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Part opera, part song, full story.

Presented as part of The Lambeth Fringe 2026, acclaimed Samoan tenor and storyteller Sani Muliaumasealiʻi returns following a sold-out London season with Cabaret Frangipani: a radiant evening of opera, original song and Pacific storytelling.

When the Covid pandemic left Sani luxuriously stranded in rural Aotearoa New Zealand, far from the vibrant London theatre scene he had built his career around, he found himself becoming what he jokingly calls an artistic “Covid refugee”, a very first-world problem, perhaps, but one that demanded reinvention.

Sani went on to become the first Pacific presenter on RNZ Concert, New Zealand’s classical music station, winning audiences nationwide with his warmth, wit and infectious love of music. Yet amid the beauty and tranquillity of the countryside, the performer within never stopped singing.

Spanning continents, musical traditions and the occasional tenorial mood swing, Cabaret Frangipani journeys from the soaring melodies of Puccini, Leoncavallo and Gershwin to original songs from Sani’s acclaimed musicals Kava Girls and Baba the Bad Baboon.