First Auckland Festival, AK07 Show SELLS OUT

Immediate Release
23 February 2007

First Auckland Festival, AK07 Show SELLS OUT

Auckland Festival, AK07 announces it’s major classical performance, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra 's Mahler 2 – the Resurrection , has SOLD OUT!

With only two weeks to go until Auckland Festival, AK07 kicks off, shows are filling up, and the NZSO’s Mahler 2 - The Resurrection, is the first show to completely sell out.

This special concert not only celebrates the orchestra’s 60th Anniversary it will also mark the end of conductor James Judd’s eight year tenure as NZSO Music Director.

“We are thrilled that the Mahler concert is sold out. Audiences have booked early to secure seats for this monumental work to mark the NZSO’s 60th birthday. There are other classical music concerts that those who have missed out on Mahler should make sure they get to, including the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s ambitious bookend concert on the 25th March, Fire-Wind-Water. Many Festival performances are proving to be popular, so audiences should get in early to make sure they get good seats or, in some cases, any seats at all,” said Festival Director David Malacari.

Other Festival shows appealing to Festival-goers are; La Clique, playing at The Famous Spiegeltent at Red Square, Ronnie Burkett’s 10 Days on Earth, German director Heiner Goebbel’s Max Black, and on the home front avant-guard theatre-piece, Head, Taki Rua’s Strange Resting Places and Tusiata Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt.

There are plenty of tickets available for the 60-plus Festival shows but they are selling fast so Malacari urges people to get in early for their preferred performances.

About Mahler
Mahler 2, the Resurrection, is presented by the NZSO, supported by the ASB Community Trust. It is being performed on Friday 9th March at the Auckland Town Hall. This one-off Auckland only performance will open the Auckland Festival, AK07 and will feature the Chapman Tripp Chorus of The NBR New Zealand Opera, soprano Patricia Wright and mezzo-soprano Helen Medlyn joined by a massed choir formed from Auckland’s extensive choruses. This concert will see more than 300 musicians on stage for a rare performance of Mahler’s masterpiece, written as a direct homage to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

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