Tafelberg se Kleed

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Tafelberg se Kleed ("Table Mountain's Cloth") is an Afrikaans opera by Albert Coates.

Also known as Van Hunks and the Devil or The Tablecloth.


The original text

It is an opera based on local folklore and composed in 1952.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1952: Presented by the UCT Opera Company in the Cape Town City Hall as part of the Van Riebeeck Festival of Music and Drama, conducted by Albert Coates (March).

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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