A Night At the Opera with Pumeza Matshikiza & Njabulo Madlala
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Jan van Riebeck Drive (R301)
Wellington, WC 7655 South AfricaDescription
You are cordially invited to A Night At the Opera concert. Hosted by the Diemersfontein Wines Excellence out of Africa Trust, this is a rare opportunity to hear two South African opera stars, soprano Pumeza Matshikiza and baritone Njabulo Madlala in concert on home soil.
This will be a blissful evening of beautiful music from different operas featuring arias, duets and excerpts from operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Bellini and more. Pumeza and Njabulo will be joined by friends to sing in aid of Voices of South Africa Trust, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education, mentoring and inspiring the next generation of opera stars out of Africa.
Please RSVP so you may be contacted by Hazel Kelly to confirm Booking.
Tickets are R425 including a welcome and interval drink.
R800 for all above plus wine tasting and dinner after the concert.
Accommodation is available at reduced rates on request.
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Call: Hazel Kelly - 021 8645050
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Njabulo Madlala was born in Durban, South Africa. In 2002 he won a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama for graduate and postgraduate studies. He went on to study for a further year at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice with Dennis O’Neill. Additionally, Njabulo has been a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Samling Artist and a young artist at the Ravinia International Festival in the USA.
Among his accolades Njabulo is the winner of the 2010 Kathleen Ferrier Award, 2012 Singers Section Final of the Royal Overseas League Competition, the 2012 Lorna Viol Memorial Prize, the Royal Overseas League Trophy for the most outstanding musician from overseas and Standard Bank Young Artist Award for 2014.
Highlights in recent seasons include his main stage debut at the Royal Opera House in Shostakovich’s The Nose; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in his debut with the Minnesota Orchestra; Schaunard La bohème and Bartolomeo Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo both for English Touring Opera; and his Norwegian debut in Orlando Gough’s Voices and Votes for the Bergen National Opera.
Operatic engagements include the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni (Mid Wales Opera); Don FernandoFidelio, Bello La fanciulla del West and Schaunard La bohème (all for Opera Holland Park); Whale and Elephant How the Whale Became and Master of the Thames Boat Heart of Darkness (Royal Opera House, Linbury Theatre); Kammersinger Intermezzo (Buxton Festival Opera); Peachum The Threepenny Opera(Hawaii Performing Arts Festival); Scarpia Tosca (Grange Park Opera’s ‘Rising Stars’); Rangwan in Delius's Koanga (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); Don Giulio in Rossini's L’ajo nell’imbarazzo (Barga International Festival) and Mel in Tippett's The Knot Garden (Montepulciano Festival); Escamillo (Winslow Hall Opera); MoralèsCarmen (Dorset Opera Festival); and Porgy Porgy and Bess at the Cheltenham Festival.
In recital Njabulo has performed with Roger Vignoles (Cambridge Festival and Lugo Festival in Spain), Julius Drake (Mananan Festival), Williams Vann (Oxford Lieder Festival & Ripon International Festival), Simon Lepper (Wigmore Hall Monday Concert Series and Buxton Festival), Llŷr Williams (Gower Festival) and with James Baillieu (Lake District Music Festival). His debut CDSongs of Home was released in autumn 2013 on the Champs Hill Records label.
Concert highlights include Mozart Requiem (English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra); Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski); Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra); Belshazzar’s Feast at the Three Choirs Festival (Philharmonia Orchestra) and Royal Festival Hall (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra); Messiah(Philharmonia Orchestra); Elijah at the Snape Maltings; J. S. Bach Ich habe genug (Ten Tors Orchestra); Dido and Aeneas at (Wimbledon International Music Festival); and concerts with the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra under Arjan Tien and Richard Cock.
In the current season Njabulo performs Jim in a lavish new production of Porgy and Bess for English National Opera and the Dutch National Opera. Later in the season he performs Aeneas in Dido, a new co-production between English National Opera and the Unicorn Theatre.