South African mezzo-soprano Siphokazi Molteno made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera this week, playing Flora in La Traviata – she called it a dream come true!
New York, United States of America (28 October 2022) – Siphokazi Molteno debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, playing the role of Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata. Her performance has received high praise from critics and she says her dreams have come true!
Siphokazi Molteno, from Cape Town, is an award-winning opera singer. She graduated with degrees in music from Nelson Mandela University and the University of Cape Town.
As a young artist with Cape Town Opera, she sang Dorabella in Così fan tutte. She went on to win the Fleur Du Cap’s Best Performance in an Opera (Female) Award in both 2020 and 2022 for the role.
Siphokazi 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.
“I’m still in disbelief and words cannot express how grateful I am, I waited for this moment since I was a little girl and little did I know that this dream will come true so early in my career.” – Siphokazi Molteno
Opera critic Rick Perdian, for the New York Classical Review, gave high praise for her debut performance, saying,
“There were two house debuts of note. As Violetta’s confident Flora, mezzo-soprano Siphokazi Molteno, a member of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, displayed a striking voice. Flora often comes off as frivolous and flighty, yet Molteno’s take on her was just the opposite.”
Her season at the Metropolitan Opera will include her role as Flora in La Traviata and Sister Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmélites.
Take a look at her first performance shared in the reel below.
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