Love and Green Onions
Love and Green Onions is a jazz opera composed by Denzil Weale with a libretto by Michael Williams an orchestration by Peter McLea.
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The original text
Based on Zakes Mda’s novel Ways of Dying. The music includes indigenous styles such as kwela, kwaito and marabi songs.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2001: Presented by Cape Town Opera at the National Arts Festival (June 28 and 30) and at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town (19–28 July), featuring Gloria Bosman, Marcus Desando and Fikile Mvinjelwa and Cape Town Opera Vocal Ensemble. Directed by Michael Williams. Conducted by Graham Scott. Chorus Master: Allan Stephenson.
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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
Ivan Meredith. 2006. 'Opera in South Africa during the first democratic decade'. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of Cape Town.
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