The infamous English traveling family manage to rage New Zealand AGAIN… without even being there! The opera about their ruined holiday angers the Kiwis

An opera about the exploits of a family of travelers who wreaked havoc in New Zealand in 2019 has angered Kiwis, who would rather forget the sad episode.

The large Nolan clan regularly made headlines – both at home and Down Under – for their time in the country and the havoc they caused.

Members wreaked havoc on their return flight, eating at restaurants without paying their bills, leaving trash on idyllic beaches and threatening violence against local residents.

The mere mention of her name brings back many bad memories. It got so bad that New Zealanders even started a petition to have the family deported. They were eventually deported by the authorities.

Now an opera in New Zealand is putting the Liverpool family back in the spotlight, sparking outrage from some Kiwis – who would rather never have to think about the Nolans again – without the family even being far away.

The large Nolan clan have regularly made headlines – both at home and Down Under – for the time they’ve spent on the ground and the mayhem they’ve caused. In the photo: Police officers talk to family members in New Zealand

The Unruly Tourists – the operatic satire about the media frenzy that swept the family across the country – opened in Auckland on Thursday night.

New Zealand Opera’s website describes the 2 hour 15 minute show as a “raw comedy” filled with “satire, action and good old-fashioned Kiwi humor interwoven with soaring melodies and captivating choral ensembles.”

It reads: “In a story as long as anyone can remember, a swarm of ill-mannered tourists spread a trail of nonsense, fueled a national obsession, made international headlines and brought visitors into local courtrooms…”.

But the show was considered controversial before it even opened.

The British director Thomas de Mallet Burgess is regarded in New Zealand as a recalcitrant Brit, reports The Times.

Hired by state-sponsored Opera New Zealand to revive it in 2019, he became addicted to the media’s obsession with the Nolans themselves.

Speaking to the publication, the director said he felt “uncomfortable” with how the New Zealand public was treating the family, especially on social media.

Posts on Facebook, he says, “became feverish and some of those comments we actually use on the show itself. They exposed a layer of hatred and racism that became deeply uncomfortable.”

One of those messages in the opera is “Get off to your trailer dump.”

While The Unruly Tourists received mostly good reviews last night, Mallet Burgess’s decision to commission the opera led to the sacking of a number of company board members, including Witi Ihimaera, the country’s first Maori novelist.

At the time, he expressed his discomfort with where the company’s journey was going.

It got so bad that New Zealanders even started a petition to kick the Nolans out of the country after accusing them of causing chaos. They were eventually deported

Pictured: Footage shows a young boy telling a woman: ‘I’m going to blow your brains out.’ It was one of many incidents in 2019 that angered New Zealanders at the Nolan clan.

The infamous group were accused of vandalizing a beach (pictured), leaving a cafe without paying, damaging her apartment and stealing a journalist’s phone during a trip in which Auckland’s mayor described them as described “worse than pigs”.

In August 2022, the family made headlines again after reports that the patriarch, 29-year-old James Anthony Nolan (pictured), had died in the UK. Tributes to his family poured in on social media and a huge memorial service was held for him in London

James Nolan is pictured on the right with a family member while in New Zealand at the time

The opera’s former music director Lindy Tennent-Brown also resigned, calling the director’s work a “disgusting” opera and “not friendly” to New Zealanders.

“I don’t see how anyone could do a job about a bunch of tourists throwing their rubbish in the wrong place and swearing at the cameras – I don’t see how that would be interesting or funny to us New Zealanders,” she said the times.

The opening comes four years after New Zealanders petitioned to have the family deported after they were accused of causing chaos.

In an early incident, Aucklanders accused the family of leaving beer bottles and piles of rubbish on a crowded beach, before a child threatened to blow the “brains out” of locals who confronted them (it became the opera’s catchphrase).

They also claimed that the family – who became known as “unruly tourists” – left a cafe without paying, damaged their rented flat and stole a journalist’s phone.

Numerous reports state that they have left restaurants without paying, claiming to have found ants or hair in their food, and insulting staff.

A family member was even charged with fraud, assault with a firearm and reckless driving. Another pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery.

Finally, New Zealand had had enough. At the end of January 2019, they received an eviction notice after an incident of “unruly behaviour” at a Burger King.

It gives them 28 days to leave the country, it said at the time. Auckland’s mayor declared the family “pigs” and Kiwis took to social media to lash out at the clan.

In August 2022, the family made headlines again after reports that the patriarch, 29-year-old James Anthony Nolan, had died in the UK.

The extended family of travelers was responsible for a spate of complaints and alleged crimes across New Zealand in 2019

A huge funeral was held for him in Teddington, south-west London, where a silver-gilt carriage was drawn through the streets as mourners followed him.

Nolan himself was charged with assault after allegedly driving his car into a young woman who was filming his family during the incident.

But he never did justice to the allegations, as he fled the country on someone else’s passport. A customs official mistakenly allowed him to board a plane to leave the country despite an arrest warrant.

Despite all the chaos and reports, on their return to the UK the Nolan family sensationally claimed to be the victims, whining that they had spent an “entire holiday” being “tortured and convicted is”.