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Good Morning POU! Let’s take a look at some classical music moments. I promise you’ll love these!
I saw this post and fell in love with the voices of Nadine Sierra & Pretty Yende.
I've always heard the Flower Duet, but never seen it sung live like this and it's exquisite and delightfully lovely. 🥹 pic.twitter.com/bwcFvkBUXL
— Sassington, M.C. (@MissSassbox) June 14, 2024
About this amazing voice – Pretty Yende OIS (born 6 March 1985) is a South African operatic coloratura soprano. She has performed leading roles at opera houses internationally, including La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera. She performed at the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.
Born in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, she grew up with two brothers and a sister; the family, also with the grandparents, sang often. Yende was inspired to learn opera at age 16 after seeing a British Airways TV advertisement that featured the Flower Duet from Lakmé. She subsequently enrolled at the South African College of Music, where her teachers included Virginia Davids, and from which she graduated cum laude. She also graduated from the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. Her younger sister also became an opera singer.
Yende won two prizes in the 2008 International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch: the Prize of the Province of North Brabant, and the Engagement Opera Riga, which gave her the opportunity to take part in the new year concert at the Latvian National Opera in December. She won first prize in operetta and opera at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition 2009 in Vienna. In 2010, Yende won prizes at three competitions: first prize at the Vincenzo Bellini International Competition, first prize at the International Singing Competition of Savonlinna Opera Festival (shared), and sixth prize at the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition. In 2011, she won first prize at Operalia, held that year in Moscow.
Yende made her Metropolitan Opera (Met) debut in New York City on 17 January 2013, in the role of Adèle in Rossini’s Le comte Ory, stepping in for Nino Machaidze; she performed alongside tenor Juan Diego Florez in the title role She subsequently stepped in for Cecilia Bartoli in the same role at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. In July 2014, she returned to La Scala for Le comte Ory, alternating as Adèle with Aleksandra Kurzak. Later that year she returned to the Met as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, singing between performances at the Richard Tucker Gala and at Carnegie Hall for a solo recital. In 2015 she portrayed Susanna in Mozart’s Figaro at the Los Angeles Opera. In 2016 she appeared as Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and the title role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Paris Opera. In 2018, she portrayed Adina in Bartlett Sher’s production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Met.
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Yende is credited as a primary artist for the “Ode Ă€ L’HumanitĂ©” (Ode to Humanity, previously called Aria) track on the Yanni/Plácido Domingo collaboration Inspirato (2014).
In 2023 Yende performed at the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla. She sang “Sacred Fire”, a piece written by Sarah Class to a text by Grahame Davies for the Coronation. In 2024 she appeared first at the Oper Frankfurt, as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, alongside Lawrence Zazzo in the title role. Portraying the powerful intellectual African Queen made her feel proud of her continent.