Die Endler Konsertreeks is trots daarop om die Suid-Afrikaanse bariton Theo Magongoma en pianis Danie Fourie voor te stel in ‘n uitvoering van Italiaanse Opera-arias.

Theo Magongoma het die BMus Hons-graad in Sang aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad se Musiekkollege leiding van Brad Liebl behaal, en is tans besig met MMus-studies aan die Universiteit van Sellenbosch. As ‘n vorige lid van die Kaapstadse opera-ateljee vir opkomende kustenaars was Theo die wenner van etlike pryse asook twee prestigeryke beurse – een van die Queensland Opera (Australië) en ‘n Bruce Foote-beurs van die Meadows School of the Arts aan die Southern Methodist Universiteit in Dallas (VSA).

Pianis Danie Fourie het die BMus-graad aan dieselfde universiteit behaal, en die UNISA-Voordraerslisensiaat. Na nagraadse studies aan die Conservatoire de Musique in Genève (Switserland), het hy studies in beide die akademiese en praktiese veld van musiek en dans aan die  Universiteit van Pretoria, die Pretoria-Technikon, TRUK-Ballet en die Universiteit van Kaapstad voltooi, waar hy ook lesings oor Westerse Dans-musikologie aangebied het. Hy het met die meeste leidende balletgeselkappe saamgewerk en deelgeneem aan plaaslike somer- en winterskole.

Die program bevat van Verdi se mees veeleisende arias, asook werk van by Leoncavallo en Puccini. Die duo word ook aangevul deur die gaskunstenaar, die sopraan Kimmy Skota, vir bekende duette uit Verdi-operas La Traviata en Il Trovatore. Tenoor Arthur Swan neem ook deel in die trio uit Verdi se Il Trovatore.

Die konsert vind plaas aanlyn vanaf Dinsdag 10 Augustus tot 17 Augustus.

Vir meer inligting skakel  Fiona Grayer by concerts@sun.ac.za of 021 808 2358.

PROGRAM

Ruggero Leoncavallo PAGLIACCI: Prologue: Si Puo?

Giuseppe Verdi UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Act III: Eri Tu

Giacomo Puccini TOSCA: Act I: Tre Sbirri, Una Carrozza

Giuseppe Verdi LA TRAVIATA: Act II: Pure Siccome un Angelo

with Kimmy Skota

Giuseppe Verdi RIGOLETTO: Act II: Cortigiani, Vil Razza Dannata!

Giuseppe Verdi DON CARLO: Act IV: Per me giunto . il di supremo O Carlo, ascolta…la madre t’aspetta

Giuseppe Verdi IL TROVATORE: Act II: Il Balen Del Suo Sorriso

Giuseppe Verdi IL TROVATORE: Act I: Tace La Notte!

with Kimmy Skota and Arthur Swan

BIOS

Born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg and raised in the Eastern Cape, THEO MAGONGOMA is a graduate of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town and a former member of the Cape Town Opera Studio for Emerging Young Artists. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and scholarships, including from Queensland Opera (Australia) and The Bruce Foote Scholarship from The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (USA). He was invited to join Dallas Opera’s first Young Artists Studio and toured the north of Texas with the Wagner society. Theo has a substantial background in performance and maintains an extensive repertoire across many languages in opera, oratorio, operetta and art song/lieder. He has performed as a soloist with the leading orchestras of South Africa and at Art Festivals around the world. He has featured in productions internationally in the USA, UK, Italy, Germany, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, Singapore and Japan. Other collaborations include performing as a leading soloist in William Kentridge’s acclaimed production of “The Magic Flute” and with South African composer Neo Muyanga on “Tsohle” produced by Unyazi Festival at the University of Cape Town; “A Revolting Mass”, produced by Spielart Festival in Munich, Germany as well as “Naham – Songs of Light and Weight”, produced by the Sharjah Arts Foundation in Dubai. Most recently, Theo performed at the Theater im Delphi, Berlin, Germany under the direction of Teatro alla Scala revival director Marcin Łakomicki. Theo featured on the 2020 recording single “Blood, Guns and Revolution” for the South African singer-song writer Msaki in commemoration of the Marikana Massacre; and on Neo Muyanga’s Vinyl Recording “MAKEdbA”, a work commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation in memory of Miriam Makeba. Theo published an article in the 2020 edition of CABO MAGAZINE (the annual journal of ‘The Historical Society of Cape Town’) on black South African opera singers’ contribution to opera in Cape Town. Holding a BMus Honours in Music Performance from the University of Cape Town, majoring in voice, he is currently completing his MMus in Music Performance at Stellenbosch University and writing a thesis exploring the black South African operatic voice in the global setting. Theo is featured in the March 2020 publication of OPERA Magazine, included among ‘the new gold standard’ of South African opera singers on the rise in the world today. He is an icon member of AOTOS (The Association of Teachers of Singing) and an affiliate member of BORN (Black Operatic Research Network).

DANIE FOURIE holds a BMus degree from the University of Cape Town and a Performer’s Licentiate in Music from the University of South Africa. After postgraduate piano studies at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland, he worked in both the practical and academic fields of music and dance at the University of Pretoria, the Technikon Pretoria, PACT Ballet and the University of Cape Town, where he lectured Western Dance Musicology. His professional track record includes performance (recitals, concerti, chamber music) and musical arrangement and musical composition for dance. He has worked with most of the leading ballet companies in South Africa and has participated in local and international summer/winter schools. Other activities have included broadcasting for radio, musical direction and the writing and editing of arts education textbooks and journals. A highlight of his career was initiating and organizing the first international dance conference in South Africa which attracted celebrated dance academics from all over the world. Its success set the bar for academic discourse in dance in Southern Africa.