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Young Artist Concert: Lulama Taifasi

Sun Aug 28, 15:00 - Sun Aug 28, 17:00

Old Nectar Gardens, Jonkershoek

ABOUT

Lulama Taifasi is a young up and coming tenor from the Eastern Cape whose talent was recognised by Maestro Kamal Khan, previous head of the UCT Opera School, SA College of Music. Lulama attended classes with Hanna and Albie van Schalkwyk, Grant McLachlan, and Italian classes at the Italian School Dante Aligieri, Cape Town. Apart from concerts at the Italian Consulate in Cape Town and with the Musicumbrella Studio, he performed in concerts in Montagu and Swellendam.


He made his opera debut during the SU Toyota Woordfees in the role of Gastone in Verdi’s La Traviata with Mamre Opera performing in Darling (2019) and the Endler Hall in Stellenbosch (2020). He performed with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Brandon Phillips at Artscape as part of a concert broadcast on television (2020) and took part in the 50th Youth Classical Music Concert in Artscape in 2021.

  

In April 2021 he obtained his Level 4 Diploma in Music Performance (Singing) from Trinity College in London with distinction. He joined the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy, in November 2021 where he is in the Young Artists Programme under Maestro Gianni Tangucci. In April 2022 Lulama sang the role of Benvolio in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet with Juan Diego Florez as Romeo at Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Opera di Firenze. In May 2022 he sang the role of Fante del Consiglio de' Dieci in Verdi’s I due Foscari with Placido Domingo in the leading role.


In July 2022, Lulama reached the finals of the Riccardo Zandonai Competition in Italy against 140 entrants and won the Opera São Paulo Prize, which will take him to Brazil in the future.


For this recital, Lulama will be accompanied by accomplished South African pianist, Tertia Visser. Tertia studied under national and international piano masters, John Antoniadis and London-based Martino Tirimo, after winning the prestigious Mabel Quick Overseas Scholarship. She regularly accompanies talented and award-winning musicians at various national and international competitions and concerts. In 2016, she received her Fellowship from the Trinity College of Music, London.


Join us for this fundraising concert on Sunday 28 August 2022 at 3pm in support of this talented young South African tenor. Tickets are R200 per person and include selected wines from Banhoek’s renowned Oldenburg Wine Estate and finger food at interval. Student / learner tickets are offered at R50 per concert at the door. Guests are invited to come early or stay after the concert to enjoy the tranquility of the Old Nectar gardens.

 

PROGRAMME


DONIZETTI: Quanto è bella from L’elisir d’amore

TOSTI: Ideale

GASTALDON: Musica proibità

VON FLOTOW: M'appari from Martha

VERDI: Dal labbro il canto estasio vola from Falstaff

R. STRAUSS: Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Morgen; Zueignung

VERDI: Lunge da lei / De' miei bollenti spiriti from La Traviata

BOITO: Giunto sul passo estremo from Mefistofele

VERDI: Questa quella ia from Rigoletto


DIRECTIONS

Young Artist Concert: Lulama Taifasi
Old Nectar Gardens, Jonkershoek
2WV8+PR Stellenbosch, South Africa
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