Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono

New Zealand-born Samoan tenor Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono joins the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2025/26 Season. He is a graduate of the New Zealand Opera School, where he received the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Scholarship Award and the Susie and Guy Haddleton Emerging Artist Scholarship, and completed his Master’s at Te Pae Kokako: The Aotearoa New Zealand Opera Studio at the University of Waikato. Fonoti-Fuimaono was the winner of the 2024 Iosefa Enari Memorial Award, 2023 Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Award, 2023 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition and the 2022 Lockwood New Zealand Aria Competition, as well as the recipient of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Scholarship at the 2022 Lexus Song Quest. He was also a 2022 DMMF Studio Artist with New Zealand Opera. Recent performances include Auckland Opera Studio’s Verdi Meets Puccini gala concert, Gerontius/Soul in The Dream of Gerontius (Auckland Choral) and solo tenor  in Mozart’s Requiem (Dunedin Symphony Orchestra). He was also a Guest Artist in Celebrate Christmas (Auckland Philharmonia) and appeared in the world premiere of Christopher Tin’s To Shiver the Sky with Brass (Hamilton City Brass). Roles with New Zealand Opera include Tupaia (Tim Finn’s Ihitai Avei’a), Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Malcolm (Macbeth) and Gastone (La traviata). 2025/26 Royal Opera roles include Danieli (The Sicilian Vespers), Pang (Turandot), Borsa (Rigoletto) and First Philistine (Samson et Dalila). Cover roles include Rodolfo (La bohème).