Soprano Pretty Yende sometimes hankers after the climate of her native land.
“The sun! I miss the sun!” the South African singer exclaimed when asked for what home comforts she felt nostalgic.
If she has spent time away from Rainbow Nation daylight of late, Yende has been radiating some luster of her own. In January 2013, she made a buzzed-about debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, taking on the role of Countess Adele in Rossini’s “Le Comte Ory” with just a few weeks’ notice after another singer fell ill. Several years before, she had walked away with all the main prizes at the Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna. She has performed at the renowned Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where she lives.
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