After the final show from the New Zealand Opera School on Saturday night three scholarship students were announced at a late supper at Heritage House.
Winning the coveted Dame Sister Mary Leo scholarship was mezzo soprano Katie Trigg from Hamilton.
School director Jonathan Alver said Trigg had been a very popular and unanimous choice by the directors and tutors of the school.
Young Auckland baritone Samuel Downes was awarded the "spirit of the school" trophy, an award set up by former chairman Bryan Wyness who had died five years ago.
Downes was also awarded his fees for next year's school, Alver said.
