Cape Town Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society
Cape Town Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society was an arts society in Cape Town.
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History
The society was in existence by 1907, and until 1912 had concentrated its efforts much more on Gilbert and Sullivan productions than on grand opera.
In 1912, the Quinlan Opera Company, in collaboration with the Cape Town Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society and its leader, the actor and impresario Leonard Rayne, performed in Cape Town for a fortnight in February and March 1912.
It is unclear if Cape Town Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society was another name for the Woodstock Amateur Operatic Society (established circa 1900) and/or Cape Town Amateur Operatic Society (active in the 1920s).
Productions
The Society staged a number of productions, including:
1913: Sherlock Holmes
Sources
Du Toit, 1988
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
Frederick Hale. 2013. The first scholarly South African interpretation of Wagner? Ramsden Balmforth's Fabian analysis of the Ring and Parsifal, Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 10:1, 53-69.
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