Mandela Trilogy

Mandela Trilogy

A musical tribute to the life of Nelson Mandela

From prisoner to President and from Nobel Laureate to revered statesman, Nelson Mandela is hailed across the globe as a treasured icon.  The life of this great man who changed the course of South African history is a fascinating and inspiring tale, now told as an on stage cultural showpiece. Mandela Trilogy celebrates the vibrant variety of South African music while dramatising the defining moments that shaped Mandela’s life.

Mandela Trilogy is Cape Town Opera’s musical tribute to the extraordinary life of Nelson Mandela, written by Michael Williams with music by Allan Stephenson, Mike Campbell and Peter Louis van Dijk. 

Mandela Trilogy is a major home-grown work featuring an entirely South African 40-member cast and multiple award winning South African singer and recording artist, Gloria Bosman in a leading role.  Gloria Bosman started her singing career in her local church choir and went on to share the stage with many local stars such as Sibongile Khumalo, Victor Masondo, Hugh Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela. This All Africa KORA Award Winner is very proud to have had the pleasure of singing to former Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki.

With the world’s eyes focused on South Africa in 2010, writer Michael Williams felt the time was right to create a large-scale stage work about the life of Nelson Mandela. Faced with subject matter so complex and significant to our nation, Williams settled on a multifaceted triptych structure, concentrating on three key periods in Madiba’s life, each composed in a different musical style.

Mandela Trilogy opens with an oratorio dramatising formative moments in Mandela’s early years in the Transkei, as composer Allan Stephenson weaves traditional Xhosa songs into a classical framework. Mandela as revolutionary is brought to life in Mike Campbell’s jazzy Sophiatown act, before Peter Louis van Dijk’s final act examines the Robben Island years and the final walk to freedom.

Enthusiastically received in Cape Town in 2010, a revised version of Mandela Trilogy, travels accompanied by the Voice of the Nation Ensemble and the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Albert Horne to Johannesburg, Durban and Bloemfontein, in preparation of the piece’s international tour in 2012.

Date:
14 August 2011
Time:
15:00
City/Town:
Johannesburg
Venue:
Teatro at Montecasino
Ticket Price:
R150-300
Bookings:
http://www.computicket.com - 083 915 8000
Organiser/Presenter:
Cape Town Opera
Phone Number:
+27 (0)21 410 9820
Email Address:
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Website:
http://www.capetownopera.co.za

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