Baritone Kawiti Waetford is on a mission to create more opera pieces in te reo Māori. Opera singer Kawiti Waetford (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Wai, Ngāpuhi) is taking reo Māori opera to Kerikeri next weekend. Such concerts are rare, and this weekend’s will be particularly poignant, as Atakohu Middleton reports. A concert that fuses opera masterpieces in their original languages with te reo Māori is touring the regions and will be in Kerikeri next weeke…
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