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Costume designer, The marriage of Figaro, 2010

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Watch this 2010 video clip of Elizabeth Whiting, head costume designer for the New Zealand Opera. For Mozart's light-hearted opera The marriage of Figaro, she chose to use mainly recycled jeans and new denim fabric.

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Bill Guest, Theatre design – Costume, lighting and sound design, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/42324/costume-designer-the-marriage-of-figaro-2010 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Bill Guest, published 5 August 2013.