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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1949: Presented by the [[EOAN Group]] in the [[Cape Town City Hall]].
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1949: Presented by the [[EOAN Group]] in the [[Cape Town City Hall]], featuring a cast of seventy five performers, starring [[May Abrahamse]] in her first principal role. It was staged together with the [[Cape Town Municipal Orchestra]].
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== 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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
 
[[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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
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[[Hilde Roos]]. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. [[Stellenbosch University]].
  
 
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A Slave in Araby is a comic opera in Two Acts by Alfred J. Silver and Stanley Guise

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1949: Presented by the EOAN Group in the Cape Town City Hall, featuring a cast of seventy five performers, starring May Abrahamse in her first principal role. It was staged together with the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra.

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.

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