South African College of Music

South African College of Music (SACM) was established in 1910 by William Henry Bell who became the first principal. Bell was later succeeded by Erik Chisholm.

The SACM was incorporated into the University of Cape Town in 1923.

SACM offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree and diploma programmes specialising in African and World Music, Jazz Studies, Composition, Classical Music, Opera, Music Technology and Musicology.

Productions

From 1929, the South African College of Music regularly presented operas, doing so under its own banner and, from 1951, as the University of Cape Town Opera Company.

Productions included:

1929: Il barbiere di Siviglia

1933: Il matrimonio segreto

1934: Hatsuyuki

1935: The Wandering Scholar, The Pillow of Kantan

Sources

https://humanities.uct.ac.za/college-music

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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