Monika Voysey, mezzo

Monika Voysey recently completed a two-year post in The Cape Town Opera Studio as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Opera at The University of Cape Town. She now works as a free-lance opera singer and music teacher nationwide.

In 2006, Monika was awarded a scholarship to study at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In 2007, she was a semi-finalist and prize-winner in The South African Music Rights Organization Singing Competition. She also won a bursary for overseas studies from The National Arts Council 

In July 2011, Monika spent a month in Germany taking part in the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival and worked with International choirs, conductors and orchestras. She has also started the popular company: ‘Sing for your supper.’ This is an organisation that combines dinner parties with a narrated opera concert. They are held all over South Africa at wine farms, event venues and even beautiful homes.

Monika has worked with various orchestras such as the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kwa-Zulu Natal Orchestra. She has sung under the baton of conductors such as Barry Smith, Kamal Kahn and Jonas Alber. Her recent Oratorio performances include Handel's Messiah, Bach's St John's Passion, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Vivaldi's Gloria. Her Operatic roles include Melibea in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims, Marcellina in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Alisa in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Baroness Nicholson in the world premiere of Ndodana-Breen's Winnie: The Opera.