SPRING 2007 Marie Te Hapuku is a featured singer on Opera America's website, singing in her acclaimed performance as Lina in Verdi's STIFFELIO.
Enjoy performance footage of Marie Te Hapuku on YouTube.com.
WINTER 2007
Marie welcomes the birth of her second child.
SUMMER 2006 Marie Te Hapuku to perform VERDI REQUIEM at the New Hampshire Music Festival August 10 & 11.
SPRING 2006 Marie Te Hapuku returns to Sarasota Opera for their Spring Gala Concert, where she will be singing Verdi, Puccini, and Mascagni with the Sarasota Opera Chorus and Symphony.
WINTER 2006 Marie Te Hapuku receives a glowing review for her performance in the VERDI REQUIEM with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.
The Post-Standard writes:
". . .a striking voice - unified in its pleasing color, capable of tremendous range, strong enough to easily soar over the combined sonic mass of the orchestra and chorus, and used with acute intelligence. Her blend with the other soloists was admirable, and her sense of the dramatic in her solos was unerring."
DECEMBER 2005 Marie Te Hapuku is the guest artist at the Fifth Annual Sarasota Opera Ball.
AUGUST 2005 Don Giovanni reviewed in Australia's OPERA~OPERA Magazine
Singers' improved skills on show in Don Giovanni "One of the delights of this production was the opportunity it afforded to judge the development of certain singers.
JUNE 2005 NBR New Zealand Opera debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni
Marie Te Hapuku is the cover story profile for NEW ZEALAND OPERA NEWS: New Zealand singer returns from New York to sing Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni "My first job was a sort-of custodian on Temple Square - where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang. Frederica von Stade came to sing with the choir and since my boss knew I was a singer I was made Frederica’s personal assistant during her visit. She pulled me into her room and started talking about singing, and what I should be doing - I should audition with Lofti Mansouri (General Director at San Francisco Opera), get into the Merola Programme there . . ."