Name: Opera SHORTS – A Festival of Pocket Operas
Start: 2024-04-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Artscape

Organization

Admin

Cape Town Opera

Conductor

Robin Phillips

José Dias

Set designer

Allegra Bernacchioni

Costume designer

Opera SHORTS – A Festival of Pocket Operas

Cape Town

South Africa

Artscape

Opera SHORTS – A Festival of Pocket Operas: La Voix humaine Poulenc (+2 More)

Public

Staged

Opera

The Human Voice

Trial by Media

The Impresario

Matias Vergara Moyano

Approved

Opera SHORTS - A Festival of Pocket Operas
from 11 Apr 2024 18:00

Cape Town Opera presents Shorts: A Festival of Pocket Operas, three captivating and diverse bite-sized operas including the World Premiere of Conrad Asman’s new Trial by Media opera about the media's perceptions and complexities surrounding the Oscar Pistorius trial; Poulenc’s La voix humaine, Poulenc’s a deeply moving one-act opera that tells the story of a woman dealing with her descent into dementia, and in delightful contrast, Mozart’s light comic opera,The Impresario, performed in English and adapted from the original Der Schauspieldirektor.
Featuring Cape Town Opera’s House Soloists, Judith Neilson Young Artists and with a special appearance by guest soloist Janelle Visagie, who won a Fleur du Cap for her role in La voix humaine in 2018. With musical direction by Robin Phillips and José Dias.

Age Restriction:
Trial by Media – PG (Under 10s)
La voix humaine (The Human Voice) - PG
Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) - All ages

Duration:
La voix humaine (45 min)
Trial by Media (60 min)
Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) (60 min)

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Crew