💫 Ambassador for the House of @DIOR 💫 Goodwill Ambassador @WHO 💫 CHEVALIER DES ART EST LE LETTRES 🇫🇷 ORDER OF IKHAMANGA 🇿🇦 ITALIAN KNIGHTHOOD 🇮🇹
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22 January 2024 was a dream 🤍
First appearance as @Dior Ambassador in Paris, at the exceptional @mariagraziachiuri’s new collection presentation and a celebratory dinner for the 400th anniversary of Chateau de Versailles 🤍 #prettyjourney
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📣 It’s hard to put into words how honored and blessed I feel to receive an invitation to perform at The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6th of May 2023.
📣✨🎉💝🙏💕👑🎉📣
📸: @gregorhohenberg
#Coronation2023
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Third born in our family, help me celebrate her victory on winning her first international voice competition in 🇫🇷 last night. First Prize & Audience Prize winner at Vincenzo Bellini Bel Canto Competition. Clip from her first competition in Tbilisi earlier this year @BuleloYende
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ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING
Looking back with gratitude and looking forward to His Majesties Coronation on May 6🤗
Jeremiah 1 #prettyjourney🙏🏾
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After a very long train ride from Barcelona, totally exhausted & I’m welcomed by this poster.I cried, tears of gratitude seeing my tomorrow, remembering the days where I dreamt that one day I’ll be that girl on that poster...#prettyblessedgirl #Manon #Paris #prettyjourney
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Thank you so much 🤗
Congratulations to HM King Charles and Queen Camilla on their coronation. It was wonderful to see our peerless opera star @PrettyYende shine during the coronation #Coronation #CoronationDay @ukinsouthafrica
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I had a wonderful time chatting all things Coronation @cnn with just a few days away from May 6 Westminster Abby in London 🇬🇧 #prettyjourney
CNN speaks with with world-renowned opera singer Pretty Yende who will make coronation history cnn.it/41P9SQr
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6 March 2023 was a very unique birthday @nadinecsierra I love you so much. @GiacSagripanti thank you so much for everything #sograteful #prettyblessedgirl
Merci du coeur mon amour Paris. I can still hear all your voices singing happy birthday echoing in every fiber of my being💙
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People who kill themselves are not crazy. Suicide is real. Mental illness is real. You never know what drives an individual to that end of the rope ...
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This has been the most extraordinary gift I could have ever wished for. Ordine Stella d'Italia (OSI)- an Italian knighthood presented by the Italian Consul in Cape Town Emanuele Pollio. Grazie mille 🇮🇹 💞#prettyjourney #prettyblessedgirl🤗
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I’m saddened to miss the concert tonight @festivalcaprocat with @nadinecsierra I’m very grateful to @demurofrancesco for performing tonight and sending my sincerest gratitude for the entire management team for dedicating the concert in loving memory of my beloved mom ♥️ #RIP
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Indescribable feeling every time I saw that standing ovation💞Merci bien Paris, a Violetta Debut that’ll treasure for eternity. Such a precious gift you gave me. See you soon in Opera Bastille for my debut in the title role in Jules Massenet’s Manon @operadeparis #prettyjourney
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17 March 2023 marks my role debut as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto at the @staatsoperHH with phenomenal artists that I’ve looked up for a while and admire @polenzanitenor & @georgegagnidze , the entire wonderful cast and crew. I’m very grateful. #prettyjourney 📸 Bonfills
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last night @WrStaatsoper we were embraced by warmth from the Viennese audience for our opening night of la Traviata .. magical. Thank you so much Vienna for the Standing Ovation. I was pleasantly shocked and utterly humbled. You really caressed my heart in a very precious way.
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Because your votes. I’ve won 💞 @Forumopera best female of the year 🇫🇷. Thank you all so much for voting for me💞 #prettyarmy
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I’m so excited to share the great news of gracing the cover @OPERANEWS February Issue. I can never ask for any better way to start this wondrous New Year #Covergirl #iamher #irise. Can’t wait to share my joy @MetOpera in Donizetti’s la fille du regiment as Marie🤗#prettyjourney
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2023 has been a year full of incredible highs and some unbelievable lows for me. From almost a hundred shows that took me all over the world, a once in a lifetime performance at @westminsterabbeylondon for his Majesty’s King Charles the III Coronation and never done before
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BIRTHDAY WEEKEND BLISS IN PARIS
Let The Celebrations Continue
#38YearsOfAmazingGrace
#march6
#prettyblessedgirl #prettyjourney
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March 6, I was born. So grateful to see another year. I’m grateful for many blessings in my life but today more than anything. I’m grateful to be alive💞 #bornday #prettyblessedgirl #goodnessandmercyfollowsmeallthedaysofmylife #prettyjourney
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My everyday crush. She is my pillar. My inspiration. My first love. My sister. @BuleloYende So proud of you and what. Joy to see you soar #yendegirlslovetosing #shesmysister #proud
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It’s our 2nd performance tonight of our Tales of Hoffmann @staatsoperhamburg. Godspeed to the entire wonderful cast and crew from “Giulietta”🤗 #prettyjourney
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My most exciting 2018/19; I’ll be opening the season @Liceu_cat I Puritani,return @MetOpera in 2 French operas,Debut Bellini’s La Sonnambula @operzuerich @deutsche_oper; the highlight will be my debut in Verdi’s La Traviata as Violetta in Paris 🇫🇷@operadeparis #prettyjourney
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Hey you…yes you…and you too😉
It’ll get better…just hold on a tiny bit longer♥️
Keep falling forward
Your Pretty
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Just learned of the passing of this beautiful soul and legend. Rest in God’s eternal peace Montserrat Caballé. My deepest condolences to the entire Caballé Family who’ve been a huge assistance in my career development 💔💔💔
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VIVA VERDI #becomingvioletta
Today I make my debut in one of the most beautiful cities of 🇮🇹 Italy, Palermo at the historic @teatromassimo in a semi-staged production of Verdi’s La Traviata as Violetta with my amazing colleagues. #throwback @MalteseTenor #prettyjourney
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So grateful to be in London 🇬🇧 for my return at the @RoyalOperaHouse to per Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto. Opening October 12. Better get your tickets before it gets SOLD OUT😳💛
#SMILEANYWAYS #PRETTYJOURNEY
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In Venice for the first time in my life!It feels like I am transported to another time – the art, music, food & pure romance in the air is like no other place!
Feeling so blessed to be able to meet the New 2022 here from the magnificent stage of @teatrolafenice!
#CapodannoFenice
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I couldn’t believe I’s that close to her, oozing kindness&wisdom, she said ‘you have the authority to your voice, be patient&kind to urself just like your wonderful gift is to ur life. Careful not to be overly consumed with perfection. Trust ur process 💔RIP Montserrat Caballé
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I sing Opera. I ‘express’ Italian repertoire/french repertoire as a native Swati/Zulu or even possibly a Congolese native ancestry😝.
truth? I’m gifted with the gift of song, utterly privileged for that human expression on the global stage🤷🏽♀️in my living lifetime #prettyjourney
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I had the honor of taking part in the Patrons of @operadeparis 40th gala last night. Big thanks to Amine Ayissi for dressing me for this precious occasion #AROPGALA2020 🇨🇲 Haute Couture #runwaydress #prettyjourney
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...’South African soprano Pretty Yende has shot to fame at lightning speed....classicfm.com/discover-music… I feel utterly humbled to be amongst such historic Pioneers, human beings who’ve been a tremendous inspiration for my #prettyjourney @ClassicFM Thank You #prettyblessedgirl
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Celebrating my birthday in Paris @operadeparis again this year makes my heart burst with gratitude and joy. Rehearsals for our production of Don Pasquale are on the way for my debut in Palais Garnier🤗🤗Gioir 💞😘#itsmybirthday #prettyjourney
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I’m so sorry to cancel my last performance of Manon @WrStaatsoper due to sustaining a serious injury on my 2nd performance. I’s hoping I’d heal but unfortunately it’s the opposite. This is how I spent eve hours before the coronation performance 👏🏽I need to follow medical advise
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My dearly beloved, I believe you are having a Blessed Sunday. Mine is very well indeed too, spending it with some of my favorite people in Paris @oscardelarenta 👗 and 👒 @chapeaux.atelier5 👠 @ferragamoo_shoes 🤗 #jeveuxvivre prettyjourney
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Merci du coeur France🇫🇷
Je vous aime
Toujour à vous
Votre Madame L’Officier
Pretty Yende🇿🇦
Officiere des arts et des letteres
#decoration #prettyjourney
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Thank you so much 🤗
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INSIGNES D’OFFICIER DES ARTS ET DES LETTERES.
Thank you so much to the French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malik
I feel extremely honored and humbled by such a prestigious Decoration
Pretty Yende
Officiere des arts et des letteres
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Tonight marks my 4th PrimaDonna Role on the legendary stage of the @RoyalOperaHouse singing the role of Gilda for the first time in this historic opera house. #Adina #Norina #Violetta & now #Gilda #prettyjourney
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Finally #prettyjourney lands in Madrid @Teatro_Real Spain 🇪🇸 tomorrow 🤗
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Big thanks, lots of and gratitude from from Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow 🇷🇺 #prettyjourney
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I’m always happy being in New York City & to be welcomed in this way from my New York Family Audience warms my heart in a very special way. Can’t wait to see you all @carnegiehall with@jbaillieu for our debut recital at Zankel Hall tonight #soldout #carnegiehall #prettyjourney
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I’m speechless even now I can still feel the warm embrace in my very being. Thank you so much to my beloved countrymen from the South African Embassy in Brussels #tearsofjoy #prettyjourney ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Amb Xasa leading Team Brussels in supporting @PrettyYende at the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
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Counting hours to my @carnegiehall Stern Hall debut with @METOrchestra & @mtilsonthomas @MetOpera basking in Mahler & Mozart’s incredibly rich-heartwarming & sparkling melodic lines. Thanks to Emmanuelle Aryton for this incredibly cool artwork💕 @CNNAfrica #prettyjourney
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I am weeping like a motherless Child as a very close friend of mine just sent me this picture at the back of the current magazine of @opera.news NYC 🇺🇸#prettyblessedgirl #prettyjourney
YOU CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT IT MEANS TO ME😢
#‘just smile’ #myhistory #myfootprints #Irise 💕
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Oh boy oh boy, she’s at it again tonight @operadeparis Palais Garnier🙈🙈 #PoveroDonPasquale 3rd performance tonight, it’s a great privilege. So sorry Michele Pertusi💞🙈🇿🇦🌍🎭#prettyjourney
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It hurts deeply. Covid 19. Friends, people I know affected & killed. What a world it is. Who could have imagined it this way a few months ago? As I prepare for my trip back to my second home , Milan. I’m so scared😢 Lord have mercy on me. My friends. My community. My world 💕
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#tbt my debut as Manon in Jules Massenet’s magnificent opera in Paris 🇫🇷 @operadeparis ohhhh how I wish to have the proper opportunity to sing this role for an audience and see the total fruition of a dream role debut that’s very close to my heart #Gavotte #prettyjourney
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The day I met @oprah Winfrey. It’s incredible how dreams give birth to unimaginable historic encounters. I had no idea it was possible to dream this much💕Remembering the days I prayed about all I have now. #gratitude #dreams #OprahWinfrey #prettyjourney
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Oh mommy 💔
The true heroine on the #prettyjourney
TOGETHER WITH MY LOVING DAD ♥️
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ONE NIGHT WITH A FUTURE KING
An honor, true delight to have been welcomed to a celebration of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 75th anniversary gala evening at the Windsor, hosted by The Prince of Wales, Charles.The little princess in me was incredibly thrilled from excitement
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Thank you so very much. I’m still in awe of the love you all gave me last night. I will never forget it. I’ll treasure in my being for eternity♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Oh what a sterling performance @PrettyYende in Antwerp! 5 standing ovations! You are our shining star! @SAEmbassyBrusse @DIRCO_ZA @diplomacy_sa Team Brussels was there to be with you celebrating our #HeritageDay2023 hero!
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So proud of my sister @BuleloYende for winning the audience choice award and being a finalist @neuestimmen singing competition 2019 in 🇩🇪. Can’t wait to make beautiful music with you onstage in the future #mariastuarda🤗 #oneday #yendegirlslovetosing 💞
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With a heart full of happiness and eyes full of dreams sending across warmest wishes for a wonderful, happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. May the challenges of 2021 end with the beginning of this new chapter in 2022 🎇💫🎊✨🎉🎆
#CapodannoFenice #NewYear2022 #HAPPYNEWYEAR2022
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If you can my dearest friends, you can watch our concert here stage-plus.com/video/live_co…
In 5mns from now
♥️♥️♥️
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It’s our pre-closing night performance ce soir @operadeparis and I’m grateful for memorable memories shared & treasured from the stage to the audience& vice versa. #PalaisGarnierDebut #prettyjourney A big shout out to my colleagues who have been tremendously amazing to work with
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My tomorrow has come😍My debut as Juliette and the privilege of performing it first at the Metropolitan Opera Stage TONIGHT!..#PrettyJourney
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And just like that, Opening on Friday @operadeparis Palais Garnier with Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Fantastic Opera. Amazing Colleagues. Awesome Production. And Norina says Red is the color of the night at the theatre 🎭 See you all on Friday night at the opera💞🌺#prettyjourney
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I love how people I’ve never met before root for me. Thank you to you all for your immense support. It means a world to me and I’m wishing you a peaceful blessed Sunday 💞 #prettyarmy #prettyjourney 📷 @kimfoxphoto
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Mon amour Paris, merci bien. You really know how to make this girl blush. A demain soir @theatre_champs_elysees 🤗 #ovations #standingovations #lasonnambula #paris #prettyjourney 📸 @elenaanacher
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Yesterday @ 12AM, Bookings for tickets sales for my debut performances as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata @operadeparis Garnier Paris 🇫🇷 opened. Within 1hr all the tickets were sold !!! 13 performances, 7 with myself, all SOLD OUT!!!! Merci Paris, a tres bientot💞 #prettyjourney
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Giuseppe Verdi's 120th Anniversary #deathbenotproud. Grazie Verdi 💕#latraviata #vivaverdi #prettyjourney
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Thank you so so much. It was truly a humbling moment.
All Praise and Glory to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 🙏🏾🤍
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Today’s my 4th performance of my Violetta debut @operadeparis in Verdi’s La Traviata. You can watch the live stream tonight @medicitv 19.30CET bit.ly/2nMAW5d with @ben_bernheim & @MMariotti1979 conducting.Hope you enjoy😊 #simonstone #newproduction #debut #prettyjourney
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So glad that my 4th performance (with audience)of my debut as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata @operadeparis with my amazing co-star @ben_bernheim conducted by @MMariotti1979 with Director Simon Stone’s brilliant New production is on global cinema tomorrow💞#debut #prettyjourney
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Thank you so much to each and everyone who voted for me. This is a tremendous gift that I shall cherish till the ends of time. Big Thanks @TheOperaAwards and the Jury💕💕💕 @sony_classical and everyone who took part in the recording #Dreams #prettyjourney
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Words can never be enough to express how overwhelmed I was to receive your amazing force of love San Francisco for my debut @SFOpera , I almost fell into the glorious golden curtain from your beloved warmth. Join us again tomorrow for our second performance. #prettyjourney
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Goodmorning Zurich 🇨🇭 I’m extremely excited to be back to this beautiful city and singing for you tonight @operzuerich for our recital with my awesome friend and colleague Michele D’Elia (Pianist), we hope you’ll have a great night. See you tonight😊💞 #prettyjourney
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So excited for today’s live in HD @MetOpera for our production of Donizetti’s la fille du régiment. Tell me where you’re re watching from & #prettyarmy😜. Sending joyous wishes to my entire cast & crew. It’s been such a memorable experience making music with you #prettyjourney
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This young lady was absolutely amazing on her debut last night. Thank you Isabella for being an incredible inspiration for my first performance of Lucia @bay_staatsoper A big congratulations to the entire cast & crew. Munich audience, you touched my heart in a very special way💞
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Absolute pleasure being part of this iconic occasion at the Royal Albert Hall London 🇬🇧for the Classic Brits Awards 2018#prettyjourney 🇿🇦 a big shout out to my #prettyarmy for making me feel and look #pretty☺️ Dress @macduggal make up @joserodriguezuk hair @chrissybales
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2023 is going to be the BEST year yet🤗
Watch out world
#prettyarmyRELOADED🤗
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO YOU ALL FOR YOUR LOVE
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This right here, rest easy beautiful sunshine. Your voice was divinely hypnotizing but your laughter was everything. Until we meet again soon on the other side of the Sun #LaSuperba Monsteraat Caballé. You are not gone. You are more alive than ever before💞💞💞
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A tres bientot Paris😊. Merci @operadeparis💞 , next stop @operzuerich for my debut as Amina in Bellini’s La Sonnambula #prettyblessedgirl #zurichreturn #AminaDebut #prettyjourney
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“Et la victime est prête! Pour moi s'ouvre le ciel!” ‘And the victim is ready, for me the heavens are opened’- Léïla from Georges Bizet’s LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES @MetOpera The Metropolitan Opera 2018 #debutrole #prettyjourney
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The best of times...debuting Violetta @operadeparis with amazing colleagues and most exiting new production of this Verdi’s Heroine #tbt I look forward to the repeat @wienerstaatsoper soon💕 #prettyjourney #verdidebut #mytomorrowhascome #latraviata
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“In my entire career I sang the way I wanted to six times. The rest of the time I just did the best I could.” -Beverly Sills
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What a great joy to embody Léïla for the first time & honor performing it on the @MetOpera Stage. From this recording clip of this final dress morning rehearsal to our closing night tonight, it feels like a whole 🌍 @tenorjcamarena you are awesome 👏 See you soon. #prettyjourney
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Thank you so much @RoyalOperaHouse family audience, I’m wearing the smile you’ve generously gifted to me in my assignment here in London..one more last show on Monday for Don Pasquale …ps: I’m already ready for @WrStaatsoper as the bride Elvira in I Puritani 😉 #prettyjourney
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You are not stronger/better than the people who keep telling you can’t do it. The difference is that you believe. Keep believing. Feeling 💪 & excited for my return @bay_staatsoper as Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor & reunited with @tenorjcamarena #prettyjourney
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Merci bien mon amour, Paris, I’m wearing the smile you gifted me from the performances @TCEOPERA See you in June for my next performances as Amina in Bellini’s La Sonnambula, get your tickets, it’s getting sold out bit.ly/La-Somnambule #prettyjourney
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The view of my beloved Paris took my breath away this morning on the rooftop of Opera Garnier @operadeparis 🤗🤗🤗 @ted_baker 👗 #violettadebut #photoshoot #Paris #prettyjourney
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This is what’s up, I’m so excited and utterly humbled to inaugurate 2018/19 season @Liceu_cat in Barcelona 🇪🇸 Oct 5 with an incredible cast including @tenorjcamarena #MariuszKwiecien #MarcoMimica under the baton of the awesome @franklinmusik. See You there💞 #prettyjourney
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It’s been a tremendously wealthy year filled amazing music making and incredible milestones. Thank you for being part of it. 2019 promises with that much more and wondrous events. It’s a joy sharing my heart/voice/spirit/soul with you #prettyjourney
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Today is truly a special Saturday that I will have the greatest honor to inaugurate the 70th of @abaobilbaoopera in a recital tonight with my dearest and awesome colleague, Pianist @mic.delia.pianist. This marks my debut in Bilbao Spain🇪🇸 #prettyjourney
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