The New Zealand Opera Training School Trust
CC26755
The New Zealand Opera Training School Trust, CC 26755, was established in 1994 to deliver New
Zealand’s premiere residential training course for budding New Zealand opera singers. Bequestors
will contribute to the achievement of its mission:
"To provide a period of intensive vocal,
language, movement and acting training with tutors of international reputation in order to give our
emerging opera singers the very best tuition possible and to provide a taste of the disciplines
required to succeed in the fast-growing, competitive and demanding world of opera performance."
Founder, Donald Trott is the School's executive chairman. with international director and former
New Zealand Opera chief executive Jonathan Alver as Director.
School alumni include renowned
international tenor Simon O’Neill, Madeleine Pierard (Lexus Song Quest winner 2005), Phillip
Rhodes (Lexus Song Quest Winner 2007), Amitai Pati (Lexus Song Quest winner 2012) and Stephen Diaz
(Lexus Song Quest runner-up 2012).
Bequests contribute towards student scholarships, exposure
to the world’s best tuition possible, and the promotion of Opera as a career.
: I give and bequeath the sum of $_____________ (or)
__________ % of my estate, (or)
residue of my estate,
free of all charges, to The New Zealand Opera Training School Trust, CC
26755
The official receipt of the Director or other authorised officer of the Trustee is an
absolute discharge to my executors