Acclaimed soprano to perform spellbinding song cycle with NZSO
(WorldNews Germany)

Media release: 24 September 2020 Renowned soprano Emma Pearson is to tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, performing in Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch in October. The Australian-born singer, who made her professional operatic debut with New Zealand Opera, will perform Richard Strauss` elegiac song cycle Four Last Songs. `As a young singer in Wiesbaden, Germany, I saw how this beautiful, deceptively hard piece, functions as a rite of passage for soprani,` says Pearson. `It requires a deep understanding of Strauss`...