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 BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. Engagements for 2024/25 include Beethoven’s Symphony no.9 with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with The Royal Sinfonia and London Symphony Orchestra, and Liù in concert performances of Turandot with Minnesota Orchestra. Other recent engagements include her house debuts with Washington National Opera and Hamburg State Opera as Liù (also with The Royal Opera on tour to Japan), Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at the Salzburg Easter Festival, a return to The Hallé for Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mathilde (Guillaume Tell) and the title role of Iphigénie en Tauride for Theater Bern, and her Washington National Symphony Orchestra debut in Barber Knoxville: The Summer of 1915 (also with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra). Engagements for 2025/26 include her Metropolitan Opera debut as Liù and Mahler’s Symphony no.4 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.