Photo: Supplied: New Zealand Opera
It's the 250th year of Jane Austen's birth, and New Zealand Opera is taking its production of Mansfield Park to the South Island.
Kiwi soprano Michaela Cadwgan is about to star as Fanny Price when the production hits Christchurch and Dunedin from the 1st - 6th of April after a highly successful season last year in Wellington and Auckland.
Michaela has had a stellar rise since she graduated from the New Zealand School of Music, moving on to the New Zealand Opera School - where she won the Dame Sister Mary Leo Foundation Award.
Last year she performed in over 40 shows and concerts with Victorian Opera and will be back with them this year after winning the company's Opera Prize.
Michaela joins Kathryn to talk about her career - and the continuing allure of Austen.
