Portraitist Felicity Priest is tucked beside the stage of the Wanganui Collegiate School auditorium amidst her easels, brushes and paints.
For her it is like a tiny heaven where she not only gets to study her subject, she creates her art to the some of opera's greatest arias. For onstage each day for two weeks, New Zealand Opera students are working with their coaches.
International coaches Cesar Ulloa and Della Jones are the subjects of Felicity's portraits.
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She is also trying to find time to capture young scholarship student Natasha Wilson.