Durban Amateur Grand Opera Society

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Durban Amateur Grand Opera Society was an amateur society in Durban.

History

The Durban Amateur Grand Opera Society was established in 1928 by Dan Godfrey (former conductor of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra and musical director of the Durban Orchestra). The society staged Charles Gounod’s Faust and Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore.

Sources

Hilde Roos. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).

Sjoerd Alkema. 2012. "Conductors of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, 1914-1965: a historical perspective". University of Cape Town. Unpublished PhD thesis.

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