In September, he was accepted and granted a scholarship to study at the school this year.<\/p>\n
As well as organising fundraising concerts to help with expenses, he is working as a salesman in an upmarket clothing shop in Ponsonby. <\/p>\n
Singing opera runs in the family, he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBoth my parents were opera singers.\u201d <\/p>\n
This year he will perform as a soloist for Bach Musica in Bach\u2019s Easter Oratorio, as well as alto solo roles in Pergolesi\u2019s Stabat Mater and Vivaldi\u2019s Gloria for other groups.<\/p>\n
His voice transformation has been a remarkable change in his life, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exciting, I\u2019m loving every minute of it.\u201d <\/p>\n
Last year, as a baritone, he won the Dame Malvina Major award for most promising artist at the New Zealand Aria competition.<\/p>\n
Being in London later this year also means he can foster his great love of Handel and baroque music.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is so much there, I can\u2019t wait.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe opera school has been amazing, it has been a great love of mine forever.\u201d <\/p>\n
Reid appointed trustee <\/p>\n
Fergus Reid has been appointed a trustee of the New Zealand Opera School. <\/p>\n
Reid has been involved with the school for eight years; before that, he was working as a technician at Royal Whanganui Opera House, and music has always been a strong force in his life.<\/p>\n
Reid now has his own business, Tech Services, featuring lighting, sound and associated production aspects for events.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really enjoy being a part of the opera school and mixing with the students, it\u2019s wonderful and special.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said keeping the school in Whanganui was important. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our town and it\u2019s wonderful.\u201d <\/p>\n
Born and raised in Whanganui, Reid spent some time in the UK and Melbourne but after five or so years the pull home came hard and fast. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven though I knew overseas meant more money, more people and all of that, I just knew I had to come home to Whanganui. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a really special community, special people.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September, he was accepted and granted a scholarship to study at the school this year. As well…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,129448,12784,13736,61751,71,22259,157,117,111,43,139,69,1118,44525,133184,9855,4062,4625,9631,383,32261,133185,61,80],"class_list":["post-221742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-baritone","tag-college","tag-counter","tag-doyle","tag-from","tag-jack","tag-music","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-opera","tag-relishing","tag-royal","tag-school","tag-singer","tag-student","tag-study","tag-switch","tag-tenor","tag-to","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}