New Zealanders are guaranteed a special buzz at the latest MetOpera presentation, opening next week.

Expat artist Felix Kelly is little known in his homeland but his colourful life story reads like a movie.

A 6am powhiri for two hundred international artists kicked off the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival on Wellington's waterfront this morning.

Swedish contemporary circus perform to live rock.

Movement and acrobatics performed by monks from the Shaolin Temple.

It's called Fresh Produce but it has nothing to do with farmers' markets or the current vogue for home-grown vegetables.

Hundreds of festival-goers slapped on sunscreen and absorbed three days of music and art by the sea at the biannual Splore festival at the weekend.

When Eugene Mursky makes his New Zealand debut on Thursday, he couldn't wish for a more theatrical launch than Prokofiev's glittering Third Concerto.

In Rotorua with Chinese Ambassador Zhang Limin, the Prime Minister took a mallet and chisel to what will be a 10m kauri waharoa, or gateway.

Distance has been no barrier to the collaboration of artists Melinda Young and Lauren Simeoni.