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Latest ‘Press’ Entries
Yende Shows Why She’s So Feted
There can be few lovers of the vocal arts in Cape Town who are not aware of the spectacular achievements of Pretty Yende, who won first prize at three prestigious international competitions – Vienna’s Belvedere, Barcelona’s Monserrat Caballe and the inaugural Savonlina – over the past two years, writes DEON IRISH.
This recital at the City
Musa’s off to the USA
Bass baritone Musawenkosi Ngqungwana, who audiences will remember as Don Profondo in Rossini’s ‘Il Viaggio a Reims” and the quack Doctor Dulcamara in “L’elisir d’amore”, is set to extend his international experience by spending three years as a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) in Philadelphia from September.
The programme offers him the
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Cape Town Opera, with Show Boat in Paris
Cape Town Opera’s popular production of “Show Boat” has been refloated with rehearsals now beginning this month at Artscape for the touring company’s next port of call – this time to France for 19 performances between October 2 – 19 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
The popularity of Janice Honeyman’s production of the romantic
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African Songbook: A musical tribute to the life of Nelson Mandela – Barry Smith
For many locals and visitors it must have been a more than welcome relief to escape the omnipresent soccer for an evening to attend the first performance of the ‘African Songbook: A musical tribute to the life of Nelson Mandela’ (Artscape Opera House, 17 June). The opera was presented by Cape Town Opera, Artscape and
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Happy Birthday Mandela with Love from Cape Town
Have you written your birthday message to Mandela yet? You have only until June 19 to record your greetings to Madiba on the Wall of Wishes situated in the Opera Bar at Artscape and also in the foyer of Mandela Rhodes Place in the City Centre.
In the lead-up to Nelson Mandela’s 92nd birthday on July
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Duitse dirigent vind opera-heil in Kaap
Kaapstad – Opera se nuwe musiekdirekteur en artistieke raadgewer, die Duitse dirigent Sebastian Lang-Lessing, gesels met wayne muller oor sy planne vir opera in die stad en Der Rosenkavalier.
Selfs vanuit die donker ouditorium van Kunstekaap se operahuis waar ek wag op Sebastian Lang-Lessing om ’n repetisie af te rond, is sy sweetblink gesig daar in
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Local Cast a Testimony to solid state of Opera in SA by Carl Fourie
Christine Crouse’s new production of “Der Rosenkavalier” is lush and sumptuous. It captures the glitz of a bygone era and succeeds in creating a fusion between the reality of decisions and its fairytale ending, writes CARL FOURIE in the Argus Tonight on June 2, 2010.
Crouse has been ably assisted by Michael Mitchell and Faheem Baaardien.
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Jong sangers imponeer in energieke produksie van Rossini-opera
Om Rossini te sing is alles behalwe speletjies: hy gee sangers moordende koloratuurlopies maar verwag ook skone lang frases. Maar die jong sangers in Kaapstad Opera se kleurvolle produksie van “Il Viaggio a Reims” laat dié komponis se moeilik musiek na speletjies klink – op die beste manier denkbaar, skryf WAYNE MULLER in Die Burger
Saam
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The Tragedy of Siphiwo Ntshebe
Tenor Siphiwo Ntshebe, who died of bacterial meningitis on May 26 in Port Elizabeth before fulfilling his dream to sing Hope at the World Cup opening ceremony next month, received his early training as a singer in Cape Town.
He was a student at the College of Music and a member of Cape Town Opera’s Choral
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Passionate woman in love with a younger man
By Fiona Chisholm
Vivacious soprano Andrea Catzel is here from Australia to make her welcome comeback on the Cape stage in the one role she has always wanted to sing again – that of the glamorous Marschallin with the young lover in Richard Strauss’s lavish opera ‘Der Rosenkavalier’. Staged by Cape Town Opera, it opens at
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