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Violetta in ''[[La Traviata]]'' (1956), Annina in ''[[La Traviata]]'' (2004, [[Cape Town Opera]]).
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Violetta in ''[[La Traviata]]'' (1956, [[EOAN Group]]), Annina in ''[[La Traviata]]'' (2004, [[Cape Town Opera]]).
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==

Revision as of 11:02, 18 July 2025

May Abrahamse (1930-?) is an opera singer.

Biography

Training

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

When she was a member of the EOAN Group's Junior Choir in her early teens, Joseph Manca identified her and two other singers as worthy candidates for inclusion in the Adult Choir. Before long she was given solo parts in choral works performed by the group under Manca's baton. It seemed a natural progression for someone of Abrahamse's talent to go from choral singing to musical comedy to opera, and not surprisingly she found herself in the lead of all the EOAN Group productions from the mid-1950s, starting with A Slave in Araby (1949).

Other productions include:

Violetta in La Traviata (1956, EOAN Group), Annina in La Traviata (2004, Cape Town Opera).

Sources

'Getting on with the show'. IOL. 22 April 2004.

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