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 : Presented by [[NAPAC Opera]].
-: Presented by [[PACT Opera]], designed and directed by [[Neels Hansen]], with [[Barbara Veenemans]].
+: Presented by [[PACT Opera]], designed and directed by [[Neels Hansen]], with [[Barbara Veenemans]], [[Ge Korsten]] (Eisenstein).
 : Presented in Afrikaans by [[CAPAB Opera]], with [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, produced by [[Angelo Gobbato]], conducted by [[David Tidboald]].

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 : Presented by [[NAPAC Opera]].
-: Presented by [[PACT Opera]]; presented in Afrikaans by [[CAPAB Opera]], with [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, produced by [[Angelo Gobbato]], conducted by [[David Tidboald]].
+: Presented by [[PACT Opera]], designed and directed by [[Neels Hansen]], with [[Barbara Veenemans]].
 : Presented by [[CAPAB Opera]].

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 : Presented by [[PACT Opera]] in Afrikaans in the Steyn translation in the [[Aula]], Pretoria and in the [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]], with [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, [[Gé Korsten]] as Eisenstein, [[Stephen Tudor]] as Alfred, [[Barbara Veenemans]] as Adele, [[Dawie Couzyn]] as Falke, [[George Kok]] as Orlowsky and the actor [[Tobie Cronjé]] as the jailer. Produced by [[Neels Hansen]], [[PACT Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Terence Kern]].
-: Staged in English by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]] in 1981.
+: Staged in English by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]] in 1981, starring [[Sidwill Hartman]].
 : Presented by [[CAPAB Opera]] (12 December 1986 – 17 January 1987), with [[Aviva Pelham]] (the locale of the opera was changed from Vienna in Austria to Camps Bay in Cape Town, and incorporated English and Afrikaans in the libretto).

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 : Presented by [[CAPAB Opera]].
-: Presented in Afrikaans by [[PACT Opera]], with [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde and [[Gé Korsten]] as Eisenstein, produced by [[Neels Hansen]], conducted by [[Terence Kern]].
+: Presented by [[PACT Opera]] in Afrikaans in the Steyn translation in the [[Aula]], Pretoria and in the [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]], with [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, [[Gé Korsten]] as Eisenstein, [[Stephen Tudor]] as Alfred, [[Barbara Veenemans]] as Adele, [[Dawie Couzyn]] as Falke, [[George Kok]] as Orlowsky and the actor [[Tobie Cronjé]] as the jailer. Produced by [[Neels Hansen]], [[PACT Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Terence Kern]].
 : Staged in English by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]] in 1981.

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 Most often performed in the original German, it was first sung in English at London's Alhambra Theatre on 18 December 1876.
-Translated in Afrikaans by [[Bosman de Kock]].
+Translated into Afrikaans by [[Bosman de Kock]].
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 : Presented by [[CAPAB Opera]].
-: Presented in Afrikaans by [[CAPAB Opera]], with [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde and [[Gé Korsten]] as Alfred, produced by [[Angelo Gobbato]], conducted by [[David Tidboald]]; presented by [[NAPAC Opera]].
+: Presented in Afrikaans by [[CAPAB Opera]] in the [[Nico Malan Opera House]], with [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, [[Gé Korsten]] as Alfred, [[Suzanne Davies]] as Adele and [[Lawrence Folley]] sang the role of Eisenstein. [[Hans van Heerden]] and [[Philip de Vos]] sang the roles of Falke and Blind. [[Fred Dalberg]] and [[Evelyn Dalberg]] portrayed the roles of Frosch and Prince Orlofsky. Produced by [[Angelo Gobbato]], [[CAPAB Orchestra]] conducted by [[David Tidboald]].
 : Presented by [[PACT Opera]]; presented in Afrikaans by [[CAPAB Opera]], with [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, produced by [[Angelo Gobbato]], conducted by [[David Tidboald]].

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 : Presented in Afrikaans by [[PACT Opera]] at the [[Aula]], Pretoria and at the [[Civic Theatre]], Johannesburg, starring [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, [[Gert Potgieter]] as Alfred, [[Lloyd Strauss-Smith]] as Eisenstein, [[Margaretha Deysel]] as Adele and the mezzo-soprano [[Cato Brink]], wife of the producer, as Prince Orlofsky, produced by [[Peter Brenner]], conducted by [[Leo Quayle]].
-: Presented in Afrikaans by [[PACT Opera]], starring [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, produced by [[Xander Haagen]], conducted by [[Neil Chapman]].
+: Presented in Afrikaans by [[PACT Opera]], starring [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, [[Gert Potgieter]] as Alfred, [[Ralie Meyer]] as Adele, [[Jules Borowsky]] as Eisenstein and [[Louis van der Walt]] as Prince Orlofsky. Produced by [[Xander Haagen]], [[PACT Orchestra]] conducted by [[Neil Chapman]]. Also taken on tour to the rural areas of the Transvaal (between 1 and 9 March 1968) with eight performances in the following towns: Germiston, Brakpan, Tzaneen, Louis Trichard, Pietersburg and Nylstroom.
 : Presented by [[CAPAB Opera]].

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 : Presented by [[PACOFS Opera]].
-: Presented in Afrikaans by [[PACT Opera]], starring [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, produced by [[Peter Brenner]], conducted by [[Leo Quayle]].
+: Presented in Afrikaans by [[PACT Opera]] at the [[Aula]], Pretoria and at the [[Civic Theatre]], Johannesburg, starring [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, [[Gert Potgieter]] as Alfred, [[Lloyd Strauss-Smith]] as Eisenstein, [[Margaretha Deysel]] as Adele and the mezzo-soprano [[Cato Brink]], wife of the producer, as Prince Orlofsky, produced by [[Peter Brenner]], conducted by [[Leo Quayle]].
 : Presented in Afrikaans by [[PACT Opera]], starring [[Nellie du Toit]] as Rosalinde, produced by [[Xander Haagen]], conducted by [[Neil Chapman]].

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	Most often performed in the original German, it was first sung in English at London's Alhambra Theatre on 18 December 1876.		Most often performed in the original German, it was first sung in English at London's Alhambra Theatre on 18 December 1876.
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		+	Translated in Afrikaans by [[Bosman de Kok]].

	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==