Fikile Mvinjelwa
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Fikile Mvinjelwa (?-) is an opera singer.
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Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Mvinjelwa has sung major roles in operas such as Fidelio (2004), Rigoletto, Nabucco, Tosca and Faust.
Mvinjelwa is also an advocate of new and local opera and has sung a number of roles in contemporary opera such as:
- Enoch in Roelof Temmingh’s opera Enoch, Prophet of God (1995)
- Sacred Bones (1997)
- Buchuland (1998)
- Love and Green Onions (2001)
- King Dinuzulu in Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu by Mzilikazi Khumalo (2002)
- the story teller in Masque (2005)
- Mpande in Ziyankomo and the Forbidden Fruit (2012)
Sources
Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.
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