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Manase Latu
Tenor
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Biography
Member of the Paris Opera’s Young Artists Ensemble
Tongan tenor Manase Latu, born in New Zealand, is a former student of the New Zealand Opera School and a former Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist at New Zealand Opera. He graduated from the University of Auckland and the Royal College of Music.
He completed the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where his roles included the Second Player in Brett Dean’s Hamlet, the First Armoured Man in The Magic Flute and a Trojan in Idomeneo. His other roles include Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the title role in Le Comte Ory with New Zealand Opera. He has won first prize in several competitions, including the Dame Malvina Major Napier Aria Competition, the New Zealand Aria Competition and the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition.
He also won second prize in the 2024 Lexus Song Quest. He has been a member of the Paris Opera’s Young Artists Ensemble since the 2024–2025 season.
At the Paris Opera: Rigoletto (Matteo Borsa, 2024); I Puritani (Sir Bruno Robertson, 2025); Don Carlos (Count of Lerma, 2025); Aida (Messenger, 2025); Hamlet (Marcellus, 2026).
