Golda Schultz Soprano

South African soprano Golda Schultz lit up the 2020 BBC Last Night of the Proms with a showcase of Mozart, Strauss, songs from musicals and the evening’s traditional anthems. A journalism graduate, she studied voice in Cape Town and at New York’s Juilliard School before moving to Munich to sing with Bayerische Staatsoper. In December she performs with the company as Agathe in Weber’s Der Freischütz .

I have my dad. My poor parents! At the beginning of ‘Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes’ there’s a wonderful intro, just Ladysmith Black Mambazo harmonising beautifully, and then Paul Simon leads the chant. It’s an iconic moment of call and response – the image of an American man calling down to Africa and Africa calls back. When I moved to Munich to become a member of Bayerische Staatsoper, I bought my first record player and hunted down a copy of . It transported me back to those long drives through the Namibian desert, and the sight of the antelope running.