National Opera Association

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National Opera Association of South Africa

Origins

Alessandro Rota was instrumental in the launch of the National Opera Association of South Africa.

Its aim was to encourage indigenous opera and ballet and to encourage South African artists to remain in the country. Opera in the Transvaal was dominated by this organisation and the Operavereniging van Suid-Afrika (Opera Society of South Africa) from 1956 until the formation of PACT in 1963.

Merger

The National Opera Association of South Africa merged with the Opera Society of South Africa to become the South African Opera Federation in 1958.

Sources

Percy Tucker, 1997

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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