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2017-03-17 11:45:08
Hear the brightest South African opera talent in Pietermaritzburg and Pinetown this weekend! South African diva, Sibongile Mngoma (soprano) and tenor, Sandile Mabaso will be presenting an opera recital at the Pinetown Methodist Church on 18 March at 7pm and at the Tatham Art Gallery on 19 March at 3pm. These shining lights of the national opera scene will be will be performing arias, duets and choruses from the world’s most beautiful operas. Mngoma will be singing arias from Puccini’s La Boheme and Tosca and Mabaso will be singing from Massenet’s Manon and Donizzeti’s L’elisir d’Amour. They will be joined by the Vusisizwe Choral Society, from KwaNdengezi, Pinetown, who will be performing famous opera choruses from Don Pascuale and Cosi fan Tutti. The singers will be accompanied on the piano by brilliant Midlands pianist, Lara Kirsten. In 1993 Sibongile Mngoma started her opera training at the South African College of […]
2016-11-27 19:00:39
[…] Hele, who maintains organs throughout KwaZulu-Natal, says it is ‘magnificent both visually and aurally’, adding: “It is a cathedral organ in a concert hall.” In the course of his work, he has been able to play the organ to enjoy everything is working and in tune. “It’s loud and some of the stops vibrate through the building,” he says. Hele and his wife, Rose, will be among those in audience when David Orr accompanies the Drakensberg Boys Choir School on the organ in Music Revival’s Christmas concert in the city hall at 7pm on Tuesday, November 29. “There is nothing more thrilling than hearing the full organ played by a professional organist with people singing their hearts out. This organ always comes through loud and dominant,” he says. The Drakensberg Boys Choir, pictured in front of the pipe organ in the Pietermaritzburg City Hall. Photo: Jonathan Burton NEED TO […]
2016-11-24 16:47:21
Charlotte Botha with members of the Drakensberg Boys Choir School. Photo: Supplied Estelle Sinkins speaks to CHARLOTTE BOTHA, outgoing conductor of the world-renowned Drakensberg Boys Choir School, and says that, with its emphasis on music excellence and its heavenly setting in the mountains, the school and its pupils have had a special place in her heart since childhood. Botha, who will be conducting the boys when they take to the stage of the Pietermaritzburg City Hall for Music Revival’s Christmas concert on Tuesday, November 29, says the feeling of ‘shaping the music with the movement of your arms is nothing short of magical. It is probably as close as we earth-dwellers will ever come to experiencing flight.’ The concert will be one of the last that she does with the world-renowned choristers. “It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to leave the Drakensberg Boys Choir at the […]
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