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Writers Nancy Duigud and Nan Hamilton of the Dedel’Ingoma Music-Theatre Company try to interweave Greek mythology — specifically the death-in-winter, rebirth-in-spring myth of Demeter and Pluto — with an African look and vocabulary owing much, apparently, to Khoisan ritual.
  
 
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Revision as of 17:37, 18 February 2024

Earthdiving or earthdiving is a techno-opera composed by Péter Louis van Dijk with Martin Phipps and Mokale Koapeng.

The original text

Writers Nancy Duigud and Nan Hamilton of the Dedel’Ingoma Music-Theatre Company try to interweave Greek mythology — specifically the death-in-winter, rebirth-in-spring myth of Demeter and Pluto — with an African look and vocabulary owing much, apparently, to Khoisan ritual.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2003: Presented by Cape Town Opera at Spier (7–15 March), directed by Nancy Diuguid.

Sources

Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.

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