Silas Marner

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Silas Marner is an opera in three acts by John Joubert (1927-2019) with a libretto by Rachel Trickett.

The original text

Based on the novel by George Elliot.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1961: First performance at the Little Theatre, Cape Town, May 1961, by the University of Cape Town Opera School, conducted by Prof. Erik Chisholm.

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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