Joseph Manca

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Joseph Manca. (?-?) Italian-born musician, conductor

Biography

Italian immigrant Joseph Salvatore Manca, the son of a Sicilian barber. He was an amateur musician who was a bookkeeper at the Cape Town municipality.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

From 1943, Manca was conductor of the EOAN Group choir.

As conductor and 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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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