Michael Williams - Revision history

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 In April 1991, Williams assisted the international director Sonja Frisell in Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' at the [[Nico]]. He also directed Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' at the [[Nico Opera House]] in August 1993.
-Other productions as director include ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La bohéme noir]]'', ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'', ''[[Lohingrin]]'', ''[[Cosi fan tutte]]'', ''[[La traviata]]'', ''[[Turandot]]'', ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'', ''[[Pagliacci]]'', ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]'', ''[[Faust]]'', ''[[Aqua Opera 2004]]'', and ''[[Carmen]]''.
+Other productions as director include ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La bohéme noir]]'', ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'', ''[[Lohengrin]]'', ''[[Cosi fan tutte]]'', ''[[La traviata]]'', ''[[Turandot]]'', ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'', ''[[Pagliacci]]'', ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]'', ''[[Faust]]'', ''[[Aqua Opera 2004]]'', and ''[[Carmen]]''.
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	In April 1991, Williams assisted the international director Sonja Frisell in Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' at the [[Nico]]. He also directed Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' at the [[Nico Opera House]] in August 1993.		In April 1991, Williams assisted the international director Sonja Frisell in Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' at the [[Nico]]. He also directed Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' at the [[Nico Opera House]] in August 1993.
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		+	Other productions as director include ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La bohéme noir]]'', ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'', ''[[Lohingrin]]'', ''[[Cosi fan tutte]]'', ''[[La traviata]]'', ''[[Turandot]]'', ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'', ''[[Pagliacci]]'', ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]'', ''[[Faust]]'', ''[[Aqua Opera 2004]]'', and ''[[Carmen]]''.

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	* ''[[Siddartha, Birth of a Dream]]''		* ''[[Siddartha, Birth of a Dream]]''
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−	* ''[[Animals]]'' (music by [[Allan Stephenson]])

	* ''[[The Milkbird]]'' (1988)		* ''[[The Milkbird]]'' (1988)

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 * ''[[Tiger Bay The Musical]]'' (music by Daf James, 2017)
 He has written operas for young people based on African mythology (published by [[Heinemann Press]] in the anthology ''South African Operas for Young People''), as well as the libretti for symphonic operas that have premiered around the world.
 ===Plays===

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	[[Ivan Meredith]]. 2006. 'Opera in South Africa during the first democratic decade'. Unpublished Masters thesis. [[University of Cape Town]].		[[Ivan Meredith]]. 2006. 'Opera in South Africa during the first democratic decade'. Unpublished Masters thesis. [[University of Cape Town]].
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 * ''[[Wonderfully Wicked]]'' (music by [[Allan Stephenson]], 2005)
-* ''[[Poet and Prophetess]]'' (music by Larsson Gothe, 2008)
+* ''[[Poet and Prophetess]]'' (music by Larsson Gothe, 2008) (commissioned by NorlandOperan in Sweden)
 * ''[[Mandela Trilogy]]'' (music by [[Allan Stephenson]], [[Peter Louis Van Dijk]] and [[Mike Campbell]], 2010)

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 He worked as assistant producer for [[PACT Opera]] where he created programmes for the local communities and schools.
-One of these was ''[[The Milkbird]]'', an opera for children in the townships. When he joined [[CAPAB Opera]] in 1990 he restaged
+One of these was ''[[The Milkbird]]'', an opera for children in the townships. When he joined [[CAPAB Opera]] as assistant director in 1990 he restaged a new version of ''[[The Milkbird]]''. He has assisted on numerous productions in Cape Town, including ''[[Don Carlo]]'',
 ''[[Hansel und Gretel]]'', ''[[Cosi fan Tutte]]'', ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', ''[[Il Barbiere di Siviglia]]'', ''[[La Boheme]]'' and ''[[Madama Butterfly]]''.

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 * ''[[Animals]]'' (music by [[Allan Stephenson]])
-* ''[[The Milkbird]]''
+* ''[[The Milkbird]]'' (1988)
 * ''[[The Seven-Headed Snake]]'' (1991) which was performed at schools in the southern and northern Cape Province and in townships in the Cape Peninsula. This opera was also performed at the Standard Bank Festival of Arts in Grahamstown, together with ''[[The Milkbird]]''