University of Cape Town Opera School

The Opera Department attached to the University of Cape Town.

Now known as Opera UCT, under the directorship of Jeremy Silver.

Origins

Established in 1954 at the South African College of Music (SACM) at the University of Cape Town to ensure that singers could receive formal vocal and academic training to prepare them for a professional career in opera.

The Italian Gregorio Fiasconaro was the first director.

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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See University of Cape Town

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