25 May 12 - 26 May 12
This musical was made famous by the…
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This musical was made famous by the film with John Travolta in the role of Edna. The show is set in the 1960s and takes place during the Civil Rights Movement in the town Baltimore. It deals with the struggle to be accepted in a world where only the "lovely" are appreciated. Tracy, the plump teenage…
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08 Jul 12
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Deur die loop van die eeue is baie musiek met die titel ?Ave Maria? gekomponeer. Ook is die gebruik van die woordjie ?Halleluja / Allelui. `n algemene verskynsel in die musiekkonteks. Die ATKV, in samewerking met die US Woordfees se besondere musiekproduksie, Ave Maria / Halleluja is gebaseer op die…
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01 Jul 12
Kelebogile (Pearl) Boikanyo made he…
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Kelebogile (Pearl) Boikanyo made her professional singing debut with the international South African superstar tenor, Johan Botha, in Opera Africa`s Opera Extravaganza in 2007, while still a vocal arts student at the Tshwane University of Technology. In 2008 she dazzled as the High Priestess in Verd…
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06 Jul 12 - 07 Jul 12
Soul of Fire is a genre-bending pro…
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Soul of Fire is a genre-bending production conceived by Zanne Stapelberg and Kathleen Tagg as a vehicle for the magnificence of music from Spain and Latin America with a unique combination of instruments-violin, piano, bass and percussion with voice. The program juxtaposes classical Spanish songs by…
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30 Aug 12 - 02 Sep 12
First time in Theater.
A magical m…
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First time in Theater.
A magical musical consisting of two music concerts, certainly good enough to impress a king!
King Saul is completely removed from being the strong, confident and good looking king he once was. Deserted by God, he decides to consult evil spirits and witches. The only thing …
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04 Jul 12 - 06 Jul 12
Max Bruch was one of the last of th…
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Max Bruch was one of the last of the conservative Romantic composers, preferring to compose in the autumnal and tonal style reminiscent of Brahms rather than following the more radical experimentation of Wagner, Liszt and Strauss. Known primarily as a choral composer during his lifetime, his reputat…
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30 Jun 12
All the music in this programme is …
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All the music in this programme is based on fragments of music or styles that originate deep in our history- mainly from the San culture. The San people roamed this country long before anyone else and are, arguably, the most dispossessed of all the inhabitants of South Africa. Pressed on all sides t…
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05 Jul 12
During his career as the lead singe…
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During his career as the lead singer of The Springbok Nude Girls and subsequently as a solo artist, Arno Carstens has released 10 studio albums and had 20 top ten singles. He has won 5 South African Music Awards and shared the stage with legends of the music world including U2, The Rolling Stones, P…
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30 Jun 12 - 02 Jul 12
The three trios of Op.9 came near t…
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The three trios of Op.9 came near the end of Beethoven`s first period, and are generally considered among his finest early chamber works. They are of a quality that even allows them to stand alongside many of the mature compositions in the genre. As a group they comprise a giant step forward for the…
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01 Jul 12 - 03 Jul 12
Culloden is an extraordinary and in…
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Culloden is an extraordinary and intimate study of the bloody and brutal massacre of the ill-trained Highland conscriptees under Bonnie Prince Charlie by the English on Culloden moor. 5000 were slaughtered on the moor by the English, who only lost 50 troops. The English then went on into the Highlan…
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04 Jul 12
Richard return to South Africa in 1…
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Richard return to South Africa in 1980, he breathed new life into the National Symphony Orchestra, where he was appointed Music Director in 1991. However, it is as a choral trainer and conductor that he is best known. He was organist and director of music at St Mary`s Cathedral for 12 years and was …
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29 Jun 12 - 02 Jul 12
Kelebogile (Pearl) Boikanyo`s rise …
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Kelebogile (Pearl) Boikanyo`s rise in the South African opera world has been nothing short of remarkable. Born in 1987, in Pretoria, Kelebogile attended Hebron Technical and Commercial High School, where she graduated at the age of 16. She gained entry into Tshwane University of Technology in Pretor…
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07 Jul 12 - 08 Jul 12
Anne Tomlinson celebrates with the …
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Anne Tomlinson celebrates with the 2011 / 12 season her 16th anniversary as Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Children`s Chorus, overseeing the educational and artistic development of the Chorus, as well as leading LACC`s renowned Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. Tomlinson is a frequent guest c…
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01 Jul 12 - 03 Jul 12
The show will bring to life the sim…
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The show will bring to life the simple purity of storytelling, voice and emotion. It is music that revels in pairing the old with the new. It is music that speaks across time, place and generations. And it is a wholly original sound that charts the human condition and takes listeners on a journey of…
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02 Jul 12
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A percentage of proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Theatre Benevolent Fund, a registered South Africa charity founded and administered by caring arts professionals to provide a reasonable standard of care and comfort to those performers who find themselves incapacitated and destitute …
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03 Jul 12 - 05 Jul 12
Pierrot Luniare, a song-cycle for s…
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Pierrot Luniare, a song-cycle for soprano and instrumental quintet has long been recognised as a key twentieth-century chamber composition, as important in its revolutionary aims and musical influence as Stravinsky`s The Rite of Spring and Strauss`s Elektra. As a dramatic work that alternates betwee…
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01 Jul 12
The Vespers or All Night Vigil by S…
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The Vespers or All Night Vigil by Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) is a monumental work for unaccompanied choir. It was Rachmaninov`s favourite work and part of it was sung at his funeral. He absorbed the music of the Orthodox liturgy so completely that even when composing his own chants he creates so…
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28 Jun 12 - 29 Jun 12
Rhythms of the Eastern Cape highlig…
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Rhythms of the Eastern Cape highlights the vibrancy of the sub-tribes of the Eastern Cape-amaBhaca, abaThembu, amaKhoisan, abeSuthu and amaMpondo. Drawn from the various districts of the province, the Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture acts as a custodian of preserving and…
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