Cape Town Opera stages The Mandela Trilogy in Wales.
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A new book explores how Cape Town became a hub for African opera.
King Charles III And Queen Camilla on their coronation day.
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Activists view their moral case for the return of the diamonds as unanswerable, but it runs up against many complications.
Pretty Yende performs at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 2019.
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Singing at King Charles III’s coronation tells a story of global histories coming full circle.
Soprano Pretty Yende has been chosen to perform at the coronation of UK monarch King Charles III.
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Performing at the coronation of King Charles III will be just one of many firsts for the activist soprano.
South African soprano Pretty Yende (L) & Mexican tenor Javier Camarena during a rehearsal of ‘I puritani’ in Spain, 2018.
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Realism and addressing pressing contemporary South African societal issues have been the focus of local opera since 1995.