Pumeza matshikiza partner
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About
South African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, an exclusive Decca Artist since 2014, has performed at many of the leading opera houses across Europe and the United States and has released two solo recordings with Decca: “Voice of Hope,” her debut album combining well-known arias with traditional and popular African songs, and “Arias.” Throughout her career Pumeza has championed numerous contemporary operatic works.
This summer Pumeza performed in a concert in Paris’s Olympia Hall under the auspices of Le Festival de Paris and a world premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Good Morning, Beauty” at the Barbican in London as part of Classic Pride UK.
MoreSouth African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, an exclusive Decca Artist since 2014, has performed at many of the leading opera houses across Europe and the United States and has released two solo recordings with Decca: “Voice of Hope,” her debut album combining well-known arias with traditional and popular African songs, and “Arias.” Throughout her career Pumeza has championed numerous contemporary operatic works.
This summer Pumeza perf
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Biography Highlights
Upcoming
Role debuts in the title roles of Aida and Tosca at the Staatsoper Hannover, Bess and Serena Porgy and Bess (in concert), world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Good Morning, Beauty at the Barbican in London, a series of master classes at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, concert in Bucharest with Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov, a 4 city Christmas tour in the UK with Sir Bryn Terfel.
Recent
Debut at the Teatro alla Scala in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s CO2, staged by Robert Carsen, both Bess and Serena in a new production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Theater an der Wien. First US appearance as Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème at The Dallas Opera, followed by debuts in the same role both at the Semperoper Dresden and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. As an ensemble member of Staatsoper Stuttgart: Micaёla Carmen, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, and Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Mařenka in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride at Garsington Opera, the Fox in Ja
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Biography
“The distinctive beauty of a special voice” (Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times)
South African lyric soprano Pumeza Matshikiza is one of today’s rising opera stars. An exclusive Decca Classics recording artist, her debut album ‘Voice of Hope’ was released in 2014. Her second album ‘Arias’ will be released in May 2016 showcasing her operatic roles from Purcell to Puccini and newly arranged art songs by Faure, Hahn and Tosti.
Pumeza Matshikiza opened the 15/16 season singing solo concerts in Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Krakow. In October she made her debut with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, singing the world premiere of Luca Francesconi’s Bread, Water and Salt, based on the famous speech by Nelson Mandela. These opening concerts of the Santa Cecilia season were broadcast live by RAI and she will reprise this new work as part of Radio France’s Festival Présence in February 2016, Mikko Franck conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. On the operatic stage Pumeza sings Mimì (La Bohème) and as well as making her ro
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