First Auckland Festival, AK07 Show SELLS OUT

Immediate Release 23 February 2007

First Auckland Festival, AK07 Show SELLS OUT

Auckland Festival, AK07¹s major classical performance, 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 NZSO¹s Mahler 2 - The Resurrection, is the first show to completely sell out.

³We are thrilled that the Mahler concert is sold out. Audiences have booked early to secure seats for this monumental work to mark the NZSO¹s 60th birthday. Those who have missed out should make sure they get into the APOs 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,² said Festival Director David Malacari.

Other Festival shows appealing to Festival-goers are; La Clique, playing at The Famous Spiegeltent at Red Square, Ronnie Burkett¹s 10 Days on Earth, German director Heiner Goebbel¹s Max Black, and on the home front avant-guard theatre-piece, Head, Taki Rua¹s Strange Resting Places and Tusiata Avia¹s 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 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 Auckland¹s extensive choruses. This concert will see more than 200 musicians on stage for a rare performance of Mahler¹s masterpiece, written as a direct homage to Beethoven¹s Ninth Symphony.

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