Company: Cape Town OperaFrom today| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Thursday 13-Jun-13 06:30pm |
 Artscape Opera House, Cape TownTwo:30 - taking place in a secret location |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Thursday 13-Jun-13 06:30pm Two:30 - taking place in a secret location Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with Stockholm’s University College of Opera.This event takes place at a secret location, leaving from Artscape at 18:30. The ticket price includes the cost of transport to and from the venue. Booking opens on 25th March
Two new short operas from South Africa and Sweden premiere in Stockholm, before travelling to Cape Town “All is a procession. The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.”.
In 2010, CTO’s hugely popular Five:20 – Operas Made in South Africa initiative assembled five newly commissioned works by local composers and librettists. Now the project goes international in an exciting North-South collaboration, as CTO teams up with Stockholm’s University College of Opera to present a pair of cutting-edge thirty-minute operas. Swedish composer Carl Unander-Scharin brings his innovative use of technology in performance to a setting of Walt Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric, while Philip Miller creates a haunting exploration of the realities of working underground in a mine in Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Dictionary of a Mining Accident. | ||
| Friday 14-Jun-13 06:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town Two:30 - taking place in a secret location |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Friday 14-Jun-13 06:30pm Two:30 - taking place in a secret location Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with Stockholm’s University College of Opera.This event takes place at a secret location, leaving from Artscape at 18:30. The ticket price includes the cost of transport to and from the venue. Booking opens on 25th March
Two new short operas from South Africa and Sweden premiere in Stockholm, before travelling to Cape Town “All is a procession. The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.”.
In 2010, CTO’s hugely popular Five:20 – Operas Made in South Africa initiative assembled five newly commissioned works by local composers and librettists. Now the project goes international in an exciting North-South collaboration, as CTO teams up with Stockholm’s University College of Opera to present a pair of cutting-edge thirty-minute operas. Swedish composer Carl Unander-Scharin brings his innovative use of technology in performance to a setting of Walt Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric, while Philip Miller creates a haunting exploration of the realities of working underground in a mine in Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Dictionary of a Mining Accident. | ||
| Saturday 15-Jun-13 06:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town Two:30 - taking place in a secret location |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Saturday 15-Jun-13 06:30pm Two:30 - taking place in a secret location Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with Stockholm’s University College of Opera.This event takes place at a secret location, leaving from Artscape at 18:30. The ticket price includes the cost of transport to and from the venue. Booking opens on 25th March
Two new short operas from South Africa and Sweden premiere in Stockholm, before travelling to Cape Town “All is a procession. The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.”.
In 2010, CTO’s hugely popular Five:20 – Operas Made in South Africa initiative assembled five newly commissioned works by local composers and librettists. Now the project goes international in an exciting North-South collaboration, as CTO teams up with Stockholm’s University College of Opera to present a pair of cutting-edge thirty-minute operas. Swedish composer Carl Unander-Scharin brings his innovative use of technology in performance to a setting of Walt Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric, while Philip Miller creates a haunting exploration of the realities of working underground in a mine in Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Dictionary of a Mining Accident. | ||
| Tuesday 20-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town Don Giovanni |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Baxter Theatre Main Rd, Cape Town 7701, South Africa Tuesday 20-Aug-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with the UCT Opera School at the Baxter Theatre.
CTO and the UCT Opera School continue their exploration of Mozart’s mature operas with a theatrically daring take on his thrilling Don Juan adaptation.
“640 Italians. 231 Germans. 100 French and 91 Turks. But in Spain – there are already 1003.”
With 2065 names in his little black book, Don Giovanni can lay fair claim to the title of the world’s greatest seducer. But one night in Seville, literature’s most famous sex addict goes too far – and must face supernatural retribution for his crimes.
Don Giovanni has inspired obsessive admiration ever since it was created – along with Hamlet and the sea, Flaubert believed it was one of “the three finest things God ever made” - and the greatest singers of every generation long to put their stamp on its memorable characters. Yet Mozart had a young cast in mind when he penned the opera – the first Giovanni was 21, and the first Donna Anna 24 – and Don Giovanni springs off the page with a visceral authenticity when performed by energetic twenty-somethings.
Kamal Khan and Matthew Wild return as conductor and director to create a new production of the opera, following their darkly illuminating Cosi fan tutte in 2012, “an entertaining production which unites sublime music with thought-provoking interpretation” (Cape Argus). “The Don propels himself through his last night on earth with manic abandon, compelling love, hate, lust and obsession from all who orbit around him,” says Wild. “No other opera explores sexual and romantic compulsion so arrestingly – themes we will foreground in a show that is young, raw and startling.” | ||
| Wednesday 21-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town Don Giovanni |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Baxter Theatre Main Rd, Cape Town 7701, South Africa Wednesday 21-Aug-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with the UCT Opera School at the Baxter Theatre.
CTO and the UCT Opera School continue their exploration of Mozart’s mature operas with a theatrically daring take on his thrilling Don Juan adaptation.
“640 Italians. 231 Germans. 100 French and 91 Turks. But in Spain – there are already 1003.”
With 2065 names in his little black book, Don Giovanni can lay fair claim to the title of the world’s greatest seducer. But one night in Seville, literature’s most famous sex addict goes too far – and must face supernatural retribution for his crimes.
Don Giovanni has inspired obsessive admiration ever since it was created – along with Hamlet and the sea, Flaubert believed it was one of “the three finest things God ever made” - and the greatest singers of every generation long to put their stamp on its memorable characters. Yet Mozart had a young cast in mind when he penned the opera – the first Giovanni was 21, and the first Donna Anna 24 – and Don Giovanni springs off the page with a visceral authenticity when performed by energetic twenty-somethings.
Kamal Khan and Matthew Wild return as conductor and director to create a new production of the opera, following their darkly illuminating Cosi fan tutte in 2012, “an entertaining production which unites sublime music with thought-provoking interpretation” (Cape Argus). “The Don propels himself through his last night on earth with manic abandon, compelling love, hate, lust and obsession from all who orbit around him,” says Wild. “No other opera explores sexual and romantic compulsion so arrestingly – themes we will foreground in a show that is young, raw and startling.” | ||
| Thursday 22-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town Don Giovanni |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Baxter Theatre Main Rd, Cape Town 7701, South Africa Thursday 22-Aug-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with the UCT Opera School at the Baxter Theatre.
CTO and the UCT Opera School continue their exploration of Mozart’s mature operas with a theatrically daring take on his thrilling Don Juan adaptation.
“640 Italians. 231 Germans. 100 French and 91 Turks. But in Spain – there are already 1003.”
With 2065 names in his little black book, Don Giovanni can lay fair claim to the title of the world’s greatest seducer. But one night in Seville, literature’s most famous sex addict goes too far – and must face supernatural retribution for his crimes.
Don Giovanni has inspired obsessive admiration ever since it was created – along with Hamlet and the sea, Flaubert believed it was one of “the three finest things God ever made” - and the greatest singers of every generation long to put their stamp on its memorable characters. Yet Mozart had a young cast in mind when he penned the opera – the first Giovanni was 21, and the first Donna Anna 24 – and Don Giovanni springs off the page with a visceral authenticity when performed by energetic twenty-somethings.
Kamal Khan and Matthew Wild return as conductor and director to create a new production of the opera, following their darkly illuminating Cosi fan tutte in 2012, “an entertaining production which unites sublime music with thought-provoking interpretation” (Cape Argus). “The Don propels himself through his last night on earth with manic abandon, compelling love, hate, lust and obsession from all who orbit around him,” says Wild. “No other opera explores sexual and romantic compulsion so arrestingly – themes we will foreground in a show that is young, raw and startling.” | ||
| Friday 23-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town Don Giovanni |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Baxter Theatre Main Rd, Cape Town 7701, South Africa Friday 23-Aug-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with the UCT Opera School at the Baxter Theatre.
CTO and the UCT Opera School continue their exploration of Mozart’s mature operas with a theatrically daring take on his thrilling Don Juan adaptation.
“640 Italians. 231 Germans. 100 French and 91 Turks. But in Spain – there are already 1003.”
With 2065 names in his little black book, Don Giovanni can lay fair claim to the title of the world’s greatest seducer. But one night in Seville, literature’s most famous sex addict goes too far – and must face supernatural retribution for his crimes.
Don Giovanni has inspired obsessive admiration ever since it was created – along with Hamlet and the sea, Flaubert believed it was one of “the three finest things God ever made” - and the greatest singers of every generation long to put their stamp on its memorable characters. Yet Mozart had a young cast in mind when he penned the opera – the first Giovanni was 21, and the first Donna Anna 24 – and Don Giovanni springs off the page with a visceral authenticity when performed by energetic twenty-somethings.
Kamal Khan and Matthew Wild return as conductor and director to create a new production of the opera, following their darkly illuminating Cosi fan tutte in 2012, “an entertaining production which unites sublime music with thought-provoking interpretation” (Cape Argus). “The Don propels himself through his last night on earth with manic abandon, compelling love, hate, lust and obsession from all who orbit around him,” says Wild. “No other opera explores sexual and romantic compulsion so arrestingly – themes we will foreground in a show that is young, raw and startling.” | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town Don Giovanni |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Baxter Theatre Main Rd, Cape Town 7701, South Africa Saturday 24-Aug-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with the UCT Opera School at the Baxter Theatre.
CTO and the UCT Opera School continue their exploration of Mozart’s mature operas with a theatrically daring take on his thrilling Don Juan adaptation.
“640 Italians. 231 Germans. 100 French and 91 Turks. But in Spain – there are already 1003.”
With 2065 names in his little black book, Don Giovanni can lay fair claim to the title of the world’s greatest seducer. But one night in Seville, literature’s most famous sex addict goes too far – and must face supernatural retribution for his crimes.
Don Giovanni has inspired obsessive admiration ever since it was created – along with Hamlet and the sea, Flaubert believed it was one of “the three finest things God ever made” - and the greatest singers of every generation long to put their stamp on its memorable characters. Yet Mozart had a young cast in mind when he penned the opera – the first Giovanni was 21, and the first Donna Anna 24 – and Don Giovanni springs off the page with a visceral authenticity when performed by energetic twenty-somethings.
Kamal Khan and Matthew Wild return as conductor and director to create a new production of the opera, following their darkly illuminating Cosi fan tutte in 2012, “an entertaining production which unites sublime music with thought-provoking interpretation” (Cape Argus). “The Don propels himself through his last night on earth with manic abandon, compelling love, hate, lust and obsession from all who orbit around him,” says Wild. “No other opera explores sexual and romantic compulsion so arrestingly – themes we will foreground in a show that is young, raw and startling.” | ||
| Thursday 19-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town Madama Butterfly |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Thursday 19-Sep-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera.
Christine Crouse and Michael Mitchell’s visually stunning staging of Puccini’s most heart-rending opera returns to the Opera House at Artscape.
“And the geisha will sing, as she used to do. And the happy song will end in a sob.”
East and West collide with tragic results in Puccini’s devastating opera about a trusting young Japanese bride and the callous American naval officer who weds and abandons her. Famous highlights including Butterfly’s aria ‘Un bel dì’, the joyous Flower Duet and the haunting Humming Chorus emerge from a score of consistent beauty and power, which goes straight for the emotional jugular and seldom fails to reduce even the hardest hearts to tears.
Christine Crouse’s “visually arresting” production, with Kabuki-inspired designs by Michael Mitchell, was a sell-out sensation at its first run in 2009. | ||
| Saturday 21-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town Madama Butterfly |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Saturday 21-Sep-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera.
Christine Crouse and Michael Mitchell’s visually stunning staging of Puccini’s most heart-rending opera returns to the Opera House at Artscape.
“And the geisha will sing, as she used to do. And the happy song will end in a sob.”
East and West collide with tragic results in Puccini’s devastating opera about a trusting young Japanese bride and the callous American naval officer who weds and abandons her. Famous highlights including Butterfly’s aria ‘Un bel dì’, the joyous Flower Duet and the haunting Humming Chorus emerge from a score of consistent beauty and power, which goes straight for the emotional jugular and seldom fails to reduce even the hardest hearts to tears.
Christine Crouse’s “visually arresting” production, with Kabuki-inspired designs by Michael Mitchell, was a sell-out sensation at its first run in 2009. | ||
| Wednesday 25-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town Madama Butterfly |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Wednesday 25-Sep-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera.
Christine Crouse and Michael Mitchell’s visually stunning staging of Puccini’s most heart-rending opera returns to the Opera House at Artscape.
“And the geisha will sing, as she used to do. And the happy song will end in a sob.”
East and West collide with tragic results in Puccini’s devastating opera about a trusting young Japanese bride and the callous American naval officer who weds and abandons her. Famous highlights including Butterfly’s aria ‘Un bel dì’, the joyous Flower Duet and the haunting Humming Chorus emerge from a score of consistent beauty and power, which goes straight for the emotional jugular and seldom fails to reduce even the hardest hearts to tears.
Christine Crouse’s “visually arresting” production, with Kabuki-inspired designs by Michael Mitchell, was a sell-out sensation at its first run in 2009. | ||
| Friday 27-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town Madama Butterfly |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Friday 27-Sep-13 07:30pm Presented by Cape Town Opera.
Christine Crouse and Michael Mitchell’s visually stunning staging of Puccini’s most heart-rending opera returns to the Opera House at Artscape.
“And the geisha will sing, as she used to do. And the happy song will end in a sob.”
East and West collide with tragic results in Puccini’s devastating opera about a trusting young Japanese bride and the callous American naval officer who weds and abandons her. Famous highlights including Butterfly’s aria ‘Un bel dì’, the joyous Flower Duet and the haunting Humming Chorus emerge from a score of consistent beauty and power, which goes straight for the emotional jugular and seldom fails to reduce even the hardest hearts to tears.
Christine Crouse’s “visually arresting” production, with Kabuki-inspired designs by Michael Mitchell, was a sell-out sensation at its first run in 2009. | ||
| Sunday 29-Sep-13 06:00pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town Madama Butterfly |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Sunday 29-Sep-13 06:00pm Presented by Cape Town Opera.
Christine Crouse and Michael Mitchell’s visually stunning staging of Puccini’s most heart-rending opera returns to the Opera House at Artscape.
“And the geisha will sing, as she used to do. And the happy song will end in a sob.”
East and West collide with tragic results in Puccini’s devastating opera about a trusting young Japanese bride and the callous American naval officer who weds and abandons her. Famous highlights including Butterfly’s aria ‘Un bel dì’, the joyous Flower Duet and the haunting Humming Chorus emerge from a score of consistent beauty and power, which goes straight for the emotional jugular and seldom fails to reduce even the hardest hearts to tears.
Christine Crouse’s “visually arresting” production, with Kabuki-inspired designs by Michael Mitchell, was a sell-out sensation at its first run in 2009. | ||
| Wednesday 20-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town The Barber of Seville |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Wednesday 20-Nov-13 07:30pm | ||
| Thursday 21-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town The Barber of Seville |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Thursday 21-Nov-13 07:30pm The nimblest barber in Seville, Figaro is the go-to man for a close shave. And there will be close shaves a-plenty when Figaro helps the lovestruck Count Almaviva abduct his sweetheart Rosina from her nasty guardian Don Bartolo in this hilarious opera buffa, our hair-raising contribution to the month of ‘Movember’. The Barber of Seville combines knockabout humour with music of great virtuosity and brilliance, from its cheeky overture to showstopping arias including ‘Largo al factotum’ and ‘Una voce poco fa’. Following her warm-hearted and witty stagings of L’elisir d’amore and Die Entführung aus dem Serail for CTO and UCT, Christine Crouse helms a whimsical new production of this sparkling, with Kamal Khan conducting the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. | ||
| Friday 22-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town The Barber of Seville |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Friday 22-Nov-13 07:30pm The nimblest barber in Seville, Figaro is the go-to man for a close shave. And there will be close shaves a-plenty when Figaro helps the lovestruck Count Almaviva abduct his sweetheart Rosina from her nasty guardian Don Bartolo in this hilarious opera buffa, our hair-raising contribution to the month of ‘Movember’. The Barber of Seville combines knockabout humour with music of great virtuosity and brilliance, from its cheeky overture to showstopping arias including ‘Largo al factotum’ and ‘Una voce poco fa’. Following her warm-hearted and witty stagings of L’elisir d’amore and Die Entführung aus dem Serail for CTO and UCT, Christine Crouse helms a whimsical new production of this sparkling, with Kamal Khan conducting the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. | ||
| Saturday 23-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town The Barber of Seville |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Saturday 23-Nov-13 07:30pm The nimblest barber in Seville, Figaro is the go-to man for a close shave. And there will be close shaves a-plenty when Figaro helps the lovestruck Count Almaviva abduct his sweetheart Rosina from her nasty guardian Don Bartolo in this hilarious opera buffa, our hair-raising contribution to the month of ‘Movember’. The Barber of Seville combines knockabout humour with music of great virtuosity and brilliance, from its cheeky overture to showstopping arias including ‘Largo al factotum’ and ‘Una voce poco fa’. Following her warm-hearted and witty stagings of L’elisir d’amore and Die Entführung aus dem Serail for CTO and UCT, Christine Crouse helms a whimsical new production of this sparkling, with Kamal Khan conducting the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. | ||
| Sunday 24-Nov-13 07:30pm |
Artscape Opera House, Cape Town The Barber of Seville |
Cape Town Opera |
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| Artscape Opera House, Cape Town, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001, South Africa Sunday 24-Nov-13 07:30pm The nimblest barber in Seville, Figaro is the go-to man for a close shave. And there will be close shaves a-plenty when Figaro helps the lovestruck Count Almaviva abduct his sweetheart Rosina from her nasty guardian Don Bartolo in this hilarious opera buffa, our hair-raising contribution to the month of ‘Movember’. The Barber of Seville combines knockabout humour with music of great virtuosity and brilliance, from its cheeky overture to showstopping arias including ‘Largo al factotum’ and ‘Una voce poco fa’. Following her warm-hearted and witty stagings of L’elisir d’amore and Die Entführung aus dem Serail for CTO and UCT, Christine Crouse helms a whimsical new production of this sparkling, with Kamal Khan conducting the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. | ||
