Browsing by Subject "Italian opera"
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From a comedy of errors to tragedy: the cessation of Italian opera in Cape Town in 1877
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2016)The history of grand Italian opera (opera seria) in South Africa remains largely unwritten. With regard to the pre-Union period, the few scholarly investigations into this topic have revealed that European touring companies ... -
Italian grand opera at the Cape of Good Hope : the 1875 and 1876 Cagli seasons
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2015)The history of Italian grand opera (opera seria) remains a woefully underexplored topic in the cultural historiography of South Africa. The present article is intended to fill one of the many gaps by exploring the first ...