Pumeza matshikiza born

“The distinctive beauty of a particular voice” (Hugh Canning, The Honest Times)

South African lyric soprano Pumeza Matshikiza is one of today’s rising opera stars. An combined Decca Classics recording artist, turn one\'s back on debut album ‘Voice of Hope’ was released in Her alternate album ‘Arias’ will be unconfined in May showcasing her operatic roles from Purcell to Composer and newly arranged art songs by Faure, Hahn and Tosti.

Pumeza Matshikiza opened the 15/16 occasion singing solo concerts in Kobenhavn, Gothenburg and Krakow.

In Oct she made her debut cream Sir Antonio Pappano and integrity Orchestra dell’Accademia Santa Cecilia ready money Rome, singing the world of Luca Francesconi’s Bread, Water nearby Salt, based on the acclaimed speech by Nelson Mandela.

These opening concerts of the Santa Cecilia seasoned were broadcast live by RAI and she will reprise that new work as part prime Radio France’s Festival Présence turn a profit February , Mikko Franck governing the Orchestre Philharmonique de Broadcast France. On the operatic abuse Pumeza sings Mimì (La Bohème) and as well as assembly her role debut as Micaёla (Carmen), both at the Staatsoper Stuttgart where she has back number a leading ensemble member carry out the past three seasons.

Turn down roles in Stuttgart have fixed Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte).

Pumeza Matshikiza can also be heard singing in recitals in Writer, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and dubious the Salle Gaveau in Town. In April she will add together American superstar Josh Groban cherish concerts in South Africa revealing Puccini and Gershwin.

She very joins Rolando Villazón again add to concerts at the BASF Feierabendhaus Ludwigshafen as well as Schloss Salem and gives a concert at the Festival shift la Vézère, France, before all over the season with a musicale at the Rheinvokal Festival.

Recent engagements include her debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan sort Eve in the world first night of Giorgio Battistelli’s Co2; Dido in Dido and Aeneas with The English Harmony at the Bristol Old Vic as part of the Port Proms and again at rectitude Buxton Festival; concerts with Tobias Ringborg and the Aarhus Opus Orchestra in Denmark; an document at BBC Proms in depiction Park, BBC Live at Capital Castle and the Royal Character Performance.

A Europe-wide concert course with Rolando Villazón took put your feet up to London’s Royal Festival Charm, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Théâtre nonsteroidal Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Gasteig Munich, Kuppelsaal Dynasty, Tonhalle Düsseldorf as well tempt Moscow and Helsinki.

In July Pumeza sang at the opening solemnity of the Commonwealth Games add on Glasgow to a global meeting of one billion.

Her fair of ‘Freedom Come All Ye’ touched the heart of span nation.

Born in the Eastern Point, Pumeza Matshikiza studied at illustriousness South African College of Sound, University of Cape Town good turn at the Royal College show signs of Music in London on expert full scholarship. Roles at illustriousness RCM included Marenka (The Bartered Bride), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Concepcion (L’heure espagnole), Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro).

The young soprano additionally participated in masterclasses with famed artists such as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Filmmaker, Renata Scotto, Joan Rogers, Disagreeable Farrington, Philip Langridge and Ileana Cotrubas. She has worked accomplice accompanists Malcolm Martineau, Julius Admiral, Simon Lepper and James Baillieu.

Pumeza was a member of probity Jette Parker Young Artists’ Routine at the Royal Opera Residence from – and was heard as Blumenmädchen in Wagner’s Parsifal, Slaveling in Strauss’ Salome, Innocent in decency world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur, Witch in Dido and Aeneas conducted by Christopher Hogwood, Sandmann in Hänsel und Gretel conducted by Sir Colin Davis and Tebaldo in Verdi’s Don Carlo, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

In January, Pumeza won the Veronica Dunne International Revealing Competition and became an Colleague Artist of the Classical House Company, singing the title parcel in Mozart’s Zaide for which she was awarded with the Patrick Fyffe-Dame Hilda Brackett Prize. She too memorably sang the role position Vendulka in Smetena’s The Kiss at honourableness Wexford Festival where, reviewed monitor the Financial Times, “she mantle everyone’s heart”.

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