Cape Town Opera

REVIEW Frankfurter Neue Presse14.09.2019Bettina Boyens Classical : The HR Symphony Orchestra started its season in the Alte Oper Frankfurt with an American programme. The HR Symphony Orchestra started the new season energetically with a colourful, upbeat music programme by American composers under Andrés Orozco-Estrada, in his sixth season as Principal…

Cape Town Opera chorus members and CTO Chorus Master Marvin Kernelle arrived in Germany today where the company will perform Grace Notes in the Hohe Domkirche in Trier, Germany, on 26 September 2019 at 21:00 as part of the Mosel Musikfestival; in the Katolische Pfarrkirche St. Sebastian in Nettetal-Lobberich on…

Cape Town Opera cherishes its relationship with its patrons and is grateful to those who support the company to keep opera flourishing in South Africa. Two such patrons are Gerda and Helmut Jung who have, once more, arranged fundraising concerts in Germany for CTO’s Young Artist Programme. The CTO Young…

The dust had not yet settled for the extraordinary Cape Town Opera Chorus after their much lauded performance in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. The day after the final curtain, the singers boarded a flight to Germany to participate in two prestigious concerts with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-sinfonieorchester) on…

Director Matthew Wild. Conductor Tim Murray. Choreographer Louisa Talbot. Cast: Fleur Barron, Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi, Brittany Smith and Members of the Cape Town Opera Chorus, with the Cape Town Pops Orchestra. At The Baxter Theatre, until September 7, 2019. BEVERLEY BROMMERT reviews For all its celebration of human love, its floral…

Cape Town Opera’s upcoming production, Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, is not the first operatic collaboration between choreographer Louisa Talbot and director Matthew Wild, but it is the first where the scale of dance and movement are on a par with the vocal and orchestral parts. Their award-winning collaboration in the…

Peter Tromp for Next 48hours PT: Tell us a little about yourself and your musical background.TM: I am Associate Music Director of Cape Town Opera and have been working with this tremendous company regularly since 2012, here in Cape Town and on our international tours. I first came to South…

Few myths have resonated with composers through the ages as powerfully as that of Orpheus and Eurydice, and according to Cape Town Opera’s Matthew Wild, who directs the company’s upcoming production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, this is due to its amalgam of timeless themes, namely the metaphysical power of…