singer~ so many elements of being a star singer~ you so many elements of being a star singer. you have to have the musicianship, you have to have the voice. musicianship, you have to have the voice. but musicianship, you have to have the voice, but you also has to have the personality voice, but you also has to have the personality. you have to have that warmth, personality. you have to have that warmth, the ability to engage with audience warmth, the ability to engage with audience members, and you have to be distinctive audience members, and you have to be distinctive and cecilia has those in spades distinctive and cecilia has those in spades so distinctive and cecilia has those in spades so i distinctive and cecilia has those in spades so i think she has a good chance spades so i think she has a good chance of spades so i think she has a good chance of going to the very top. getting chance of going to the very top. getting to chance of going to the very top
the stories we are telling does not discriminate, does not choose who or how you look like, where you come from, and it doesn t matter who is telling the story. it is the story of the character we are telling that should be important. # she wasn t wearing slacks.#. cecilia would like to be seen as a role model for 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, so i think it is going there, and i think there is a future for young women like me, black women, in opera.
emotion, myjourney. you never really know whether singers will make the superstar status because of course there are so many elements of being a star singer. you have to have the musicianship, you have to have the voice, but you also have to have the personality. you have to have that warmth, the ability to engage with audience members, and you have to be distinctive and cecilia has those in spades, so i think she has a good chance of going to the very top. getting to the top is tough. the opera world is highly competitive. injune 2021, cecilia took part in one of the most prestigious contests the bbc s cardiff singer of the world. cecilia made it to the finals. if she is nervous about appearing before the three judges, well, she certainly doesn t show it. applause.
competitions and that when my mum saw that i actually loved singing. when i finished, she asked what i wanted to study and i said law. and she said why not music because you are already singing? and i said actually this is what i wanted to do but i was afraid to say it because, you know, they are going to say, what is opera? you know, they are going to say, what is opera? what is opera? cecilia, as her mother called what is opera? cecilia, as her mother called her, what is opera? cecilia, as her mother called her, studied i what is opera? cecilia, as her- mother called her, studied music at the university of technology in pretoria, and then at cape town university, where she joined the opera company in the city, and that is when the competitions got serious. after an audition in 2019, she won a coveted place on the young artists programme here at the royal opera house. many hundreds applied, but only a handful are successful for each programme.
as i was growing up. and then ijoined the church choir, and ijoined the school choir. i took part in the singing competitions and that was when my mum saw that i actually loved singing. when i finished school she asked what i wanted to study and i said law. and she said why not music because you are already singing? . and i said actually this is what i wanted to do but i was afraid to say it because, you know, they are going to say, what is opera? cecilia, as her mother called her, studied music at the tshwane university of technology in pretoria, and then at cape town university, where she joined the opera company in the city, and that is when the competitions got serious. after an audition in 2019, she won a coveted place on the young artists programme