The McCormick Opera Award
Mon, 02 Sept
|Mercury Theatre
This award is presented through the Perpetual Guardian Foundation and organised and administered by a designated committee of the Auckland Opera Studio. The award comes under the terms of the Patricia McCormick Estate.
Time & Location
02 Sept 2019, 6:00 pm
Mercury Theatre, 9 Mercury Ln, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
About the Event
Finalists of the competition will perform two items of their own choice back to back and (after a short interval) one piece the judges choose.
The winner of The McCormick Opera Award will receive an award of NZD $20,000 net from the Patricia McCormick Memorial Scholarship through Perpetual Guardian. A second prize of $7,000 and third prize of $3,000 will also be awarded. A further prize of $2,000 will also be awarded to a singer, who in the judge’s opinion, has demonstrated particular promise and potential. This may be awarded to any entrant. All those singers who are finalists but not prizewinners will receive an award of $200.
Tickets will be available on iTicket from July 1st 2019.