Opera Fundraiser At Taupaki Opera

This is a fundraiser for the Kaipara ki Mahurangi Labour Party and an event to meet up with our candidate Jolyon Swinburn. We will have drinks and light food available. Children free entry.

Elizabeth Mandeno is a former Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist with NZ Opera. She studied with Dennis O’Neill and Nuccia Focile at the Wales International Academy of Voice, where she earned an MA with Distinction in Advanced Vocal Technique. Elizabeth has performed as a soloist alongside Dame Felicity Lott and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and in 2019 she won the Lockwood New Zealand Aria, sponsored by the Dame Malvina Major Foundation.

Will King was the winner of the 2018 Wellington Aria Competition, and runner up in the 2018 Becroft North Shore Aria Competition. His concert repertoire includes OrphEus: A Dance Opera, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore and Mass in C Minor and Donizetti’s Requiem.