Peter Rorke

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Peter Rorke (19*-) Composer.

He composed the comic opera Die Nuwe Dominee (1956) and, for television, the opera The Reluctant Corpse (1964).

Peter composed the music for a production of Die Jakkalsstreke van Scapino in 1958.

He was a founding member of the Pretoria Opera Group in 1956.

Sources

Lantern, 7(4):375-380. 1958.

Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.

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