Fikile Mvinjelwa

Fikile Mvinjelwa (?-) is an opera singer.

Career

He has sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (2009-2010 season), Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Spoleto Festival, amongst numerous engagements.

Mvinjelwa’s many oratorio performances include the TRC (South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission) Rewind Cantata by Phillip Miller at the Brooklyn Festival in Prospect Park, NY and at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Mvinjelwa has sung major roles in operas such as La Bohème Noir (1997), Fidelio (2004), Rigoletto (2017, Cape Town Opera), Nabucco, Tosca, Macbeth (2007) and Faust.

Mvinjelwa is also an advocate of new and local opera and has sung a number of roles in contemporary South African operas such as:

• Enoch in Roelof Temmingh’s opera Enoch, Prophet of God (1995)
• Sacred Bones (1997)
• Buchuland (1998)
• Love and Green Onions (2001)
• King Dinuzulu in Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu by Mzilikazi Khumalo (2002)
• the story teller in Masque (2005)
• Mpande in Ziyankomo and the Forbidden Fruit (2012)

Awards

He was a recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards in 2001.

Sources

Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.

'Opera: a dark and stormy take on Verdi'. Weekend Special. 31 January 2017.

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