Aviva Pelham
Aviva Pelham (1948-). Actor, singer, director.
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Aviva Pelham has performed in a wide music from the repertoire of opera, musicals, operetta, oratorio and cabaret.
She has dominated the stage as Violetta in “La Traviata”, or Rosina in “Barber of Seville” and is equally at home as Musetta in “La Boheme”, Susanna in “Marriage of Figaro”, Gilda in “Rigoletto”, Norina in “Don Pasquale”, Marcellina in “Fidelio”, Adina in “L’Elisir D’Amore”, Zerlina in “Don Giovanni”, Oscar in “Un Ballo in Maschera” receiving consistently rave reviews.
In addition, she has starred in the leading roles in operettas including “Die Fledermaus”, "La Belle Helene", "La Perichole", "Night in Venice", “Student Prince”, “Great Waltz”, Yum Yum in “Mikado” and “Merry Widow” as well as countless musicals such as “My Fair Lady”, “Sound of Music”, “The King & 1”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Man of La Mancha”, “Kiss Me Kate”, “Into the Woods” and “Kismet” notching up over two thousand performances and delighting audiences all over the world.
She starred in CAPAB’s productions of Rigoletto 1981 with Lawrence Folley, Andrea Haller, My Fair Lady in 1989/90 and The Mikado Gilbert & Sullivan’s, (Dir) Murray Dickie & Andy Gibson, Designer: Bruno Santini, Evelyn Dalberg, Marilyn Bennett, Sally Presant, Andrea Haller, Manuel Escorcio, (Christine Reynolds’s chorus)conductor: Michael Tomaschek, Terence Kern, De Wet van Rooyen, Fritz Morley, Henry Lankester, John Eagar, Miranda Kark.
Sources
Tucker, 1997.
Aviva Pelham Home Page [www.avivapelham.co.za].
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