Yende has since interpreted roles in Puccini’s “La Bohème,” Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” and Rossini’s “Le comte Ory,” while performing in major opera houses in Milan, Paris and London. Her career took off internationally in 2013, with her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. “They called my name so many times I was like, ‘No, God please let this one go to someone else.’ I felt unworthy … hearing the kind of finesse that my peers had.” “The very first opera competition that I did was in Vienna, Austria, where I won everything possible,” she remembered. She started making a name for herself in South Africa while still a student at the University of Cape Town, and in 2011, Yende graduated from the Young Artists program at the Accademia at the Teatro alla Scala, in Milan, Italy, and began entering opera competitions. Michelly Rall/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images Pretty Yende performs with tenor Andrea Bocelli in Johannesburg, in July 2010. My gosh, my family were in trouble, because I wouldn’t stop practicing and shouting.” Her parents allowed her to study music at university on the condition that she would switch back to an accountancy degree if singing didn’t work out. “I would play the recording the whole day. “I remember recording it and imitating it,” she said. I did not believe human beings could do it,” she recalled. “Hearing this music and the power of it, sounded like something supernatural. Then she saw opera for the first time on TV at the age of 16. Yende never considered a career in music – she intended to study accountancy at university. It became the first step on the road to performing in front of massive audiences. When her grandmother first invited her to sing in public, she knew how uncomfortable it would be to stand in front of people, but she obliged. Yende says that as a shy child, she always wanted to please her family. Her most direct link to music was church hymns. Born in a tiny, rural town formerly known as Piet Retief, now eMkhondo, in Mpumulanga, South Africa, she had a happy, conventional religious upbringing. The story of how Yende reached the pinnacle of her career is an inspirational one. All the emotions were just rushing in,” she said, remembering the invitation.īut given the 38-year-old’s remarkable journey, it’s surprising that she was surprised at all. It has everything necessary to make surfing the web a pleasure without having to deal with any of the complications that go hand in hand with mobile internet use.“I was overwhelmed, shocked, happy. Opera Browser is an excellent alternative to browse on an Android terminal. You can also download any file easily and store it in the terminal's memory to be accessed at a later date from your desktop. The app comes with automatic support for social networks like Twitter and Facebook, so using them is much quicker and easier. Thanks to the Opera Link service, you can synchronize your favourites, shortcuts and general options from your desktop PC to your mobile terminal, this is very useful for those of us that are always on the go. You can also easily use the zoom function 'pinching the screen', along with many more touch shortcuts to make the browsing experience much more comfortable than with other browsers. The browser interface looks amazing on any Android terminal, giving it an elegant and, above all, functional look. ![]() This not only saves you a lot of time, but also money with respect to your data plan(if you're browsing with 3G) Opera Browser is an Internet browser that uses Opera servers to compress websites to load them faster.
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