The King and Queen Consort have chosen the performers for the upcoming coronation and South Africa’s Pretty Yende was selected to sing, an incredible honour.
London, United Kingdom (22 February 2023) – South African-born Soprano Pretty Yende has been invited to perform at the King’s coronation at Westminster Abbey in May this year. The high honour is earning the South African star and front-page headlines worldwide.
Born in 1985 in a remote town in South Africa, Pretty Yende was first introduced to operatic music at the age of sixteen when hearing the Flower Duet from Delibes’s opera Lakmé in a British Airways commercial. At that moment she decided to become an opera singer.
Years later Yende is one of opera’s fastest-rising stars, a star of Milan’s La Scala, New York’s Met and as a top billing at London’s Covent Garden.
Yende rose to the top of the opera world with unparalleled speed, with competition successes and engagements at the world’s foremost opera houses.
Yende made her professional operatic debut at the Latvian National Theatre in Riga as Micaela in Carmen and has since been seen at nearly all of the major theatres of the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Alla Scala, Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and many others.
Today she is a powerhouse in her own right. She has been honoured with orders from the Italian and French arts ministers.
She took to Instagram to share the exciting news that she will be singing for his Majesty the King on his coronation.
“It’s hard to put into words how honoured and blessed I feel to receive an invitation to perform at The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6th of May 2023.” – Pretty Yende
Her talent is undeniable and we are so proud to hear this good news! We cannot wait to watch the coronation and see Pretty perform for the royal family, their guests and the entire global audience.
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