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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: PRETTY YENDE PLAYLIST
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: various
- Recorded: various
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Florez, Javier Camarena, Benjamin Bernheim, Nadine Sierra, Matthew Polenzani, Piotr Beczala, Clementine Margaine, Ildebrando d'Archangelo, John Osborn, Francesco Demuto, Sunnyboy Diadla, Andrea Bocelli, Renee Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Stephen Costello, Jonathan Tetelman, Lawrence Brownlee, Mauro Peter
- Conductor: various
- Orchestra: various
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OoV
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Pretty Yende OIS (born 6 March 1985) is a South African operatic 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.
Early life and education
Born in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, 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, Nombulelo Yende, is also 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 first prizes at three competitions: 1st Vincenzo Bellini International Competition, 1st International Singing Competition of Savonlinna Opera Festival (shared), 6th Leyla Gencer Voice Competition. In 2011, she won first prize at Operalia, held that year in Moscow.
Career
Yende performed Berenice in L’occasione fa il ladro (2010) and Elvira in L’italiana in Algeri (2011) as part of the academy at La Scala, where she sang four roles next season: the Priestess (Aida), Barbarina (The Marriage of Figaro), Norina (Don Pasquale), Musetta (La bohème). Alongside Bryan Adams and Andrea Bocelli, she appeared in the closing concert of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on 9 July 2010, two days before the final. She was featured in Bocelli’s Live in Central Park concert on 15 September 2011, which was aired on PBS’s Great Performances and physically released as Concerto: One Night in Central Park. They united in the concert entitled Amore e perdono held by the Fetzer Institute at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi on 22 September 2012, which was aired on Rai 1 on 29 September 2012.
Yende made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York City on 17 January 2013, in the role of Adèle in Rossini’s Le comte Ory, as a substitute for Nino Machaidze. She subsequently stepped in for Cecilia Bartoli in the same role at the Theater an der Wien. In July 2014, she returned to La Scala for Le comte Ory, alternating Countess Adèle with Aleksandra Kurzak. Later in the year, she returned to New York for The Magic Flute (Pamina) at the Met, and between the performances she sang at the Richard Tucker Gala and made her Carnegie Hall debut in a solo recital. In 2015 she portrayed Susanna in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Los Angeles Opera. In 2016 she portrayed Rosina in The Barber of Seville and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Paris Opera.
Yende is credited as a primary artist for the “Ode À L’Humanité” (Ode to Humanity, previously called Aria) track on the Yanni/Plácido Domingo collaboration Inspirato (2014).
In 2018, she portrayed Adina in Bartlett Sher’s production of L’elisir d’amore at the Metropolitan Opera, which ran through January and February.
In 2023, Yende performed at the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla. She sang “Sacred Fire”, a piece written by Sarah Class for the Coronation.
Quoted from Wikipedia