Our season of The Monster in the Maze came to a bittersweet close last weekend, after unforgettable performances in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Staging any opera is a massive undertaking, but staging a community opera on this scale – with three different community casts across our three cities – has required something truly extraordinary.
We want to acknowledge the many people that brought this production to life and made it so special, each contributing their time, energy and dedication. From the creative team and crew, to the singers and musicians both professional and local, behind-the-scenes specialists, and to all the friends and whānau that came along to support – we couldn’t’ve done it without you!
Click or tap the city names below to see a full list of choir and orchestra participants for each.
Ōtautahi | Christchurch
SINGERS
Children
Toby Adams
Sandi Buwanayake
Zahara Cording
Sophie Frankish
Lucy Grubb
Ardan Hathaway
Josie Hogan
Manon Holderness
Aleksandr Ivanov
Youting Jiang
Leo Kim
Mereana Liu
Holly Martin
Lianna Mielle Mitra
Michaela Mitchell
Ida-Rose Nicholls
Adele O’Brien
Audrey O’Brien
Mac Simpson
Robin Singh
Yiting Su
Amelia Thomas-Wright
Scarlett Trowbridge
Youth
Annabelle Bealing
Ruby Bosworth
Shannon-Aimee Bradley
Rebecca Brown
Kate Croker
Eve Davies-Cowie
Elizabeth De Lima
Ash De Lima
Anna Engelbrecht *
David Evans
Jade Fu
Conrad Goddard *
Matilda Goldie
Kahu Gray *
Alannah Hounsome-Vail *
Olivia Lavery
Emily Liken
Oliver Livingstone
Léala Lucchese
Olive Malcolm
Rose Martin
Joseph McNeill
Sadhbh O’Neill
Merrick Oze
Tomairangi Paterson-Waaka
Tui Phillips
Livvy Pride
Sophie Reddecliffe
Amy Scott
Olivia Singleton
Talia-Rae Tupu
Cassidy Ward
Alexandra Watson *
Emily (Em) Watt
Leyton Wright
Adult
Nailia Alikova
Jo-Anne Allan
Rouke Bakker
Maurice Barnes
John Bayne
Franc Bol
Linda Bradley
Sally Brown *
Liz Bryce
German Carzoli
Eileen Charman
Pearl Chen
Diana Conner
Steve de Lima
Andrew Deyell
Shirley Dowson
Jason Eager *
Hannah English
Wren Fielding-Jones
Kim Frankish
Clare Goodwin
Ingrid Gunby *
Louisa Hall
Tania Hawes
Sam Henry
Ali Husband
Zoia Ivanova
Lynne James
Jo Jamieson
Steve Langley
Catherine Law
Karina Leppik
Shelley Liken *
Carmen Lintsen
Bobbie Mackie
Ben Maguire
Tara Martin
Mark McPhail
Fiona Mills
Nicole Moffat
David Moseley *
Steven Moseley *
Rory O’Connor
Donna Palmer
Sarah Polson *
Inga Robinson
Tamzin Roe
Mel Ross
Kristian Rubi
Glenda Ryan
Nigel Salsbury *
Nisha Senaratue
Warwick Shillito *
Eleanor Sim *
Karyn Taylor-Moore *
Rachel Tully
Judy van Dongen
Teresa von der Heiden
* Freemasons Foundation NZ Opera Chorus Members
CHRISTCHURCH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
accompanied by community players
Caspar Adams *
Katia Ashmore *
Honor Barry *
Sue Bealing *
Ben Blaikie *
Jonny Croker *
Antonio Dimitrov
Jessica Drury *
Monika Duncan *
Mateo Easdale *
Emma Eden
Thomas Eves
Roanna Funcke
Artemis Gaudin *
Naomi Hnat
Monica Hoetjes *
Kyle Hsieh *
Juhyeong Kim *
Mark La Roche
Caleb Langford *
Jay Lee
Karl Margevka
David McGregor
Freya McKeich *
Ashleigh Mowbray
Ava Palmer *
Selena Prior
Pablo Ruiz Henao
Emma Scurr *
Nigel Seaton
Grace Seaton *
Bernard Shapiro
Louise Shen *
Esther Simpson *
Rowan Sinton *
Tom Steele *
Cameron Stuart
Hye-Won Suh
Sophie Tanner
Elise Tian
Richie Tu *
Caroline Turner
Ethan Waines *
Helen Webby
Sho Woodhouse *
Annabella Zilber
* Community players
Te Whanganui a Tara | Wellington
SINGERS
Children
Greta Athfield
Sam Bate
Quinn Benton
Naia Biddle
Korban Butler
Anna Chainey
Maria Chainey
Eve Cloutman
Olivier Desiles
Eva Devaroe
Maia Docherty-Morrison
Anais Evans
Shakarnah Faiupu
Kinisa Faleulu
Levi Fonoti
Siobhan Fouhy
Mia Fuauli
Phoebe Haines
Gloria Iakopo
Siahi Ikiua-Pasi
Ethan Jeong-Ross
George Jeong-Ross
Isha Koya
Sophia Le
Lucy Le Quesne
Amaryah Lealiifano
Lisa Maister
Zoe Isabel Malabuyoc
Tsubaki Matsuoka
Aggie McLeod
Harvey McLeod
James Newell
Aurora Parekh
Mirren Robinson
Sylvia Ross
Allysa Mae Santos
Alina Sinclair
AJ Sirila-Mulipola
Ana Maria Sirila-Mulipola
Lachlan Tipi
Nova To’oala
Mabel Trousselot
Memory Tumuri-Smith
Lana Vaughan
Amarantha Wongcharupan
Jina Yoon
Renesmee
Youth
Katelyn Angsupaisal
Shae Atienza
Cyanne Austin-Rowe
Cassandra Bahr
Riana Bautista
Johniel Bocacao
Sean Brownlow
Joelle Bucal
Cadence Chung *
Joseph Clinton
Ana Cooper – Fuauli
Elia Correa
Amelie Denston
Taua Falaniko
Juliana Fonoti
Scarlett Fonoti
Kahu Gray
Brooke Harris
Sophie Harsant-Anderson
Alice Hoerara-Hunt
Abigail Hyde
Zoe Ioannou
Ava Jackson
Hattie Kempthorne Paulet
Nylah Lealiifano
Lily Lyon
April Marshall
Max Monaghan
Lola Naidoo
Scout Orange
Franciesca Ortega
Violet Patterson
Kev Pestaño
CharIe Rainey *
Tara Randall
Charlotte Secker
Teresa Shields
Grace Simmonds
Coraline Sinclair
Anna Smith
Emily Stephens
KC Sturm
Matthew Terry
Le’u Toleafoa
Annie Treadwell
Jillian Tupuse
Vivien Whyte
Harvey Williams
Anastasia Wongcharupan
Adult
Eleanor Ainsworth
Chris Anderson *
Ruth Armishaw *
Jojo Beech
Jacqui Bisley
Tanya Boelema
Victoria Buchanan
Angela Buchholz
Lizzie Callaghan
Patrick Coelho *
Catherine Conland
Tessa Coppard
Caitlin Dalzell
Andy Davies
Michael Dickens
Isabel Doudney-Morganti
Clarissa Dunn *
Eleanor Fitness
Skye Garmonsway
Sara Greig
Rachel Griffiths
Melanie Hart
Susan Hayworth
Natalie Hogg
Veronica Huntington
Jude Huygens
Renee Jina
Nina Koele
Matthew Landreth *
Meredith Lawry
Sarah Lineham
Yang Liu
Elena Louverdis
Nina Lowe
Svetlana Lushkott
Roger Marwick
Tom McLeod
Simone McMahon
Nick Mouat
Martha Palmer
Ivan Patterson
Abby Robertson
Christine Ross
Manjula Shivanandan
Tryphaena Sirila – Mulipola
Stirling Smidt
Clare Tattersall
Yvette Taylor
Vivienne Townsend
Bolke Water
Matilda Wickbom *
Kate Williams
Susi Woelz
* Freemasons Foundation NZ Opera Chorus Members
NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
accompanied by community players
Matthew Allison
Anastasia Bell *
David Bremner
Eleanor Carter
David Chickering
Joseph Craggs *
Ellen Deverall
Clara Dujakovic *
Sebastian Dunn
Donna Eldridge *
Leslie Eldridge *
Manuel Escauriaza
Jessica Goldbaum
Isabel Goodhue *
Alison Gordon *
Frances Graham *
Johanna Gruskin
Thomas Guldborg
Sasha Gunchenko
Alexander Hambleton
Mika Hayashi *
Sally Isaac
Mone Isoda *
David Johnson
Andrew Joyce
Oscar Lavën
Zoe Li *
David Liu *
Rebecca Luton
Annemarie Meijers
Brigid O’Meeghan
Robert Orr
Evie Patterson *
Shannon Pittaway
Rowan Prior
Leo Read *
Larry Reese
Sam Rich
Lenny Sakofsky
Campbell Smith *
Justin Sun
Simone Thomas *
Shadley van Wyk
Michelle Velvin
Cindy Waldron *
Andrew Weir *
Sam Zhu
* Community players
Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland
SINGERS
Children
Faith Bennett
Adri Bose
Alice Chen
Isla Dewil
Anna Du
Alice Ebbett
Cora Pareturere Eruera
Simeon Fale
Izzy Graham
Emerson Li
Naledi Mhuka
Lola Reid
Thomas Scorgie
Beau Scott
Lyra Stelter-Bowen
Phoenix Stelter-Bowen
Isabel Tablada
Jasmin Tablada
Joel Taylor
Kacey Wang
Michael Wang
Oscar Wang
Vanessa Wang
Logan Woods
Ella Wu
Jessica Zhang Song
Ella Zhou
Mia Zhou
Youth
Magdalene Apelu
Nina Brassington
Doreen Brown
Forest Cully
Ewan Emm
Amerika Fale
Amelia Foster
Hannah Goldwater
Felix Gould
Joyce Guo
Annie Hughes
Wainalei Ieremia
Lucy Jones
Nathan Kestle
Gordon Liu
Mike Liu *
Josephine Mavaega
Lijah Mavaega
Celena Monroe
Calista Ngati-Au *
Jemima Park
Louise Potter
Peter Pula
Daniel Ren
Peata Rhynd
Julienne Tovio
Josiah Tualamali’i
Talia-Rae Tupu
Eden Vaatstra *
Cassidy Ward
Susanna Weng
Te Ohorere Williams *
Adult
Fuatai Afele
Maia Amosa *
Daydreanne Anderson
Irena Angelovska
Sashe Angelovski *
Helen Ashton
Zoe Au
Caroline Baldwin
Rosemary Barrett
Ronald Delfinito Bate
Andrew Bolton *
Tilda Bostwick
Ken Burns
Jody Camp
Fetu Conquer
Dee Crooks
Christine Diggins
Courtney Edwards
Kim Edwards
Maria Ekblad
Elaine Fale
Toeoletitooaana Falealili
Sarah Ganly
Gabrielle Gommers
Nancy Gu
Marie Hansen
Talena Hansen
Jane Hunter
Lovi Kaitu’u
Kuljit Kaur
Carolyn Kestle
Irene Koonwaiyou
Clara Lee
Traude Leibbrand
Jeongwoo Lim
Alex Luneberg
Alison Mackie
Coralie Main
Toepo Makelani
Helen Marinovich
Teresa Marinovich
Oneal Mendoza *
Jemma Nissen
Alexi O’Brien
Sara O’Brien
Josephine Ogle
Christine Ozich
Matthew Payton
Barbara Peterson
Kathryn Potter
Vanessa Preston
Beverley Pullon *
Taliaoa Sanerivi
Claire Scholes *
Lucy Simpson
Neemia Soliola
Ellen Stelter-Bowen
Lili Taito
Maria Thomson
Siaosi Tone
Mark Turnock
David Wallace *
Ruobing Wang
Tina Wang
Michelle Williams
Edith Wong
Kiki Zhou
* Freemasons Foundation NZ Opera Chorus Members
AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA
accompanied by community players
George Allan *
Ingrid Bauer
Catherine Bold *
Luca Boyack *
Elodie Broad *
Sam Brough
Michael Camilleri *
Chen Cao
Begonia Chan
Lucas Clark *
Ruby Dautermann *
Harry Donald *
James Fry
David Garner
Eddie Grant *
Yang Rachel Guan Ebbett
Callum Hall
Alexander Heaton *
Katherine Hebley
Lexie Idio *
Dominic Jacquemard
Lies Janssens *
Alex Jeantou
Harry Kim *
Evgueny Lanchtchikov
Ting Ting Lee *
Jonah Levy
Ben Lovell Greene
Luca Manghi
Charlotte Marriott *
Vin Marsden *
Ben Matthews *
John Mietus
Drew Morgan
Gabrielle Pho
Taran Plamondon
Caleb Raymond *
Eric Renick
Martin Roberts
Diana Sanz
Phoebe Segers *
Rachael Shi *
Tim Sutton
Daiki Suzuki *
Riley Wang *
Camille Wells
Dylan Wilcox *
Bowen Yu *
Harper Zhang *
* Community players
