Acis and Galatea
Acis and Galatea is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a "little opera", an entertainment and by the New Grove Dictionary of Music as an oratorio.
Performance history in South Africa
1949: Presented in costume by the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra on 10 November 1949 in the Cape Town City Hall. Geoffrey Miller conducted this production and Albina Bini, Boris Rome and Gregorio Fiasconaro were the soloists, the chorus consisting of members of the Philharmonic Choir under Leslie Arnold, and the Diocesan College and Madrigal choirs under Claude Brown.
Sources
Sjoerd Alkema. 2012. "Conductors of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, 1914-1965: a historical perspective". University of Cape Town. Unpublished PhD thesis.
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