Nkoli: The Vogue Opera
"Nkoli: The Vogue Opera – the making of a musical about a queer liberation activist in South Africa”
Premiere of Nkoli, the Vogue Opera:
The Market Theatre, Johannesburg 2023
17th to 19th of November
Daily Maverick
A life resurrected — an opera about Aids and the life of queer activist Simon Nkoli
‘If Hamilton and RuPaul’s Drag Race had a baby in South Africa’ — icon Simon Nkoli gets the glamour treatment
Rueters
South Africa’s ‘Vogue Opera’ Honours Life Of Gay Anti-Apartheid Activist Nkoli
THE CONVERSATION
Nkoli: The Vogue Opera – the making of a musical about a queer liberation activist in South Africa
REUBEN T. CALUZA – THE B-SIDE
WEEKEND SPECIAL
A unique recording of songs by South African composer Reuben T. Caluza (pictured left) has been released to coincide with Heritage month. The album, titled Reuben T. Caluza – The B-Side features dynamic new interpretations and arrangements of songs by the Caluza (1895–1969), who was once a household name in South Africa and also hugely popular in the US and the UK during the 1920s and ’30s.
The Nollywood Reporter
Multi-Disciplinary Performance Marks Heritage Day in South Africa
SATURDAY STAR
Music Legend Reuben Caluza Celebrated This Heritage Month
Sheer Publishing
Reuben Caluza Takes Over Heritage Weekend
DAILY MAVERICK
So, you’ve never heard of Reuben T. Caluza? That needs to change
SABC NEWS
Pause. Fervour. Reflections on a Pandemic – Journal of Visual Culture/HaFI reader
I am so proud that the video and music of Influenza 1918 based on the song by Reuben T Caluza was selected for the digital public conversation for the Journal of Visual Culture for the Harun-Farocki Institute.
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Call for support: Philip Miller MusoRelief SA campaign
Triggering Sonic Memory: Philip Miller in conversation with Mary Corrigall
Triggering Sonic Memory: Philip Miller in conversation with Jenny Kagan
DISINTER & RECONFIGURE: A CONVERSATION WITH COMPOSER PHILIP MILLER
Elements of Paper Music by William Kentridge
Paper Music: A Ciné Concert Philip Miller and William Kentridge Carnegie Hall, New York City, October 27, 2014
Two works from the concert, “Emergency” and “Trio for Four Hands,” are on view at New York’s Marian Goodman Gallery through November 26, 2014
In “Emergency,” singers Ann Masina and Joanna Dudley mourn, “Whilst hoping and hoping and hoping… against hope—the world’s changed—the world’s stayed as it was—the word’s changed—the word’s stayed as it was. Unhappen.”
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