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| − | Situated outside Stellenbosch on the banks of the Eerste River. [[Dick Enthoven]], owner of the Spier Wine Estate, had the amphitheatre built in 1993 and it opened in 1996 for its first summer festival. The amphitheatre can seat 3 565 people and the stage is covered and exceedingly well equipped. Each year Spier hosts a summer festival of about 5 months, running from end November to mid April the following year. The season consists of an array of musical entertainments, plays, operas, and so on. Performances have included ''[[Ubu and the Truth Commission]]'' ([[Jane Taylor]] and [[William Kentridge]], 199*), ''[[La Traviata]]'' (2000), **??**, EXPAND Spier- Amfiteater, Stellenbosch, 13/2/03 , [[William Kentridge]], ''[[Confessions of Zeno]]''.
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| − | Operas presented by [[Spier]] have included:
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| − | 1998: ''[[Tosca]]'' and ''[[I Pagliacci]]''
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| − | 2006: ''[[Princess Magogo]]''
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| − | 2007: ''[[macbEth: The Opera]]''
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| − | == Sources ==
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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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
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| − | == For more information ==
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| − | Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]]
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