Lonwabo Mose

Bass-Baritone | Cape Town, South Africa | Age 26 | Second Year 

Lonwabo Mose is a bass-baritone from Cape Town, South Africa, currently in his second year in the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, during which he will make his Met debut as Happy in La Fanciulla del West and cover the King of Egypt in the company revival of Aida. Last season at the Met, he performed in the Program’s annual recital series held at Merkin Hall, the Met Orchestra workshop with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Met’s Summer Parks Recital Series as part of the City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage Festival. During his tenure in the Judith Nielson Young Artists Program at Cape Town Opera, he performed several roles including High Priest Ramfis in Aida, Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Sviglia, Raimondo Bidebent in Lucia di Lammermoor, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Angelotti in Tosca, and Doctor Grenvil in La Traviata. Additional roles include both Littore and Seneca in L’Incoronazione di Poppea with the Saluzzo Opera Academy, Spinelloccio in Gianni Schicchi with SA Operatunity in Cape Town, and Luddud in Treemonisha. On the concert stage, he appeared as the bass soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with Cape Town Opera as well as several local concerts and recitals in the Cape Town area. He was a 2025 participant in the Hans Gabor Belvedere International Singing Competition, where he was awarded engagements with Bühnen Bern and the Metropolitan Opera. He is an alumnus of the Judith Nielson Young Artists Program at Cape Town Opera and Saluzzo Opera Academy.