Pretty Yende

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Pretty Yende (2013)

Pretty Yende (born March 6, 1985 in Piet Retief ) is a South African opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Yende studied at the South African College of Music , Opera School, and the University of Cape Town , where he has performed as Fiordiligi , Contessa and Magda in Puccini's La rondine . Yende also studied at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Milano. She first attracted international attention in 2009 when she took first place in all categories of the International Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna.

In 2010 she made her European debut in Riga as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen . In Mantua she sang La musica in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo , in Berlin and Oslo in Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin . This was followed by acclaimed appearances at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Berenice in Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro , as Barbarina , Norina and in 2012 as Musetta . In January 2013. pretty yende debuted with sensational success at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as the Comtesse Adèle in Rossini's Le comte Ory alongside Juan Diego Flórez . Yende was also acclaimed in this role in 2013 at the Theater an der Wien , when she stood in for the sick Cecilia Bartoli . In the 2013/14 season she made her debut as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen at the Los Angeles Opera and as Fiorilla in Rossini's Il turco in Italia at the Hamburg State Opera . In 2014 she returned to the Met as Pamina. In 2015 Yende appeared as Rosina at Den Norske Opera , as Norina at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and as Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore alongside Vittorio Grigolo at the State Opera in the Schiller Theater in Berlin. At the turn of the year she took over the patina at the Grand Théâtre de Genève . In 2016 she made her debut as Rosina at the Opéra National de Paris , as Elvira in Bellini's I puritani at the Zurich Opera and as Amira in the rarely performed opera Ciro in Babilonia at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

In a concert performance in Cape Town, Yende made her debut in 2013 as Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor , a role that she sang in February 2015 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin alongside Joseph Calleja . She has also given a series of concerts in Bad Kissingen, Düsseldorf, Turin, Riga and the Royal Opera House of Muscat in Oman. In 2014 she made her debut with recitals at New York's Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington. In April 2015 she sang together with the South African tenor Johan Botha at a charity concert for the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital at the Wiener Konzerthaus and in October of the same year an arias and duet program there with Juan Diego Flórez . On the occasion of the South African Human Rights Day , she and her school friend, the tenor Sunnyboy Dladla , gave a gala concert in the Cape Town Opera with works of bel canto on March 21, 2016 . In April 2016 she gave another bel canto evening, this time in Johannesburg with the young tenor Levy Sekgapane .

The announced debuts at the Washington National Opera (as Micaëla) and at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam as Contessa di Folleville in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims have not yet taken place. In the future, she will be seen and heard at the Met in a number of other roles - in the 2016/17 season as Rosina in Barbiere di Siviglia and as Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette .

Yende lives in Milan and continues to study with Mariella Devia .

Quote

“Basically, the bad times for the black population have lasted for centuries, and the good times haven't been around that long. It will take time for the proportions of whites and blacks to equalize. But it's getting better. South Africa has to constantly work on itself, has to develop further, that is Nelson Mandela's legacy. But the wounds from the past do not go away by themselves, because they are deep. "

- Pretty Yende : Interview with the daily newspaper Der Standard (Vienna), 2015

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Puccini

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Awards

Web links

Commons : Pretty Yende  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b medici.tv: Pretty Yende , accessed on July 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ Peter Jarolin: "Only ten seconds - and suddenly the light went on" , the shooting star of the opera scene can be seen again in Vienna on Saturday. A portrait., Kurier (Vienna), March 12, 2014, accessed on July 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Pretty Yende - Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin . Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Cecelia Porter: Buzzed-about South African soprano Pretty Yende at the Kennedy Center , Washington Post , November 7, 2014, accessed July 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Stefan Ender: Pretty Yende: Concentration on the good , Der Standard (Vienna), April 17, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ Broadway World: Cape Town Opera Announces 2016 Season, Including SALOME, THE MAGIC FLUTE and CARMEN , December 11, 2015, accessed July 29, 2016.
  7. ↑ Rosebank Killarney Gazette (Johannesburg): Pretty Yende in concert , April 8, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016.
  8. ^ Belvedere Competition: Winners . Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ Nadia Neophytou: Sublime soprano , news24, February 24, 2013, accessed on July 30, 2016.
  10. ^ Operalia: Winners 2011 . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  11. ↑ Kultiversum , accessed on August 10, 2016
  12. ↑ List of recipients of the award 2009 (English), accessed on November 27, 2015
  13. ↑ International Opera Award , official website, archive for 2014 (with all nominees and all award winners), accessed August 11, 2016.
  14. ↑ International Opera Awards 2018 . Retrieved April 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Yende, Pretty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Piet Retief