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Pumeza Matshikiza is a South African operatic soprano....
Pumeza Matshikiza (born in Cape Town), often billed professionally as Pumeza, is a South-African operatic soprano.
Pumeza Matshikiza
South-African operatic soprano (born 1979)
Pumeza Matshikiza (born 27 February 1979[1][2][3]) is a South African operatic soprano.[4] A graduate of the Royal College of Music and a member of the Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists Programme from 2007 to 2009, she made her début as a flower maiden in Parsifal and has gone on to sing leading soprano roles with Stuttgart Opera.
Matshikiza has released two solo albums on the Decca Classics label.
Career
Matshikiza was born in Lady Frere, South Africa. She studied at the University of Cape TownCollege of Music, graduated cum laude under Professor Virginia Davids, then at the Royal College of Music, London, with a full three-year scholarship[5] and in the Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where she made her début as a flower maiden in Parsifal.[6] Winner of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition in