Zanne Stapelberg

Zanne Stapelberg (12 August 1977) is a South African musician.

Zanne Stapelberg was born in Bellville, in 1977, and grew up in the suburb of Durbanville. She matriculated on Durbanville High School.

Stapelberg began her operatic training at the Conservatoire of Stellenbosch University (with Magdalena Oosthuizen) and graduated in 1998 with a degree in Music and English Literature. The university also awarded her with various academic achievement and singing bursaries. In 1999 she obtained her Higher Licentiate in Musical Performance Cum Laude.

In 2000, Stapelberg became a member of the Cape Town Opera Studio. In 2001 she received the Best Young Opera Singer Award from the Cape Town Friends of the Opera.

Operatic roles include Angelica in Suor Angelica, Mimì in Puccini's La bohème, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Ilia in Mozart's, Idomeneo, Marguerite in Gounod's, Faust, Handel's Alcina, and Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.

Her oratorio repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Mozart's Dixit Dominus and Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Dvořák's Requiem, Carla in William Kentridge's Confessions of Zeno, composed by Kevin Volans, as well as the Aqua Opera at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in 2003 and 2004.

Other stage performances include Marthinus Basson's staging of Stravinsky's Pulcinella.