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    Godfrey Bowen

    Bowen helped establish sheep shearing as a legitimate sport and a form of entertainment. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

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NZ's first professional opera performance

1862 NZ's first professional opera performance

Dunedin's Royal Princess Theatre was the venue for a performance of Donizetti's Daughter of the regiment by the visiting 'English Opera Troupe', supplemented by local performers. more...

External links

  • NZ Opera (NBR NZ Opera)
  • Gaetano Donizetti (Wikipedia)
  • Opera (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Creative life: music (Te Ara)
  • La fille du regiment (Wikipedia)
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