Cape Town Opera

Cape Town Opera

Africa’s premiere opera company, Cape Town Opera (CTO), has thrilled audiences around the globe for the past decade, from its home soils in Southern Africa to countries including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Israel, the United States and Australia.

Acclaimed for the vibrant vocalism and high-octane stage performances of its artists, CTO’s soloists and chorus have won the hearts of critics and audience members wherever they travel.
CTO’s South African base is a key training ground for gifted young African singers, many of whom come from South Africa’s poorest communities. Maintaining an impressively varied repertoire of opera, operetta and musicals at home (from Monteverdi to Janacek and Gershwin to new South African commissions), the company also engages widely with rural communities and young people around South Africa.

Since 2005, CTO has showcased its finest vocal talents in a roster of touring productions which have brought the art of this unique company to the world.
The company’s Soweto-set production of Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess has been seen in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom and Israel; in 2012 a hugely successful six city tour of the UK culminated in a two week run at London’s Coliseum, and a few weeks later the company performed the work in concert with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle at Berlin’s Philharmonie. Kern’s Show Boat has taken the company to Malmö, Nuremberg, Oslo and Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet.

More recently, CTO’s gripping tribute to Nelson Mandela, Mandela Trilogy, played at Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre, and its moving new production of Weill’s Lost in the Stars marked the company’s United States debut at Glimmerglass. Recent concert performances include an appearance at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford and a series of concerts to mark the reopening of Melbourne’s Hamer Hall.

Published 21 January 2013

City/Town:
Cape Town
Postal Address:
P O Box 4107, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
Street Address:
1 – 10 DF Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town
Phone:
+27 (0)21 410 9807
Fax:

+27 (0)21 425 3623

Website:
http://www.capetownopera.co.za

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