Themba Mvula

Themba Mvula was born in Zambia and completed his training at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he won the Gordon Clinton English Song Prize. 

In 2020 he sang Frazier Porgy and Bess (Theater an der Wien), having worked as a soloist and member of the Olivier Award-winning ensemble at ENO. Other engagements include: Papageno The Magic Flute Lite and Marullo Rigoletto (Opera North); Schaunard La bohème (ETO); Dancaïre Carmen (Opera Holland Park); Assan The Consul (WNO); Millworker Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Birmingham Opera Company); Belcore The Elixir of Love (King’s Head Theatre); and Guglielmo Così fan tutte (Ensemble OrQuesta). 

He has also created roles in contemporary works, including the title role in Robert Fokkens and Mkhululi Mabija’s Bhekizizwe. He also starred as Vithobai in Louis Mander and Stephen Fry’s The Life to Come (Surrey Opera).

Recent engagements include: Magician | Interlocutor Love Life (Opera North), Dom Link in my Bio (Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Britten Pears Arts); and The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Manchester International Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Bregenzer Festspiele, touring to the Netherlands, Germany and New York).