Belinda (Metlitzky) Silbert
South African Soprano
Belinda (Metlitzky) Silbert was born in Johannesburg and
lived
in Pretoria, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem; Brighton and Hove before settling in
Cape Town. Belinda is a Futurist and mystic who is a household name
because of her television programmes (“Making Contact” SABC 3 and “Your
Date with Destiny ETV) and her past regular radio slot on KFM 94.5
She has appeared on “Three Talk” (SABC 3), “Free Spirit”, “The Fat Joe
Show”, ETV “Morning Live”, and “The World News”. She had her live show
“Cross over and Connect with Belinda” at the Baxter. Radio interviews
have included Cape Talk-702, Lotus FM, SAFM, Metro, Radio Algoa, and
KFM.
Belinda studied opera at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, Israel
and her mentor was the late soprano Joyce Barker at the University of
the Witwatersrand where Belinda was awarded the “Abraham and Olga Lipman
Music Scholarship”.
Highlights of 2010: The role of the Hebrew Priestess in “Silence of the
Music”, participation in the inaugural Muze Women’s Fest and her show
“Hearing Goddess”. Belinda premiered Professor Peter Klatzow’s “Lamento
Vocalise” in the latter part of 2010. This work was written for her by
the renowned composer.
Specialties: she is entranced by the mysteries of the Universe, Quantum
Physics, Technology, Philosophy, Futurism, Transhumanism, Secular
Humanism, and “The Singularity”. She has a fascination with alternative
futures and the nature of Consciousness and is inspired by the
prospect of a post-human era in which we have a myriad of choices as to
what form our Consciousness can inhabit: i.e. corporeal, wholly
synthetic, digital, or disembodied.
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A Survival Kit for the Hereafter.
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