Gregorio Fiasconaro - Revision history

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 : ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
-: ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
+: ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' and ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' (both for [[CAPAB Opera]])
 : ''[[La traviata]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]

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 : ''[[La Bohème]]'', ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Cavalleria Rusticana]]'' (all for the [[EOAN Group]])
-: ''[[La bohème]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
+: ''[[La bohème]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]/[[UCT Opera Company]]
 : ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]

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 : He played Tadh Beag in [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera ''[[The Inland Woman]]'' at the Little Theatre.
-: Marcello in
+: Marcello in ''[[La Boheme]]'' ([[UCT Opera Company]]/[[CAPAB Opera]])
 ====Film====

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 ===As actor===
-He played Tadh Beag in [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera ''[[The Inland Woman]]'' at the Little Theatre in 1953.
+: He played Tadh Beag in [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera ''[[The Inland Woman]]'' at the Little Theatre.
 His sole film appearance was as "Mario" in the 1972 [[Emil Nofal]] film ''[[The Winners]]'' (released in the USA as ''[[My Way]]'', 1974)

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	1952: He directed the production of [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera, ''[[Dark Sonnet]]'', for the [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]].		1952: He directed the production of [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera, ''[[Dark Sonnet]]'', for the [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]].
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		+	1953: 5 operas presented on tour to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe): ''[[Gianni Schicchi]]'', ''[[La serva padrona]]'', ''[[Il segreto di Susanna]]'', ''[[The Telephone]]'', ''[[The Medium]]'' (all [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]]).

	1960: ''[[La Bohème]]'', ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Cavalleria Rusticana]]'' (all for the [[EOAN Group]])		1960: ''[[La Bohème]]'', ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Cavalleria Rusticana]]'' (all for the [[EOAN Group]])

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 : ''[[La serva padrona]]'', ''[[Suor Angelica]]'' (both for the [[South African College of Music]])
-: He directed the production of [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera, [[Dark Sonnet]], for the [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]].
+: He directed the production of [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera, ''[[Dark Sonnet]]'', for the [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]].
 : ''[[La Bohème]]'', ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Cavalleria Rusticana]]'' (all for the [[EOAN Group]])

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	===As director===		===As director===
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		+	1951: ''[[La serva padrona]]'', ''[[Suor Angelica]]'' (both for the [[South African College of Music]])

	1952: He directed the production of [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera, [[Dark Sonnet]], for the [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]].		1952: He directed the production of [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera, [[Dark Sonnet]], for the [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]].

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-[[Gregorio Fiasconaro]] (?-1994) was a baritone, opera director, film actor and the first director of the University of Cape Town's Opera School.
+[[Gregorio Fiasconaro]] (1915-1994) was a baritone, opera director, film actor and the first director of the University of Cape Town's Opera School.
 ==Biography==
-Born in Castelbuono, Sicily, and made his debut as a singer in the children's choir in ''[[La Bohéme]]''. His career was interrupted when he became a pilot for Italy during World War II, and was shot down over East Africa and taken to South Africa as a prisoner of war. He married Mabel Marie, a South African woman from Pietermaritzburg, whom he had met while interred, and settled in Cape Town as a singer and teacher, where he was eventually appointed professor of music at the University of Cape Town. They had one son, [[Marcello Fiasconaro]].
+Born in Castelbuono, Sicily, and made his debut as a singer in the children's choir in ''[[La Bohéme]]''. He studied at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. His career was interrupted when he became a pilot for Italy during World War II, and was shot down over East Africa and taken to South Africa as a prisoner of war. He married Mabel Marie, a South African woman from Pietermaritzburg, whom he had met while interred. They had one son, [[Marcello Fiasconaro]].
 He died in Cape Town in 1994.

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 ===As director===
-- He directed the production of [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera, [[Dark Sonnet]], for the [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]].
+: He directed the production of [[Erik Chisholm]]'s opera, [[Dark Sonnet]], for the [[University of Cape Town Opera Company]].
-- ''[[La Bohème]]'', ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Cavalleria Rusticana]]'' (all for the [[EOAN Group]])
+: ''[[La Bohème]]'', ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Cavalleria Rusticana]]'' (all for the [[EOAN Group]])
-– ''[[La bohème]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
+: ''[[La bohème]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
-– ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
+: ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
-– ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
+: ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
-– ''[[La traviata]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
+: ''[[La traviata]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]]
-– ''[[Otello]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]], ''[[Dialogues of the Carmelites]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]])
+: ''[[Otello]]'' for [[CAPAB Opera]], ''[[Dialogues of the Carmelites]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]])
--  ''[[Albert Herring]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]]), ''[[The Bear]]'' and ''[[Three's Company]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]])
+:  ''[[Albert Herring]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]]), ''[[The Bear]]'' and ''[[Three's Company]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]])
-- ''[[La Boheme]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]])
+: ''[[La Boheme]]'' ([[UCT Opera School]])
 ===As actor===

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	[[Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow]][http://classicsa.co.za/site/listings/view/classicsa_sabina_mossolow_soprano/?s=musicians&f=ind&m=2&ms=1]. 2003. ''The career of South African soprano [[Nellie du Toit]], born 1929''. Unpublished Masters thesis. [[University of Stellenbosch]].[http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/16394]		[[Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow]][http://classicsa.co.za/site/listings/view/classicsa_sabina_mossolow_soprano/?s=musicians&f=ind&m=2&ms=1]. 2003. ''The career of South African soprano [[Nellie du Toit]], born 1929''. Unpublished Masters thesis. [[University of Stellenbosch]].[http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/16394]
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		+	[[Hilde Roos]]. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. [[Stellenbosch University]].

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