Next year will mark Clonter’s 50th Anniversary, and we want to make sure it is the best year yet, but in order to make it to 50 we need your help. Any funding raised will help us be able to celebrate Clonter’s 50th Anniversary and continue to provide a nurturing and supportive place for emerging talent to flourish and entertain our audiences for generations to come.
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Testimonial – Bass Jonathan Lemalu
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Since winning the Clonter Opera Prize in 2000, representing the Royal College of Music, New Zealand born Samoan Jonathan Lemalu returned to Clonter to perform the role of Doctor Bartolo in the Barber of Seville in 2001.
Jonathan went on to be the joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier award and the recipient of the 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Award for Young Artist of the Year. He has been made an ONZM for his services to opera, as well as having been named an honorary fellow at the Royal College of Music.
Jonathan has and continues to perform at world renowned opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Chicago Lyric, Dallas Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Australia, and Glyndebourne.
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