2024 Lexus Song Quest - Semi-Final 2

2024 Lexus Song Quest - Semi-Final 2 Performances

Finding the voices of tomorrow in the second semi-final of the Lexus Song Quest.

RNZ Concert presenter Clarissa Dunn is your host on stage at St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Wellington.

Hear the second five of the ten semi-finalists: sopranos Tayla Alexander and Felicity Tomkins, counter-tenor Austin Haynes, tenor Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono, and bass Samuel McKeever compete for a place in the Grand Final, accompanied by pianist Terence Dennis.

Each singer performs two songs and after the interval their chosen aria.

Following that we will find out who will go forward to the Grand Final in the Michael Fowler Centre on 3 August.

Tonight's singers are performing:

FIRST HALF - Songs/Lieder

Austin Haynes

SCHUBERT: Memnon

HAHN: Infidélité

Tayla Alexander

RACHMANINOV: Oh sing no more

HEGGIE: Animal Passion, from Natural Selection

Samuel McKeever

FINZI: Channel Firing

RAVEL: Chanson à boire

Felicity Tomkins

PUCCINI: Morire?

RACHMANINOV: Spring Waters

Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono

BRIDGE: Love went a-riding

TOSTI: Ideale

SECOND HALF - Arias

Austin Haynes

HANDEL: Vivi tiranno, from Rodelinda

Tayla Alexander

PUCCINI: Tu che di gel sei cinta, from Turandot

Samuel McKeever

VERDI: Per me giunto, from Don Carlo

Felicity Tomkins

STRAUSS: Das war sehr gut, Mandryka, from Arabella

Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono

STRAUSS: Di rigori armato il seno , from Der Rosenkavalier

Followed by the announcement by Head Judge Sumi Jo of the five singers to go forward to the Grand Final in the Michael Fowler Centre on 3 August 2024.

Listen to first semi-final here

Recorded 28 July 2024, St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ Concert

Presenter: Clarissa Dunn

Producer: David McCaw

Sound Engineer: Darryl Stack

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Malvina Major, Jonathan Lemalu, Sol3 Mio’s Amitai Pati and Filipe Manu, are all previous Lexus Song Quest winners who now grace the opera stages of the world.