Frances van Vuuren, soprano, is a native of Cape Town, South Africa and is currently pursuing a postgraduate diploma in opera at the South African College of Music with Violina Anguelov-Hobbs. During her time at UCT she has been a finalist in the Friends of Opera in Cape Town Bursary Competition (February 2023), the Neues Lied competition (September 2023), shared third place in the Aviva Pelham Operetta Competition (May 2023), shared first place in the David Aldred Memorial Prize for Sopranos (April 2024) and placed fourth in the 23rd Schock Foundation Prize for Singing (October, 2024). She was awarded first prize in the 2024 Fine Music Radio Bursary Trust Music Awards. With Opera UCT she covered Isabella in L’inganno Felice and performed the role of Stella in Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Frances completed her BMus and MMus degrees at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. There, she performed Sandman in Hansel and Gretel and Fortuna/Damigella in L’incoronazione di Poppea. She was also seen in the ensembles of L’étoile, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Traviata, H.M.S Pinafore, and Die Zauberflöte. Additional credits include Bianca in La Rondine with Chicago Summer Opera, Eurydice (cover) in Orpheus in the Underworld with Utah Vocal Arts Academy, Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica with Opera Lucca and First Spirit in Die Zauberflöte with Bloomington Chamber Opera.
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