Golda Schultz in Copenhagen 2021 (cropped)

Golda Schultz (born 1983 in Cape Town) is a South African operatic

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

Life

Origin and education

Schultz, daughter of a mathematics professor, grew up in

Bloemfontein Bloemfontein, ( ; , "fountain of flowers") also known as Bloem, is one of South Africa's three capital cities and the capital of the Free State (province), Free State province. It serves as the country's judicial capital, along with legisla ...

. She studied singing at the

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...

and at the

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in New York. She was also taught by

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and Michelle Breedt.

Career as an opera singer

From 2011 to 2013, she was a member of an opera studio and from 2014 to 2018, of the ensemble of the

Bavarian State Opera The Bayerische Staatsoper is a German opera company based in Munich. Its main venue is the Nationaltheater München, and its orchestra the Bayerische Staatsorchester. History The parent ensemble of the company was founded in 1653, under Ele ...

. In addition, she had several roles at the

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from 2013 to 2015 and appeared for the first time at the

Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amad ...

in 2015, where she gave the role of Sophie in ''

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...

''. In 2016, Schultz sang Susanna in ''

The Marriage of Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( it, Le nozze di Figaro, links=no, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premie ...

'' at

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. In 2017, she was again heard at the Salzburg Festival, this time as Vitellia in ''

La clemenza di Tito ' (''The Clemency of Titus''), K. 621, is an '' opera seria'' in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. It was started after most of ' (''The Magic Flute''), the last of ...

''. In October 2017, she made her debut at the

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in New York City as Pamina in ''

The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ''Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that inclu ...

''. On 19 December 2020, at the WDR Christmas Concert in the , she sang, among other works the ''Ave Maria'' by

Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece ''Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ' ...

and ''

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'' by Max Reger.

Roles (selection)

* Dido (Purcell: ''Dido and Aeneas'') * Contessa Almaviva (Mozart: ''Le nozze di Figaro'') * Donna Elvira (Mozart: ''Don Giovanni'') * Pamina (Mozart: ''Die Zauberflöte'') * Susanna (Mozart: ''Le nozze di Figaro'') * Ines (Verdi: ''Il trovatore'') * Anna (Verdi: ''Nabucco'') * Mrs. Alice Ford (Verdi: ''Falstaff'') * Liù (Puccini: ''Turandot'') * Sophie (Strauss: ''Der Rosenkavalier'') * Freia (Wagner: ''Das Rheingold'') * Ortlinde (Wagner: ''Die Walküre'') * Elisabeth Zimmer (Henze: ''Elegy for Young Lovers'') * Clara (Gershwin: ''Porgy and Bess'') * Agathe (von Weber: ''Der Freischütz'')

References

External links

* *
Golda Schultz
Portrait in the Munich TZ, article from 15 February 2014, Retrieved 1 March 2021
Golda Schultz
on Operabase * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schultz, Golda South African operatic sopranos Date of birth missing (living people) Living people 1983 births 21st-century South African women opera singers