Murray Dickie

Murray Dickie (1924-1995)was an opera singer and director, musical director amd artistic director.

Biography

Born in Bishopton, Scotland, on 3 April 1924, he had his first vocal training in Glasgow. He afterwards studied in Vienna with S. Polmann, in London with Dino Borgioli and in Milan with Guido Farinelli.

Om the years 1947–1955 he established himself as a singer, notably at Covent Garden and from 1952 onwards in Vienna.

Among his awards have been the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1975) and an OBE New Year Honours in the same year.

Having relocated to South Africa at the start of the 1980s, he died in Cape Town on 19 June 1995, aged 71.

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

In 1982 he was appointed Artistic Director of CAPAB Opera and among his productions for them were The Mikado and Der Rosenkavalier (1986)

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Dickie

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow[1]. 2003. The career of South African soprano Nellie du Toit, born 1929. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of Stellenbosch.[2]

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