|
|
|
Pauline Du Plessis made her professional debut in 1993, singing the role of Marcellina
in Fidelio for the Roodepoort City Opera. She studied under Eric Muller at the Pretoria
Technikon Opera School where she received the Morrison Bursary, in 1992 and a year
later the Pretorium Trust Bursary for Best Student. In 1994 she was the youngest
competitor in the Unisa Transnet International Singing Competition and later that
year she reached the semi-finals in the Rosa Ponselle International Singing Competition
in New York, after which she was a finalist in the SABC Singing Competition.
|
|
She achieved her Higher National Diploma with distinction. In 1995 she joined the
CAPAB Opera Sudio and has since then sung the roles of Musetta in La Boheme, Papagena
in Die Zauberflöte and Gilda in Rigoletto at the inaugural Spier Festival.
|
|
Other roles include Adele in Die Fledermaus, Norina in Don Pasquale and Blondchen
in Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Roodepoort City Opera. She has also sung Blondchen
in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Amore in Orfeo e Euridice at the Oude Libertas
Amphitheatre, Cendrillon and Antonia in The Tales of Hoffman for the Central Festival
Opera in London and Northampton and Gilda in Rigoletto at the Opera Holland Park
in London, as well as Oscar in Un Ballo for Cape town Opera in 2000 and Fennimore
in Silver Lake. She also sang in West Side Story at the Spier Festival in 2000.
|
|
|
She toured with Broomhill Opera performing The Mystery Plays and Michaela in Carmen,
as well as The Beggars Opera in Turkey, Perth, England, Dublin, Charleston South
Carolina, and New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
|
|
Pauline has sung Oratorio with the New Arts Philharmonic Orchestra, Pretoria under
Gerhard Korsten and The Messiah with the Philarmonia Chorus, as well as Judas Macabeus
for Palace Opera under Jonathin Finney in London. More recently, she has performed
in The Phantom of the Opera, both locally and internationally.
|
|
|