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Co-founder of the [[Opera Society of South Africa]] in 1956. | Co-founder of the [[Opera Society of South Africa]] in 1956. | ||
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Anton Hartman (1918-1982). [1]. Conductor.
First conductor of the Krugersdorp Municipal Theatrical and Orchestral Society (KMTOS) which had been formed by the incorporation of the West-Rand Symphony Orchestra into the Krugersdorp Municipal Dramatic and Operatic Society (KMDOS).
Co-founder of the Opera Society of South Africa in 1956.
Hartman translated John Joubert's opera, In the Drought, into Afrikaans and it was subsequently performed as In die Droogte and staged by the South African Opera Federation in Johannesburg in 1958.
Sources
(See Du Toit, 1988) [JH]
Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.
Tucker, 1997.
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