He's one of four opera singing brothers from the Hastings suburb of Flaxmere taking on the world. We speak with baritone Faamanu Fonoti-Fuimaono before he leaves Aotearoa to study singing in London.

Faamanu and his brother Jordan knock the big duet from Bizet's Pearl Fishes out of the park.

All four of the opera singing Bros in the one video.

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Darrell Daglish is an alphorn fanatic - all three and half metres of it. This is the story of how he realised the dream of bringing his own Swiss made Alphorn home to Aotearoa, and we're dropping it just in time for Swiss National Day, August 1st.

Watch a whole lot of alphorns here.

Watch Fabian Jud play the Leopold Mozart alphorn piece here

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Wellington Central Library has a new concert series for lovers of music and literature. We spoke to librarian and organiser Corrina Connor about "Between the Lines".

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He's from Hawkes Bay but he lives in Wales, he likes playing bad guys but off stage he's trying to be the best dad he can. We speak to Kiwi baritone Phillip Rhodes.

Watch Phillip Rhodes play the ultimate operatic bad guy here.

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He's still got a year and a half of school to go, but the 16 year old Auckland pianist Shan Liu already has a gig with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Watch a very young Shan Liu play a bit of Gershwin here.

Here's Shan playing Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

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She's one half of New Zealand's opera power couple, and soprano Amina Edris is back in Aotearoa with her husband Pene Pati to sing the title role in Massenet's Manon.

Watch Amina singing Puccini here.

With her hubby singing a little more Puccini.

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Composer, singer and conductor Luka Venter is one of only two people to make it into the Royal Academy of Music's postgraduate conducting programme

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She was drawn to his writing because it's intelligent and silly; like her music.

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Back in the UK, English born organist Catherine Anderson met a Timaru organ builder. Now she's a force of nature in the South Canterbury music scene.

Check out Catherine's organ credentials here.

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He's one of New Zealand's finest guitarists, but these days you're just as likely to hear David Long's music on the screen - large and small. In fact, the former Muttonbirds guitarist recently traveled to the USA to pick up an Emmy award for one of his latest TV scores.

Watch the trailer to Secrets at Red Rocks here

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