About Us
Umculo / Cape Festival is an international music organisation that supports lasting social change through music in South Africa . Launched in 2010, Umculo / Cape Festival makes an international network of leading music institutions available to South African music education initiatives through showcase events, partnerships, and conferences.
Umculo Cape Festival 2012 presents:Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen
If love's a sweet passion, why does it torment?
Join us for a musical journey into Shakespeare's world of midsummer magic and madness.
23, 24*, 25* March 2012, UJ Theatre, Johannesburg
30, 31* March, 1* April 2012, Joseph Stone Theatre, Cape Town
* = matinee performance
Tickets: Computicket, available from 20 February
Subsidies available for transport and tickets.
Gerben Grooten: Conductor
Robert Lehmeier: Director
Thando Lobese: Costumes
Michael Maxwell: Lighting
Dramaturg: Laura Ellersdorfer
Stage Manager: Tatjana Dachsel
Zandile Gwebityala, Siyabonga Maquango, Melissa Gerber, Brenda Thulo, Charles Ainslie, and others.
The Bloekombos Secondary School Choir (conductor: Siyabulela Sulelo)
Members of the South African National Youth Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Umculo's education team offers free 3-hour interactive preparatory workshops for groups of up to 20 teenagers or adults.
For details please contact Nosipho Singiswa, speicks@gmail.com, tel: 0783 625 203.
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The 2011 Cape Festival is supported by the Hilti Foundation and the Goethe Institut.
