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[[Venus and Adonis]] is the story of the encounter between the Roman goddess of love (Venus) and a boy hunter (Adonis).

==The original text==

The original source is Ovid’s ''Metamorphoses'' (Book 10) where a wounded Adonis is killed by a wild boar and transformed into an anemone flower, with Venus willingly loved by Adonis. Shakespeare wrote his own version of ''Venus and Adonis'' (1593), a comic, erotic, and tragic narrative poem where an indifferent Adonis rejects the goddess's advances to go hunting.

===International stage versions===

* ''[[Venus and Adonis]]'' is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the English Baroque composer John Blow, composed between 1681 - 1684.

* ''[[Vénus et Adonis]]'' is an opera in a prologue and 5 acts composed by Henri Desmarets to a libretto by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, it was first performed by the Académie Royale de Musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 28 July 1697.

===South African stage versions===

== Performance history in South Africa ==

== Sources ==

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(opera)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vénus_et_Adonis

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-[[Isango Ensemble]] created their own version ''[[Venus and Adonis]]'', which was performed at Shakespeare's Globe in London in 2012 and again in 2013.
+[[Isango Ensemble]] created their own version ''[[Venus and Adonis]]'' with music composed by [[Mandisi Dyantyis]], which was performed at Shakespeare's Globe in London in 2012 and again in 2013.
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