The young South African soprano Vuvu Mpofu is already entering the international spotlight with her shimmering vocal quality and technique, boundless musicality, and authentic stage presence. In 2019, she was awarded the prestigious John Christie Award at the Glyndebourne Festival, and she is also a recent prizewinner at the Operalia Competition and the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.

This season, she will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Clara in Porgy and Bess. She also makes two major role debuts: as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor for Opera Vlaanderen and as Mimì in La bohème with Pittsburgh Opera. She returns to Cape Town Opera as Micaëla in a new production of Carmen. In concert, she sings her first Verdi Requiem with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Vuvu made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as a Blumenmädchen in a new production of Parsifal in 2018 conducted by Kirill Petrenko; other appearances include: Cunegonde in Candide for the Bergen National Opera; Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims for the Rossini Opera Festival and for Opera Köln; Clara in Porgy and Bess at the Teatro Real, Madrid and Teatro Colon, Buenos Aries and First Nymph in Rusalka at the Glyndebourne Festival.