Born in Kroonstad, South Africa, Levy Sekgapane studied with Kamal Khan and Hanna van Niekerk at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town.
From the very beginning of his career, he established himself internationally with two Rossini roles that have become his calling cards: Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, performed in new productions namely at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and Opéra national de Paris; and Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola, which he has sung at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, among many others.

His wide repertoire also includes: Idreno in Semiramide, Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims, Lindoro in L’italiana in Algeri, Rodrigo in Rossini’s Otello, Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Arturo in I puritani, Elvino in La sonnambula, Arbace in Idomeneo, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Jonah in Time of Our Singing.

He recently made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in the title role of Mitridate, a role he has also performed in Paris and Montpellier.

Levy Sekgapane is the winner of the first prizes at the International Belvedere Singing Competition (2015), the Montserrat Caballé Singing Competition (2015), and Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition (2017).