PRETTY YENDE South African Opera Star dressed by TOSCA NEW YORK at her CARNEGIE HALL New York recital. © 2020 Africa.com. Pretty Yende, a 27 year old soprano from South Africa, who has been causing stirs in operatic circles from Europe to Australia, landed on the grandest stage of her life, at the epicenter of opera aficionados: she debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City this week. Pretty Yende It’s the sheer brilliance of her attack that leaves audiences around the world clamouring for more."
Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena, and Mariusz Kwiecien star in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles New York, NY (November 6, 2018)—Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) returns to the Metropolitan Opera for seven performances November 14–December 8, 2018.Bizet’s opera tells the story of a beautiful Hindu temple priestess pursued by rival pearl divers competing for … The Milan-based opera singer has performed alongside music heavyweights such as Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion and graced the stages of major opera houses such as the La Scala Opera House in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and Liceu Opera in … A feast for the ears (Kurier), this production is presented with subtitles in Italian, English, German, French, Japanese, and Korean.The Lullaby Project pairs pregnant women and new mothers with professional artists to write and sing personal lullabies for their babies, supporting maternal health, aiding child development, and strengthening the bond between parent and child.On April 20, 2018, Decca Gold (Universal Music Group) releases an album of original lullabies written by Lullaby Project participants and performed by leading artists, including Pretty Yende, Joyce DiDonato, Fiona Apple, the Brentano String Quartet, Lawrence Brownlee, Rosanne Cash, Janice Freeman, Rhiannon Giddens, Angélique Kidjo, Patti LuPone, Natalie Merchant, Dianne Reeves, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Aug 17th, 2020 Yende wants to make you cry.

She had an unfortunate fall on stage, which was widely reported, but she recovered well, and even the critic from the New York Times said of her performance, “(she) delivered some of the most difficult coloratura passages with scintillating precision, evidently at ease in this repertory.”Thanks for reading and for your interest in Africa. Operatic soprano Pretty Yende is arguably one of South Africa’s greatest cultural exports today. The recording was produced by Glen Roven, Ira Yuspeh, and Mitch Yuspeh.Presenting Pretty Yende's second solo album - an exploration of dreams in operas and of living in one herself.The celebrated ‘mad scene’ from Lucia, a role which she will also perform in New York next season, was the starting point of her new recording ‘Dreams’. The Accademia Teatro is part of the renowned La Scala opera house, inaugurated in 1778, and was the training ground for most of Italy’s, and the world’s, greatest operatic artists.The South African singer received great reviews from most critics for her Metropolitan Opera debut.