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The South African tenor Sunnyboy Dladla is one of the most exciting and sought-after rossinian voices of his generation. The unique sound of his voice described as ``a crisp, clearly focused, brightly timbred, radiantly present voice, agile and coloratura oriented`` (Die Deutsche Buehne) and with an outstanding stage presence have allowed him to combine an active opera career with frequent concert performances.
His plans for 2022-2023 season includes a return to the Edinburgh Festival with Carmina Burana under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles and Opernhaus Zurich with Lessons in Love and Violence by G. Benjamin. Sunnyboy will make his debut at the Great Hall of the Mozarteum with Requiem by W.A Mozart. At Staatsoper Hannover he will be seen in Count Almaviva, Barbiere di Siviglia, Peter Quint, The Turn of the Screw, and a new role debut Leopold from La Juive by Halevy.

Sunnyboy has appeared on recordings including a complete DVD recording of ``Mose in Egitto`` live from the Bregenzer Festspiel under the baton of Enrique Mazzola,  ́ ́Les Contes D ́Hoffmann`` live from De National Opera Amsterdam conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
In september 2020 he joined the Ensemble at Staatsoper Hannover and since then he is perfoming roles like Count Almaviva from Rossini ́s Barbiere di Siviglia, Ferrando from Cosi fan Tutte, Tempo from Handel ́s Il Trionfo del Tempo e di Disinganno, Cassio from Verdi ́s Otello, Peter Quint from The Turn of the Screw and Leopold from Halevy ́s La Juive.
Following his successful BBC Proms debut in the 2018 festival with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in Bete/ Le Petit Vieillard/La théière/La rainette in Ravel L’enfant et les sortilèges, he later reprised the roles with the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle at the Lucerne Festival and was then invited to return to the 2019 BBC Proms to sing Mozart Requiem with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Nathalie Stutzmann. 2021 saw his
Edinburgh Festival debut singing Brighella in Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos.
Sunnyboy made his US debut singing Handel Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra Washington conducted by Rolf Beck, which resulted in an immediate re- invitation to sing Mozart Requiem the following year with Christoph Eschenbach. Recent concerts include Carmina Burana with the Toronto Simphony Orchestra and at the Grand Teton Festival in the USA, both with Sir Donald Runnicles and other notable concert performances include Carmina Burana and Messiah in Bucharest conducted by Cristian Măcelaru.
One of Sunnyboy ́s saught-after signature roles Count Almaviva from Rossini ́s Barbiere di Siviglia took him to Rossini Opera Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Den Norske Oper Oslo, Leipzig Opera, Teather Dormund, Staatsoper Stuttgart and many more.
Other roles include Don Ramiro from La Cenerentola debuting it at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and in the following seasons he reprised it at Opera Leipzig and Opera North Leeds conducted by Wyn Davies; Paolino in Cimarosa ́s Il Matrimonio Segreto and Il

 Conte di Libenskof Il viaggio a Reims for Opernhaus Zürich; Belfiore in Rossini ́s Il viaggio a Reims with Alberto Zedda for the Accademia Rossiniana at the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival, Arone in Mose in Egitto and Xailoun in Offenbach Barkouf for Oper Köln.
The south-african tenor is also well known on the concert stage. He sang Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini under the baton of Alberto Zedda in Portugal and at the Schleswig Hollstein Festival conducted by Rolf Beck; The Creation by Haydn at the Cape Town Philamonics, and many more.
Sunnyboy also took part in concerts alongside Cecilia Bartoli at the Bozar in Brussels, Pretty Yende at the Cape Town opera, and he was featured in the Renee Fleming tour in South Africa (Cape Town).
From 2018 untill 2020 Sunnyboy Dladla took part of the soloist ensemble of the Dortmund Opera house where he sang roles like Count Almaviva from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Pong from Puccini ́s Turandot and Alphonse from La Muette de Portici. Season 2014-2015 found him in the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin where he sang in production like Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Rondine, La Traviata, The Love for three oranges and The Tales of Hoffmann.
In the seasons 2012-2014, the tenor was part of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera. During this time, the young artist was heard as Dorvil (La Scala di Seta), Paolino (Il Matrimonio Segreto), Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Nick (La Fanciulla del West), First Officer (Soldaten), Don Basilio/Don Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro).
Sunnyboy Dladla has worked with many renowned conductors (Alberto Zedda, Marco Armiliato, Daniele Rustioni, Riccardo Minasi, David Perry, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Eduardo Strausser, Constantin Trinks, Lothar Koenigs) as well as with distinguished directors such as Barrie Kosky, Andreas Homoki, Rolando Villazon, Christoph Loy, Lotte de Beer, Calixto Bieito amongst others.
Sunnyboy Dladla was born in Piet-Retief, South Africa; he graduated with distinctions at the University of Cape Town where he was able to gain his first experiences in roles like Nemorino ( L ́elixir d ́amore), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Il Conte di Libenskof (Il Viaggio a Reims), Dorvil( La Scala di Seta) and many more.

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Una furtiva Lagrima

The Swallow

Gobin

The Barber of Seville

Il Conte d'Almaviva

Don Giovanni

Don Ottavio

The Coronation of Poppea

Arnalta

The Elixir of Love

Nemorino

The Marriage of Figaro

Basilio

Don Curzio

Lucia of Lammermoor

Lord Arturo Bucklaw

Die Schatzinsel

Falscher François

The Silken Ladder

Dorvil

The Patient Socrates

Pitho

The Soldiers

1. junger Offizier

The Secret Marriage

Paolino

The Girl of the Golden West

Nick

The Journey to Reims

Il Conte di Libenskof

Il Cavaliere Belfiore

Cinderella

Don Ramiro

Moses in Egypt

Osiride

The Tales of Hoffmann

Andres

Cochenille

Frantz

Pittichinaccio

Aronne

Turandot

Pang

Pong

Barkouf

Xaïloum

Sweeney Todd

Adolfo Pirelli/Daniel O'Higgins

Così fan tutte

Ferrando

The Triumph of Time and Truth

Tempo

The Turn of the Screw

Peter Quint

Othello

Cassio

Ariadne on Naxos

Brighella

Lessons in Love and Violence

Young King

The Jewess

Prince Léopold

Trouble inTahiti

Second Trio Member

Requiem

Aurelian in Palmira

Oraspe

Carmina Burana

Xaïloum/Geliebter der Balkis

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