Golda Schultz is a South African

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral ...

Early life and education

Golda Schultz, daughter of a mathematics professor, grew up in

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. She studied singing at the

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and at the

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

in New York. She was also taught by Johan Botha,

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, and Michelle Breedt.Golda Schultz
on Opera Online

Career

From 2011 to 2013, Schultz was a member of an opera studio, From 2014 to 2018 she was a member of the ensemble of the

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. She also had several roles at the

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from 2013 to 2015, and appeared for the first time at the

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in 2015, where she played the role of Sophie in ''

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel ''Les amours du cheva ...

''. In 2016, Schultz sang Susanna in ''

The Marriage of Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienn ...

'' at

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. In 2017, she was again heard at the Salzburg Festival, this time as Vitellia in ''

La clemenza di Tito (''The Clemency of Titus''), K. 621, is an ''opera seria'' in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. Mozart completed the work in the midst of composing ''Die Zauberfl ...

''. In October 2017, she made her debut at the

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in New York City as Pamina in ''

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''. On 19 December 2020, at the WDR Christmas Concert in the , she sang, among other works the ''Ave Maria'' by

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and ''

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'' by Max Reger.

Selected roles

* Dido (Purcell: ''Dido and Aeneas'') * Contessa Almaviva (Mozart: ''Le nozze di Figaro'') * Donna Elvira (Mozart: ''Don Giovanni'') * Pamina (Mozart: ''Die Zauberflöte'') * Susanna (Mozart: ''Le nozze di Figaro'') * Ines (Verdi: ''Il trovatore'') * Anna (Verdi: ''Nabucco'') * Mrs. Alice Ford (Verdi: ''Falstaff'') * Liù (Puccini: ''Turandot'') * Sophie (Strauss: ''Der Rosenkavalier'') * Freia (Wagner: ''Das Rheingold'') * Ortlinde (Wagner: ''Die Walküre'') * Elisabeth Zimmer (Henze: ''Elegy for Young Lovers'') * Clara (Gershwin: ''Porgy and Bess'') * Agathe (von Weber: ''Der Freischütz'')

References

External links

* *
Golda Schultz
Portrait in the Munich TZ, article from 15 February 2014, Retrieved 1 March 2021
Golda Schultz
on Operabase * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schultz, Golda South African operatic sopranos Date of birth missing (living people) Living people 1983 births 21st-century South African women opera singers