Musa Ngqungwana, Bass-Baritone

Bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana, a native of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, has been praised by The New York Times for his “rich, glowing voice and elegant legato,” and by The Wall Street Journal as “a powerful bass-baritone.”

This season, Musa appears as Lord Krishna in Satyagraha at the English National Opera, as Pizarro in Fidelio and in Sanctuary Road at North Carolina Opera, as Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love at Palm Beach Opera, and as Rocco in Fidelio: A Celebratory Gala Production at Austin Opera. He will also appear as Vodnik in Rusalka at Edinburgh International Festival and Garsington Opera.

Highlights of recent engagements include singing the title role of Porgy and Bess at The Glimmerglass Festival, Washington National Opera, Atlanta Opera, Grange Park Opera, and Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra; appearing as Leporello in Don Giovanni with Pittsburgh Opera; the King in Aida with Houston Grand Opera; the Wanderer in Wagner’s Siegfried with North Carolina Opera; Paolo Albiani in Washington Concert Opera’s production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra; Queequeg in Moby Dick at Los Angeles Opera, Dallas Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Utah Opera; Lescaut in Manon Lescaut at Dallas Opera; Zuniga in Carmen at Philadelphia Opera, Norwegian National Opera, and Palm Beach Opera; and King Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with On Site Opera.