Cape Town Opera joins Naspers to celebrate the Mandela Centenary with two concert performances of the widely travelled Mandela Trilogy at the Artscape Opera House. In three acts highlighting Madiba’s youth in Qunu, early adulthood in Sophiatown and incarceration on Robben Island, the work fuses Xhosa traditional, jazz, and contemporary classical music to electrifying effect. Thato Machona, Musanete Sakupwanya and Aubrey Lodewyk star as Mandela, with Philisa Sibeko and Siphamandla Yakupa sharing the role of the late lamented Winnie Mandela. Cecilia Rangwanasha joins the cast as Mandela’s mother, with Fleur du Cap winner Edith Plaatjies making her CTO debut as Dolly.
CTO Associate Music Director Tim Murray returns to lead the CPO through van Dijk and Campbell’s rousing score, which he has conducted to great acclaim in cities including London, Dubai, Ravenna and Hong Kong.
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The Addams Family Musical
Homecoming Centre (formerly The Fugard) (12/14 - 2/2)
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Dear Evan Hansen
Artscape Theatre Centre (2/12 - 3/9) | ||
Shirley Valentine
Avalon Auditoium @ The Homecoming Centre (the old Fugard Theatre) (2/21 - 2/23)
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Dear Evan Hansen
Teatro at Montecasino (3/15 - 4/13) | ||
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