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[[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 Unpublished PhD thesis. | [[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 Unpublished PhD thesis.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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Revision as of 23:11, 25 February 2024
South African College of Music (SACM) was established in 1910 by William Henry Bell who became the first principal. Bell was later succeeded by Erik Chisholm.
The SACM was incorporated into the University of Cape Town in 1923.
SACM offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree and diploma programmes specialising in African and World Music, Jazz Studies, Composition, Classical Music, Opera, Music Technology and Musicology.
Productions
From 1929, the South African College of Music regularly presented operas, doing so under its own banner and, from 1951, as the University of Cape Town Opera Company.
Productions included:
1929: Il barbiere di Siviglia
1933: Il matrimonio segreto
1934: Hatsuyuki
1935: The Wandering Scholar, The Pillow of Kantan
Sources
https://humanities.uct.ac.za/college-music
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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
“South African College of Music”. University of Cape Town. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/college-music/history
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