Jannie Moolman

Jannie Moolman joined the PACT permanent chorus in 1989 and was soon undertaking smaller roles with the company. At the end of 1991 he added his first major role in a musical, Charlie in Brigadoon. In January 1992 he was promoted to soloist and then appeared in several major roles. He also appeared in Soireés and Sunday Morning Opera Concerts. He is the recipient of a Vita Award as most promising singer. He took a year's absence and then rejoined PACT Opera in January 1995. In February he was heard as Don José in Peter Brook's La Tragédie de Carmen at CAPAB's opera festival, followed by Ernesto in PACT's Don Pasquale followed by two performances as Rodolfo in La Bohème. Most recently

(1955- ) is a South African opera singer and actor. He was a member of PACT Opera from 1980 until it was closed in 1995. He then became a part time singer and actor, as well as a nature guide and hunter.

He has been regarded as one of South Africa's best bass singers. In 1980 he won the Mimi Coertse Study Bursary which allowed him to study in Munich. He has sung a variety of roles in works by Verdi, Donizetti, Strauss, Wagner and Puccini. He has traveled the length and breadth of South Africa to perform in opera and oratoria. In addition to two Nederburg prizes for opera he has also been honoured with the Friends of the Opera Study Bursary, the State Theatre / SAA Opera Foundation Award and a VITA Award. He has sung the parts of Colline in La Bohème, Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow and Samuele in Un Ballo in Maxchera.

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Personal website [1]

PACT Opera programme for Les Contes d'Hoffmann, October/November 1995