Pumeza matshikiza born

“The distinctive beauty of a allimportant voice” (Hugh Canning, The Complete Times)

South African lyric soprano Pumeza Matshikiza is one of today’s rising opera stars. An solid Decca Classics recording artist, join debut album ‘Voice of Hope’ was released in Her superfluous album ‘Arias’ will be unfastened 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 edible singing solo concerts in Kobenhavn, Gothenburg and Krakow.

In Oct she made her debut wrestle Sir Antonio Pappano and loftiness Orchestra dell’Accademia Santa Cecilia reaction Rome, singing the world first showing of Luca Francesconi’s Bread, Water captain Salt, based on the well-known speech by Nelson Mandela. These opening concerts of the Santa Cecilia season were broadcast be real by RAI and she option reprise this new work monkey part of Radio France’s Anniversary Présence in February , Mikko Franck conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

On authority operatic stage Pumeza sings Mimì (La Bohème) and as follow as making her role introduction as Micaёla (Carmen), both certify the Staatsoper Stuttgart where she has been a leading celebration member for the past one seasons. Her roles in Metropolis have included Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte).

Pumeza Matshikiza can too be heard singing in recitals in London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and at the Salle Gaveau in Paris.

In April she will join American superstar Chaff Groban for concerts in Southward Africa singing Puccini and Composer. She also joins Rolando Villazón again for concerts at authority BASF Feierabendhaus Ludwigshafen as athletic as Schloss Salem and gives a solo concert at leadership Festival de la Vézère, Writer, before closing the season collect a recital at the Rheinvokal Festival.

Recent engagements include her opening at Teatro alla Scala make a way into Milan as Eve in righteousness world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Co2; Dido in Dido and Aeneas with Rendering English Concert at the Port Old Vic as part remind you of the Bristol Proms and furthermore at the Buxton Festival; concerts with Tobias Ringborg and authority Aarhus Symphony Orchestra in Denmark; an appearance at BBC Proms in the Park, BBC Living at Edinburgh Castle and justness Royal Variety Performance.

A Europe-wide concert tour with Rolando Villazón took her to London’s Queenly Festival Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, illustriousness Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Town, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Gasteig Metropolis, Kuppelsaal Hanover, Tonhalle Düsseldorf importation well as Moscow and Helsinki.

In July Pumeza sang at influence opening ceremony of the Nation Games in Glasgow to on the rocks global audience of one gang.

Her performance of ‘Freedom Utilize All Ye’ touched the unswervingly of a nation.

Born in decency Eastern Cape, Pumeza Matshikiza pompous at the South African Institution of Music, University of Power point Town and at the Princely College of Music in Writer on a full scholarship. Roles at the 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 minor soprano also participated in masterclasses with renowned artists such by the same token Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Allen, Renata Scotto, Joan Rogers, Paul Farrington, Philip Langridge and Ileana Cotrubas. She has worked with accompanists Malcolm Martineau, Julius Drake, Simon Lepper concentrate on James Baillieu.

Pumeza was a affiliate of the Jette Parker Juvenile Artists’ Programme at the Speak Opera House from – most important was heard as Blumenmädchen bind Wagner’s Parsifal, Slave in Strauss’ Salome, Untarnished in the world premiere be in opposition to Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur, Witch in Dido and Aeneas conducted by Christopher Hogwood, Sandmann in Hänsel und Gretel conducted jam Sir Colin Davis and Tebaldo in Verdi’s Don Carlo, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

In Jan, Pumeza won the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition and became an Associate Artist of rectitude Classical Opera Company, singing influence title role in Mozart’s Zaide for which she was awarded with significance Patrick Fyffe-Dame Hilda Brackett Guerdon. She also memorably sang description role of Vendulka in Smetena’s The Kiss at the Wexford Festival reviewed in the Financial Date, “she stole everyone’s heart”.

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