Angelo Gobbato - Revision history

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Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

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Career

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	[[Hilde Roos]]. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. [[Stellenbosch University]].		[[Hilde Roos]]. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. [[Stellenbosch University]].

−	~~https://www~~.~~cambridge~~.~~org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/article/modernday-florestan-fidelio~~-on~~-robben-island-~~and-~~south~~-~~africas-early-democratic-project/1D4DB27A66C7650C27FAB72905F31769~~	+	J.M. Pistorius. 'A Modern-Day Florestan: Fidelio on Robben Island and South Africa’s Early Democratic Project'. ''Twentieth-Century Music''. 2023; 20(1): 107-125.

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	[[Hilde Roos]]. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. [[Stellenbosch University]].		[[Hilde Roos]]. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. [[Stellenbosch University]].
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		+	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/article/modernday-florestan-fidelio-on-robben-island-and-south-africas-early-democratic-project/1D4DB27A66C7650C27FAB72905F31769

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 : ''[[Amarantha]]'' for [[Cape Town Opera]] and [[UCT Opera School]]
-: ''[[Fidelio]]'' for [[Cape Town Opera]]
+: ''[[Fidelio on Robben Island]]'' for [[Cape Town Opera]]
 ==Awards==

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	2000: ''[[Amarantha]]'' for [[Cape Town Opera]] and [[UCT Opera School]]		2000: ''[[Amarantha]]'' for [[Cape Town Opera]] and [[UCT Opera School]]
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		+	2004: ''[[Fidelio]]'' for [[Cape Town Opera]]

	==Awards==		==Awards==

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	1968: Moralès in ''[[Carmen]]'' ([[CAPAB]]), Sir Tristam Mickleford in ''[[Martha]]'' ([[CAPAB]])		1968: Moralès in ''[[Carmen]]'' ([[CAPAB]]), Sir Tristam Mickleford in ''[[Martha]]'' ([[CAPAB]])
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		+	1971: Papageno in ''[[Die Towerfluit]]'' ([[CAPAB Opera]])

	1972: Sigismund in ''[[White Horse Inn]]'' ([[CAPAB]])		1972: Sigismund in ''[[White Horse Inn]]'' ([[CAPAB]])

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 Other roles include:
-: Moralès in ''[[Carmen]]'' ([[CAPAB]])
+: Moralès in ''[[Carmen]]'' ([[CAPAB]]),  Sir Tristam Mickleford in ''[[Martha]]'' ([[CAPAB]])
 : Sigismund in ''[[White Horse Inn]]'' ([[CAPAB]])

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 : Sigismund in ''[[White Horse Inn]]'' ([[CAPAB]])
-: He appeared in ''[[The Bear]]'' and ''[[Three's Company]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]].
+: He appeared in ''[[The Bear]]'' and ''[[Three's Company]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]]).
 : Alcindoro  in ''[[La Bohème in District Six]]'' ([[Suidoosterfees]])

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 ===As actor/singer===
-He made his debut as Kecal in ''[[The Bartered Bride]]'' in Cape Town in 1965. He appeared in ''[[The Bear]]'' and ''[[Three's Company]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]] at the [[Baxter Concert Hall]]) in 1978. He is best known for buffo roles such as Dr Bartolo in ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'', Don Pasquale and Figaro.
+He made his debut as Kecal in ''[[The Bartered Bride]]'' in Cape Town in 1965. He is best known for buffo roles such as Dr Bartolo in ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'', Don Pasquale and Figaro.
 Other roles include:
-: Sigismund in ''[[White Horse Inn]]'' (CAPAB)
+: Moralès in ''[[Carmen]]'' ([[CAPAB]])
 : Alcindoro  in ''[[La Bohème in District Six]]'' ([[Suidoosterfees]])

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 ==Career==
-Gobbato's association with [[CAPAB Opera]] began in 1965 when he made his debut in ''[[The Bartered Bride]]''. Angelo Gobbato was appointed Director of [[CAPAB Opera]] in January 1989, and continued as Director until 1999 when [[CAPAB Opera]] closed.
+Gobbato's association with [[CAPAB Opera]] began in 1965 when he made his debut in ''[[The Bartered Bride]]''. He was resident producer at the [[Nico Malan Opera House]] in Cape Town (1976-81). Angelo Gobbato was appointed Director of [[CAPAB Opera]] in January 1989, and continued as Director until 1999 when [[CAPAB Opera]] closed.
 From the mid-1980s he openly advocated the potential of black opera singers in Cape Town’s townships. Together with the then chorus master [[Vetta Wise]] and composer [[Michael Williams]], he developed [[CAPAB]]’s choral programmes through which they gained access to black singers from 1988 onwards. His vision for opera in Cape Town included making opera accessible for people living in the townships.
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 In 1995, he initiated [[CAPAB]]'s first Opera Festival.
-He was director of the [[UCT Opera School]].
+He was director of the [[UCT Opera School]] (1982-88).
 Gobbato retired from [[Cape Town Opera]] in 2005, and from the [[UCT Opera School]] in 2009.

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 ===As director/producer===
-He was resident producer at the [[Nico Malan Opera House]] in Cape Town (1976-81) and head of the opera school of the [[University of Cape Town]] (1982-88). In 1989 he was appointed director of opera for the [[Cape Performing Arts Board]]. He has directed - mainly from the Italian repertory - for all the arts councils in South Africa.
+He has directed - mainly from the Italian repertory - for all the arts councils in South Africa.
 Productions as director/producer include: