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1862, New Zealand's first professional opera performance
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29 September
1862
New Zealand'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.
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