Siphokazi Molteno
Mezzo from South Africa - 31 years old.
Siphokazi Molteno from South Africa
Performing Smanie implacabili from Cosi fan tutte by Mozart.
I come from East London, South Africa and studied music at Nelson Mandela University and the University of Cape Town.
As a young artist with Cape Town Opera, I sang Dorabella Così fan tutte, Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi and the Third Lady Die Zauberflöte.
For my performance as Dorabella at Cape Town Opera, I won the Fleur Du Cap’s Best Performance in an Opera (Female) Award in both 2020 and 2022. I also received the 2020 Rising Star Encouragement Award in the Glyndebourne Opera Cup and received both the Ana María Martínez Encouragement Award and the Audience Choice Award at Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition in 2017.
During the 2021/22 season, I sang Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia at Saratoga Opera and was the mezzo-soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 with Camerata Notturna.
I’m currently in my second year as a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. I make my Met debut during the 2022/23 season as Flora La traviata and as Sister Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmélites.
Recent concert engagements include Haydn’s Theresienmesse and Mozart’s Sparrow Mass with the New Choral Society, Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai and Mozart’s Coronation Mass with St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, and Verdi’s Requiem with Dar Choral Society, Tanzania.
When I'm not singing opera, I like to cook. I also love trying out different restaurants.
Siphokazi Molteno
Mezzo, 31 oed, De Affrica
Rydw i’n dod o East London yn Ne Affrica ac wedi astudio cerddoriaeth ym Mhrifysgol Nelson Mandela a Phrifysgol Cape Town.
Fel artist ifanc gyda Cape Town Opera, mi wnes i ganu Dorabella yn Così fan tutte, Romeo yn I Capuleti e i Montecchi a’r Drydedd Fenyw yn Die Zauberflöte.
Ar gyfer fy mherfformiad fel Dorabella yn Cape Town Opera, enillais Wobr Fleur Du Cap am y Perfformiad Gorau mewn Opera gan Fenyw yn 2020 a 2022. Hefyd, enillais Wobr Anogaeth Rising Stars yn 2020 yng Nghwpan Opera Glyndebourne a Gwobr Anogaeth Ana María Martínez a Gwobr Dewis y Gynulleidfa yng Nghystadleuaeth Eleanor McCollum yr Houston Grand Opera yn 2017.
Yn ystod tymor 2021/22, fe wnes i ganu Rosina yn Il barbiere di Siviglia gydag Opera Saratoga a fi oedd yr unawdydd mezzo-soprano yn Symffoni Rhif 9 Beethoven gyda Camerata Notturna.
Rydw i ar hyn o bryd yn fy ail flwyddyn fel aelod o Raglen Datblygu Artistiaid Ifanc Lindemann. Rydw i’n ymddangos am y tro cyntaf yn y Met yn ystod tymor 2022/23 fel Flora yn La traviata ac fel y Chwaer Mathilde yn Dialogues des Carmélites.
Mae fy nghyngherddau diweddar yn cynnwys Theresienmesse gan Haydn ac Offeren Sparrow gan Mozart gyda’r New Choral Society, Missa Sancti Nicolai gan Haydn ac Offeren y Coron gan Mozart gydag Eglwys Gadeiriol St George, Cape Town, a Requiem Verdi gyda Dar Choral Society, Tanzania.
Pan nad ydw i’n canu opera, rydw i’n hoffi coginio. Rydw i hefyd wrth fy modd yn rhoi cynnig ar wahanol fwytai.
