Masimba Ushe
Masimba Ushe holds a Master’s in Vocal Studies from the Royal Academy of Music.
He has performed roles including Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Colline (La Boheme), Alcade (La Forza del Destino), The Keeper of the Madhouse (The Rake’s Progress) and Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring).
He has been bass chorus in Porgy and Bess (Grange Park Opera), Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe and Utopia Limited (National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company), Acis and Galatea (Opera Holland Park), Manon Lescaut, The Rake’s Progress, Il Viaggio a Reims covering Don Prudenzio, Lucrezia Borgia covering Gubetta, (English Touring Opera), Kurt Weill’s Love Life (Opera North). He was the Muddier in The Wish Gatherer and Benjamin Disraeli in The Great Stink (English Touring Opera).
He performed Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia as a 2024 Opera Holland Park Young Artist.
He has recently been Lorenzo in English Touring Opera’s The Capulets & The Montagues.