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[[Mr. Bonamici]] (fl. 1890's) was an impresario active in Cape Town for a while.
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#REDIRECT[[Arturo Bonamici]]
 
 
== Biography ==
 
 
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
 
 
He brought various acts to Cape Town , [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923) recording the following events put on in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, under his auspices in 1894-5:
 
 
 
British actress [[Jennie Lee]] ()[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Lee_(British_actress)]doing her impression of "Jo" from Dickens's ''[[Bleak House]]'' in the melodrama ''[[Jo]]'' (by John Pringle Burnett);
 
 
 
Madame [[Ancarina Massimimi]] and her Italian Opera Company in a season that included ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' (Donizetti), ''[[La Favorita]]'' (Donizetti), ''[[Cavalleria Rusticana]]'' (Rossini), ''[[Barber of Seville]]'',  ''[[Carmen]]'' (Bizet), ''[[Rigoletto]]'' (Verdi), ''[[Gioconda]]'' (Verdi), and ''[[Ernani]]''(Verdi).
 
 
 
The British tenor Sims Reeves in concert.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
[[D.C. Boonzaier]]. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 400, 401, 404.
 
 
 
Go to the  [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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