Five: 20 Operas made in South Africa

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South African composers and writers celebrate the South African College of Music's centenary year with five new 20-minute operas with plots based on Saartjie Baartman, Lucy Lloyd and the Bushmen, xenophobia, the assassination of Chris Hani and Breyten Breytenbach's prison poetry.

Hendrik Hofmeyr – SAARTJIE
Peter Klatzow – WORDS FROM A BROKEN STRING
Péter Louis van Dijk – OUT OF TIME
Bongani Ndodana-Breen – HANI
Martin Watt – TRONKVOËL

Sung in Afrikaans, Xhosa, English and Zulu with English text projected above the stage.

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