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KNYSNA NEWS - SA Operatunity in collaboration with the Knysna Initiative for Learning and Teaching (Kilt) and CareShareSmile, a German organisation, brought the arts alive during their evening of opera this past weekend at the Dutch Reformed Church hall in Fichat Street, Knysna.
The show was staged to raise funds for Knysna-born and bred opera singer and founder of SA Operatunity, Xolane Marman, who is set to go to Zurich, Switzerland towards the end of the year. It featured internationally renowned singers who magnificently performed works by Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Puccini, Fauré and Schubert.
Anyone who thinks opera isn’t relevant or exclusively for the posh and more mature listener had only to see and hear Knysna’s very own Marman, joined by Charlotte Mhlongo from the University of Cape Town, Germany-based Khanyiso Gwengxane, US-based Luthando Qave and Cape Town's Samantha Riedel on piano to realise that it is anything but that.
Despite the fact that the performance is executed in a range of foreign languages, the singers' powerful, gut-wrenching portrayal of love found and lost constantly cut to the bone.
Wrapping up their evening of opera with these scholars.
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The crowning touch was the enthusiastic applaud when learners from Percy Mdala and Concordia high schools shared a stage with these greats – the result of workshops the opera singers held with the learners beforehand.
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