In his young career, Levy Sekgapane has already developed two signature roles: Il Conte Almaviva in Il BARBIEREDI SIVIGLIA, which he sang in a new production at Glyndebourne Opera Festival, at Opéra national de Paris, at Vienna State Opera, at German Opera Berlin and Opéra national de Bordeaux. On the other hand, Don Ramiro in LA CENERENTOLA, which he performed in productions at Munich State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Los Angeles Opera and at Opera Zürich, where he shared the stage with Cecilia Bartoli.

Levy Sekgapane opens the 2025/26 season returning to Opernhaus Zürich to sing Dorvil in LA SCALA DI SETA. At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, he sings Don Ramiro in LA CENERENTOLA, followed by Nemorino in L'ELISIR D'AMORE at the Latvian National Opera in Riga. Highlights of the season include his Canadian debut singing Handel’s MESSIAH with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and a return to the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl as Elvino in LA SONNAMBULA. He makes his house debut at the Hungarian National Opera in Budapest as Ernesto in DON PASQUALE and his role debut as Oreste in ERMIONE at Opéra de Marseille. He also returns to the US to sing Il Conte Almaviva in IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA at San Francisco Opera. On the concert stage, he performs CARMINA BURANA at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and a gala concert at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. Recital appearances include the Musikfest Ernen and Tivoli in Copenhagen.

Last season, Levy added another Mozart role to his repertoire with the title role in MITRIDATE (Teatro alla Scala, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Opéra de Montpellier). He sang Il Conte Almaviva at the Opéra national de Paris and returned to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées as Lindoro in L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI. At La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, he reprised the role of Jonah in THE TIME OF OUR SINGING, and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, he performed Mozart’s REQUIEM.

In the past years, he debuted several new roles, like I PURITANI at Théâtre des Champs-Elysees, OTELLO (Rossini) at Frankfurt Opera, LA SONNAMBULA in Munich and LES PECHEURSDE PERLES at Cape Town Opera. Other highlights of his young career include his debut at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg singing the first New-Year’s-Eve-Gala concert ever with Olga Peretyatko under the baton of James Conlon. He sang ADINA at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, ENRICO DI BORGOGNA at Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, IDOMENEO at Salzburg Festival and L’ELISIRD’AMORE during the Whitsun Festival at State Theatre Wiesbaden.

Born in Kroonstad, South Africa, Levy Sekgapane studied under Kamal Khan and Hanna van Niekerk at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town and joined the Young Ensemble at Semperoper Dresden afterwards. Levy is 1^st prize winner of the International Belvedere singing competition (2015), of the Monserrat Caballé singing competition (2015)and of Placido Domingo’s OPERALIA (2017). In 2019, his first solo CD with Rossini arias was released by Prima Classic – recorded with the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti.

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