extinction of the Venetian Republic also triggered the Romantic imagination for next century and a half. The nostalgia for the shade… Audio
Death and Venice - Part 2 - From Birth to Glory
Little music survives from the first eight hundred years of Venice's glorious history. Much of the great output of its decadence, the product of the last two centuries of the Republic, the… Audio
Death and Venice - Part 1 - Power, Pleasure and Mortality
The name Venezia triggers a whole series of images and sound-bites of memory or anticipation. Canals, gondolas, towering marble and intricate windows, pigeons and cafes, lapping waters and sonorous… Audio
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss Igor Stravinsky's music. Audio
Douglas LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas (1972)
Performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marc Taddei, narrator Elric Hooper Audio