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Angela Kerrison

Zurich

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The lyric soprano Angela Kerrison lives in Switzerland and was born in Botswana. She studied at the University of Cape Town in the College of Music and successfully completed her studies with an opera diploma. She then became a member of the Cape Town Opera Ensemble.

In 2005 she won the role of Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the UNESCO International Singing Competition in Verona, Italy.

2006-2008 Angela was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera. For the 2007 studio productions she sang Polly in Britten / Gay Der Bettler Oper. In 2008 she was La Didone in Cavalli's La Didone. On the main stage she is likely to take on Verdi Countess Ceprano's in Rigoletto.

During this time in Zurich she took part in various singing competitions. She was a finalist in the La Voce singing competition in Ansbach, Germany in 2007 and in 2008 also in the international singing competition in Strasbourg.

In summer 2008 she took part in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival. In 2009 she is expected to work as a cover in the production of Christof Loy's Theodora von Handel.

From 2008 to 2009 she was a member of the ensemble at the Theater and Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg, Germany. She sang Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo and Servilia in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito.

For her outstanding performance as a singer and actress in the role of Servilia in Vivaldi's Tito Manilo at the Winter Baroque Festival in Schwetzingen, she was nominated for the 2009 Der Faust theater prize.

In 2010 Angela made her debut at the Le Châtelet Theater in Paris with the role of Julie in Hammerstein's Showboat, a co-production with the Cape Town Opera.

In 2014 she toured Great Britain and Ireland with Julie in Hammerstein's Show Boat. Again with Cape Town Opera and co-produced with the Wales Millenium Center.

Further musical projects lead her to the Swiss Youth Orchestra (Brahms Requiem), the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Hotel de Pekin by Willem Jeths), Lausanne Opera (Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff), the Auryn Quartet (Boccherini State Mater), Axel Bauni (Traunstein Lieder Evenings ) and Sonja Lohmiller (Rencontres Harmoniques, Lausanne).

Angela can currently be heard as a freelance singer in opera productions, operetta productions and music theaters, as well as in oratorio & concert. In 2018 she appeared as a singer and performer in Black.Space.Race at the Schlachthaus Theater, Bern and again in 2020 Dachstock, Reitschule, Bern.

With great anticipation Angela sings for the first time at the Operettenbühne Hombrechtikon, her debut as Hanna Glawari in Léhar's The Merry Widow, conducted by Caspar Dechmann.

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