Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha won the Song Prize at the 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and the 2024 Herbert von Karajan Prize. She is a former Jette Parker Young Artist (2019/20). Recent engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Munich PO), Verdi’s Requiem (La Monnaie, Brussels), Poulenc’s Stabat Mater (Teatro Regio, Turin), Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder (Cincinnati SO) and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (Royal Sinfonia, LSO). Other engagements include her house debuts with Washington National Opera and Staatsoper Hamburg as Liù (also with The Royal Opera on tour to Japan), Elijah (LSO, Chicago SO), Verdi’s Requiem (Atlanta SO, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Salzburg Easter Festival), Mathilde in Guillaume Tell and the title role in Iphigénie en Tauride (Theater Bern).  Engagements for 2025/26 include her Metropolitan Opera debut as Liù, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (LA Philharmonic), Vier letzte Lieder (Philharmonia, RPO), Williams’ A Sea Symphony (LPO), Dvořák’s Stabat Mater (National Symphony Orchestra Ireland) and Contessa in concert performances of Le nozze di Figaro with Montreal Symphony Orchestra.