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Erica Eloff is a beautiful Soprano, here is a short Bio of this elegant singer

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Erica Eloff is a South African soprano specializing in opera, lieder and oratorio, currently residing in England. She made her professional debut in the UK during the summer of 2008 at Garsington Opera as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

Over the last few years, soprano Erica Eloff has steadily built her career on the concert platform to become a sought after soloist and recitalist.

Praised in the media for her vocal authority and technical control, and a voice that is bright and well-produced across its range with great power at the top, she is a passionate and deeply musical performer.

Erica’s wide-ranging repertoire includes all of the major choral compositions including several lesser known works. As an active chamber musician and passionate performer of Lieder and contemporary music, Erica has presented world premiers of works by American, Argentinian, English and South African composers, including works specifically wr
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You may not know Steven De Groote, but he was the best pianist, here is a short Bio of him

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Steven De Groote (1953–1989) was a South African classical pianist. Steven De Groote was born in Johannesburg, South Africa into a Belgian family in which, for three generations, almost every member had been a professional musician.

His grandmother was a recipient of the Prix de Rome in Belgium, and his father the conductor of the Cape Town University Symphony. As a youngster, De Groote toured South Africa performing trios with his father on violin and brother on cello.

He trained with Lamar Crowson in Cape Town, and with Eduardo del Pueyo at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, graduating in 1971 with first prize in piano.

In 1972, De Groote entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Rudolf Serkin, Mieczysław Horszowski, and Seymour Lipkin. He graduated in 1975.

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‘N brokkie inligting oor Chris Coetzer een van die Drie Tenore

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Chris Coetzer is sinoniem met Suid-Afrika se Drie Tenore. Coetzer sing reeds van kindsbeen af as solis.

Hy is bekend vir sy geestelike sang sowel as “Golden Oldies” wat mense se hartsnare roer. Hy het ook al op televisieprogramme soos Noot vir Noot, Pasella en Binnelanders verskyn.

Coetzer het reeds vele albums die lig laat sien. In Junie is sy CD, Tydloos 2, in die Staatsteater in Pretoria bekend gestel en met ope arms ontvang.

Coetzer se Kerssang-DVD-en-CD-kombinasie beeld ons Verlosser Jesus Christus se geboorte as ’n waardering van die Skepping uit, en van liefde en lewe wat gratis aan ons gegee is.

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‘N kort Bio oor Mimi Coertse:- die dame met die gou Operastem

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Maria Sophia Coertse is op 12 Junie 1932 in Durban, Natal gebore. Sy matrikuleer aan die Hoër Meisieskool Helpmekaar in Johannesburg. In 1949 begin sy haar stemopleiding in Suid-Afrika. In Julie 1953 trou sy met die uitsaaier en komponis, Dawid Engela.

Sy verruil Suid-Afrika in September 1953 vir Londen, reis later na Den Haag en uiteindelik na Wene. Sy begin haar opleiding met Maria Hittorff en Josef Witt in Januarie 1954.

Coertse maak haar debuut in Januarie 1955 as die Eerste Blommemeisie in Richard Wagner se Parsifal by die Teatro San Carlo-teater in Napoli, Karl Böhm het begelei. Sy sing ook in Basle by die Teatro San Carlo. Op 17 Maart 1956 maak sy haar debuut by die Weense Staatsopera as die Koningin van die Nag in Die Towerfluit deur Mozart en bly aan by die Weense Staatsopera tot 1978. Haar Covent Garden-debuut was in 1956, in dieselfde rol. Sy het dié rol uiteindelik meer as 500 keer in vier tale (Duits, Engels, Frans en Italiaans) uitgev
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‘N groot stem in Opera is verlore maar nie vergete nie:- Johan Botha (tenoor)

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Hy maak sy debuut in 1989 op die verhoog van die munisipale teater in Roodepoort as Max in Der Freischütz. Sy internasionale deurbraak kom in 1993 by die Opera de la Bastille as Pinkerton in Puccini se Madama Butterfly.

Sedertdien het hy opgetree by toonaangewende operahuise oor die wêreld soos die Metropolitan Opera, Weense Staatsopera, Opera Australia, Royal Opera House (Londen), La Scala, en die Salzburg Festival. Hy is op 8 September 2016 na ‘n stryd teen kanker oorlede.

Johan Botha is die Suid-Afrikaanse operasanger wat by verreweg die meeste Internasionale opnames gemaak het:

Albert: Tiefland onder Bertrand de Billy (2006) Oehms OC 312
Dvorak: Stabat Mater (2001)
Charles Koechlin: The Jungle Book (1994)
The Puccini Experience (1995)
Mahler Simfonie 8 onnder Boulez en De Billy
Puccini: Turandot onder Gergiev (DVD)
Richard Strauss: Daphne onder Bychkov
Richard Strauss: Elekt
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Corlea en Jannie Moolman tree op te KIEVITS KROON

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In ‘n herderhuis en buitegeboue op ‘n landgoed van 16 hektaar. Die landgoed is onlangs as ‘die Wynlande in Gauteng’ erken weens sy argitektuur in die Kaapse Hollandse styl.

Datum:- 14 Julie 2018

Tyd:- 16:-00

Toegang:- Optrede begin om 19h00, Kaas en Wyn vanaf 16h00, Pryse – geen onder 14, Kaas en Wyn en die Skou: R380, Optrede slegs: R130

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Die landgoed is onlangs genomineer as een van Afrika se voorste vergaderings en konferensiehotelle, luukse toevlug van die
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Stellenbosch: Mozart “Magic Marriage Madness”

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Mozart se skatkis van komposisies is van die mees geliefde musiek ter wereld en in hierdie produksie word die bekendste arias uit `Magic Flute`, `Marriage of Figaro` en `Cosi fan tutte` gehoor.

THREE of UCT`s Opera School`s most talented young stars perform a mosaic of OPERA scenes from Mozart.

Date:- 2nd March 2018

Time:- From 20:15 until 22:00
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