# wasn't wearing slacks... cecilia would like to be seen as a role model for other black artists wanting to make it in opera. so i think, slowly but surely, we are going to have more people of colour singing in these big houses. and i think there's a future for young women like me, black women in opera. in the autumn of 2021, cecilia took a major step in her career — becoming house soloist at the swiss national opera in the capital, bern. next, i meet another young opera singer seen as a superstar in the making —