Operastar Korea: 16 March 2012 (videos)

UPDATED including videos - see below

Hayley Westenra will perform and make the presentation to the winner of Operastar (Korea) [ 오페라스타 2012 ] when she appears on NTV there in the final, on Friday 16 March 2012. Many thanks to Hayley's management Bandana, who have given us the following statement:

'Hayley will be appearing on a live TV show, broadcast from Seoul, Korea, on Friday. Called Operastar, it is based on a similar format to the BBC's Popstar To Operastar and Hayley will be performing live as well as presenting the trophy to the winner.'

Two websites we can watch for further information are:

TVN Korea: http://tvn.lifestyler.co.kr/ENTER/operastar2012/index.asp#

Celtic Woman Korea: http://celticwoman.kr/159

UPDATED

Hayley's appearance on Operastar 2012 (Korea) included a solo performance of Lascia Chi'o Pianga from Handel's opera Rinaldo; a trio performance of You Raise Me Up (by Secret Garden) along with the two Operastar finalists; the announcement of the competition winner and presentation of the trophy. The winner was soprano Park Gi Yeong [ 박기영 ] and the runner up was tenor Son Ho Yeong [ 손호영 ] both of whom you can see in the videos along with Hayley.

The first of three HD videos below  is a 12 minute sequence of Hayley's entire involvement in the final and was uploaded to Youtube by channel zpfxlrdnajs (Andy) who is a member of the website Celtic Woman Korea and who is also a member of the HWI forum; thank you Andy. He has kindly agreed to let us extract separately the two performances from that video and to upload them to our own Youtube channel hwivid. They are also embedded below.

VIDEO: Hayley Westenra guests on 'Operastar 2012' (HD - complete)
© NTV Korea 16 March 2012 (12m 02s)

VIDEO: Hayley Westenra sings Lascia Ch'io Pianga on 'Operastar 2012' (HD)
© NTV Korea 16 March 2012 (3m 51s)

VIDEO: Hayley Westenra & 'Operastar 2012' finalists - You Raise Me Up (HD)
© NTV Korea 16 March 2012 (4m 04s)

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