Saartjie

Saartjie is a short opera composed by Hendrik Hofmeyer and Fiona Herbst.

Original text

The opera imagines Saartjie Baartman in Paris on New Year’s Eve, 1815.

Original 20-minute work expanded into a full opera, under the title Sara Baartman.

Productions

2010: Presented at the Baxter Theatre (November), directed by Geoffrey Hyland, as part of Five:20 Operas Made in SA

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.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/

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