Pretty Yende nearly took ‘break a leg’ a little too literally ahead of performing at King Charles’s Coronation. The evening before she sang ‘Sacred Fire’ at Westminster Abbey on that May day in 2023, ...

A mishap in the South African soprano's Metropolitan Opera debut still makes her laugh, but that night ended with a standing ovation. Now she's in... Pretty Yende: An Opera Star Whose Rise Began With ...

The South African soprano Pretty Yende has yet to make any appearances locally, but her enchanting recital debut disc — a collection of operatic excerpts by Rossini, Delibes, Gounod and more — makes ...

South Africa's Pretty Yende became the first black woman to sing at the coronation of a British monarch on Saturday. Yende sang moments before Charles III was crowned king at London's Westminster ...

While performers for the Coronation Concert have not been announced, the music for the crowning ceremony has been shared by Buckingham Palace Stephanie Petit is a Senior News Editor on the Royals team ...

“The story is not a fairy tale. It's a true story and I'm a real person,” the Dior ambassador says one year after performing at the coronation of King Charles III. “Even though 2023 was really, really ...

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) offers an exciting start to the new year with South African opera sensation Pretty Yende. The widely acclaimed soprano, whose introduction to opera at 16 was ...

Featuring two talented women of colour at the Coronation is quite progressive of the British monarchy with its chequered history, both recent and past. In the light of family drama in the British ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Pretty Yende--a name that in itself brings certain expectations as well as ...

When Pretty Yende made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2013, it was the result of a last-minute change in casting that both delighted and worried the opera world. Replacing Nino Machaidze after ...

Follow the young South African soprano's fairytale rise to fame in a travelogue of classic arias and scenes by Rossini, Delibes and Bellini. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album ...