Enoch, Prophet of God
Enoch, Prophet of God is an opera composed by Roelof Temmingh (1946–2012) with a libretto by Michael Williams.
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The original text
Relating the true events of the Bulhoek massacre in the Eastern Cape in 1921 when a lay priest, Enoch Mgijima, and his church followers, called the Israelites, were killed by police after they had supposedly illegally occupied a farm.
According to Muller, the first locally composed opera performed by an arts council.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1995: Presented by CAPAB Opera (24 January – 4 February), with Fikile Mvinjelwa singing the title role.
Sources
Wayne Muller. 'How South Africans forged a path to making opera truly African'. The Conversation. 29 January 2019
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 Unpublished PhD thesis.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. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).
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