A Slave in Araby
A Slave in Araby is a comic opera in Two Acts by Alfred J. Silver and Stanley Guise
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1949: Presented by the EOAN Group in the Cape Town City Hall, featuring a cast of seventy five performers, starring May Abrahamse in her first principal role. It was staged together with the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra.
Sources
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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.
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