Innovative, exciting and sometimes unexpected collaborations with actors, dancers, poets and visual artists have led the New Zealand String Quartet across boundaries in fascinating multi-disciplinary projects.
Find out more about a selection of these performances below.
A theatrical tour de force, The Kreutzer combines dance-theatre, live classical music and an interactive audio-visual feast. The work is based on an original idea by Peter Barber and has been adapted and directed by Sara Brodie. The Kreutzer is based on the famous Kreutzer Sonata by Beethoven, a novella by Tolstoy and Leoš Janácek’s first string quartet.
The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross Opus 51 by Joseph Haydn
Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross was commissioned for performance during Lent. Traditionally, the words or phrases (taken from all four gospels) are spoken, followed by a reading from the gospels, a homily or meditation on [...]
