Twenty-eight South African soprano Pretty Yende in early 2013 she starred in the New York Metropolitan Opera. 17th January there made her debut as Adele alongside Juan Diego Flórez in Rossini's opera Le Comte Ory and criticism when evaluating its performance spared no superlatives. The success was all the more that it was a stand-in for Nino Machaidze, whose role is Pretty learned overnight! "An incredible event that heralds an incredible career," was said in one of the criticisms.
Pretty grew up in Cape Town. In 2010 she won the International Competition Vincenzo Bellini in 2011 in the international opera competition Operalia. In the following years, and has repeatedly returned to the stage of Milan's La Scala as Berenice (Rossini: Opportunity makes the thief), Barbarina (Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro), Norina (Donizetti: Don Pasquale) and Musetta in Puccini's La Boheme …