Zanne Stapelberg (August 12, 1977) is a South African soprano.
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Zanne Stapelberg was born in Cape Town in 1977, and grew up in the suburb of Durbanville.
Stapelberg began her operatic training at the Conservatoire of Stellenbosch University (with Magdalena Oosthuizen) and graduated in 1998 with a degree in Music and English Literature. The university also awarded her with various academic achievement and singing bursaries. In 1999 she obtained her Higher Licentiate in Musical Performance Cum Laude.
In 2000 Stapelberg became a member of the Cape Town Opera Studio. In 2001 she received the Best Young Opera Singer Award from the Cape Town Friends of the Opera.
Operatic roles include Angelica in Suor Angelica, Mimi in Puccini's La bohème, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, Handel's Alcina, and Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.
Her oratorio repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Mozart's Dixit Dominus and Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Dvořák's Requiem, Carla in William Kentridge's Confessions of Zeno, composed by Kevin Volans, as well as the Aqua Opera at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in 2003 and 2004.
Other stage performances include Marthinus Basson's staging of Stravinsky's Pulcinella.
Stapelberg has collaborated with South African composer Hendrik Hofmeyr, on his Byzantium for soprano and orchestra, The Death of Cleopatra and various of his song cycles. One of them, Die Stil Avontuur, comprising settings of works by South African poet, Elizabeth Eybers, was composed specifically for Stapelberg's voice.
Apart from her operatic and concert performances, Stapelberg is also involved in various creative stage projects with her company Long Tall Women Productions; in 2006 she launched her opera-cabaret, Zanne.
Stapelberg currently resides in Cape Town with her husband, Jomar de Lange.