A major shift in arts funding over the last
few years has been the entry of the universities. They have put up funding for
many of the largest exhibitions by NZ artists and more than a few of the art
publications and now the University of Auckland is taking Len Lye to the opera.
With words by Lye’s biographer Emeritus
Professor Roger Horrocks, music by Eve de Castro-Robinson a
teacher in the Music Department and produced by the University of
Auckland's National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, LEN LYE the opera had its first outing at the University's Maidment Theatre in Auckland
last night. In the cast are University of Auckland staff members including Te
Oti Rakena, a key player in the presentation of Michael Parekowhai’s On first looking
into Chapman’s Homer.
As Te Oti Rakena singing in his role as an
art dealer has it:
“To survive in art
You have to be smart.”
You can catch rehearsal action here.
