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Pumeza Matshikiza (born 27 February in Lady Frere, South Africa) is a South-African operatic soprano. A graduate of the Royal College of Music and a member of the Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists Programme from to , she made her début as a flower maiden in Parsifal and has gone on to sing leading soprano roles with Stuttgart Opera.

Matshikiza has released two solo albums on the Decca Classics label.

Pumeza studied at the University of Cape Town College of Music, graduated cum laude under Professor Virginia Davids, then at the Royal College of Music, London, with a full three-year scholarship and in the Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where she made her début as a flower maiden in Parsifal.

Winner of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition in Dublin in , Pumeza later joined the Stuttgart Opera, where she has been part of the full-time ensemble since , performing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Susanna in Le n