Masimba Ushe holds a Masters’ degree in Vocal Studies from the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed various 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).
Masimba was in the 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). He was the Muddier in The Wish Gatherer and Benjamin Disraeli in The Great Stink, the first two instalments of English Touring Opera’s trilogy of Climate Change operas. In 2023 he was an Opera Up Close Associate Artist covering Captain Dee in The Flying Dutchman.
Masimba was part of the Pegasus Mentoring Programme 2023/2024 in partnership with Glyndebourne and as a 2024 Opera Holland Park Young Artist performed the role of Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. He also sang bass in the quartet for Opera North’s production of Kurt Weill’s Love Life.
Most recently he has been playing Lorenzo in English Touring Opera’s The Capulets & The Montagues.
