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Bryan Drake

Baritone Bryan Drake is pictured with fellow soloists, the Dunedin Choral Society and 4YA Concert Orchestra at a 1947 performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijahat the Dunedin Town Hall in 1947. The following year Drake made his operatic debut.

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Hocken Collections, University of Otago

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Peter Walls, Classical musicians – Leading baritones and basses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/45395/bryan-drake (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Peter Walls, published 3 June 2014.