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Revision as of 18:38, 3 April 2024
Five:20 Operas Made in SA is a showcase of five South African operas created for the South African College of Music (SACM)’s centenary in 2010 and presented by Cape Town Opera at the Baxter Theatre (21–27 November 2010).
The operas are:
- Out of Time (Péter Louis van Dijk)
- Saartjie (Hendrik Hofmeyer and Fiona Herbst)
- Tronkvoël (Martin Watt and Alwyn Roux)
- Words from a Broken String (Peter Klatzow and Michael Williams)
- Hani (Bongani Ndodana-Breen and Mfundi Vundla)
For more information on each opera, click on each title.
Out of Time
Composed by Péter Louis van Dijk and directed by Geoffrey Hyland, is a brief journey by ‘Black Taxi’ through prejudice, miscommunication, greed and xenophobia.
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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
"Five: 20 - Operas made in South Africa". University of Cape Town. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/cca/projects-archive-and-curatorship-arc-visual-university/five-20-operas-made-south-africa
'Gauteng Opera'. National Arts Council website. https://www.nac.org.za/artisan-post/gauteng-opera/
Return to
Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays
Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays
Return to PLAYS III: Collections
Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances
Return to South African Festivals and Competitions
