The sequel to Phantom of the Opera has hit Australia and it is a treat for the ears and eyes of Lloyd Webber fans.

Even with handbills and posters to prove it, I pinch myself to believe that Andreas Scholl, one of the world's leading countertenors, will be singing in the Town Hall this Tuesday.

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Programme of tasty morsels served with wonderful flair

Heroes don't come much kookier than Xerxes. He may be the King of Persia but he opens Handel's opera by extolling the beauties of a plane tree; a man who, as one character comments, "is aroused by a rough trunk."

Rebecca Barry talks to Kiwi opera singer Kristen Darragh about her drive to perform around the world.