Otello
The 2015/16 Live in HD season from The Metropolitan Opera in New York returned to South African screens in October. The second opera in the season is a new production of Verdi’s Otello.
It releases at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor cinemas on Saturday, November 14 for a limited season. Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, this is a new staging by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher of the Verdi masterpiece based on Shakespeare’s tragic drama of jealousy and deceit. Continue reading
The Pietermaritzburg Amateur Music Society (PAMS) Choir and members of the Pietermaritzburg City Orchestra will be performing Handel’s Messiah in the NG Kerk on the corner of Beverley and Morcom Roads, Prestbury (opposite the Botanic Gardens) at 2.30 pm on Sunday, November 15. Continue reading
VIOLINIST, Joanna Frankel (pictured), and pianist, Christopher Duigan, will play music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Gershwin and Alberto Ginastera on Friday, November 13 at 7.30 pm at the St Michaels and All Angels Church in Himeville.
Frankel is a Juilliard graduate and Concert Master of the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra and Pietrmaritzburg-based Duigan is a concert pianist who has performed with the KZN Philharmonic and at festivals and venues across South Africa.
Tickets for the concert are R100, which includes refreshments. To book call Rosanne at 033 702 1013 or 082 359 6736 (mornings only) . The evening is supported by Moorcroft Manor and Wedgewood Nougat.
Ubuntu – The Opera
Durban’s Playhouse Opera Theatre will be the scene of a major landmark on the South African arts calendar with the world premiere season of Ubuntu – The Opera by Juan Burgers.
Funded by the National Lotteries Commission, the new work is presented by Bravo Africa Entertainment in collaboration with Esayidi FET College. With Raphael Vilakazi as its executive producer, the production will have five performances in the Playhouse Opera Theatre between November 17 and 22. Continue reading
Il Trovatore
CINEMA Nouveau presents the new 2015/16 Metropolitan Opera Season, including six new productions. The much-anticipated 2015/16 Live in HD season from the Metropolitan Opera in New York returns to South Africa, and will be screened exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor theatres. Continue reading
Christopher Duigan. Photo: Val Adamson
Gauteng audiences will have a unique opportunity to enjoy a concert with four of South Africa’s most acclaimed voices at the University of Johannesburg’s Arts Centre on Sunday, October 25. Continue reading
From left: R Ving Chan, Christopher Cockburn, Jacomien de Klerk, Fostier Nzuzi, Jenny McCaul, Dominique Ingala.
The Durban Chamber Choir will perform a programme featuring a programme featuring Benjamin Britten at the Lutheran Church, Hayfields, at 3 pm on Sunday, October 25. Continue reading
Wits Choir wowed audiences in Namibia and the Eastern Cape last month. Now it’s Jozi’s turn to hear them at the Wits Choir Gala Concert on October 24. Continue reading
Daniel Raskin
The final concert in the KZN Philharmonic’s 2015 World Symphony Series Spring Season takes place in the Durban City Hall at 7.30 pm on October 22. Continue reading
Lavrova and Primakov
The internationally acclaimed Russian piano duo, Lavrova and Primakov, are set to dazzle at the Nederburg Concert Series on Sunday, October 25. Continue reading
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