Levy Sekgapane

Tenor from South Africa
1990, December 16th in Kroonstad -

Levy Sekgapane is a South African operatic tenor, born on 16 December 1990 in Kroonstad, Free State. He studied with Kamal Khan and Hanna van Niekerk at the South African College of Music of the University of Cape Town, made his stage debut in Chemnitz in 2014 and in 2015 joined the Young Ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden. A bel canto specialist, he won first prize at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition and at the Montserrat Caballé International Singing Competition in 2015, then first prize at Plácido Domingo's Operalia in 2017, and was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list for Arts & Culture in 2018. His signature roles are Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, which he has sung at the Glyndebourne Festival, the Opéra national de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Opéra national de Bordeaux, and Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola. His repertoire also includes Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore and roles by Rossini, Donizetti, Mozart and Bach, and he has appeared at the Bavarian State Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, Teatro Massimo Palermo, the Salzburg Festival, the Rossini Opera Festival and Wexford Festival Opera. Source: Rondo DB

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

2019-08-02

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)