Marvin Kernelle News Today

We’ve selected three of the top things to get up to in and around the Mother City.

After recent performances at Artscape, Cape Town Opera will take One in Three, a compilation of powerful opera and play extracts aimed at raising awareness of gender-based violence, to the Stellenbosch Town Hall on Sunday 11 December.

ATM director Michael Jonas and council chair Jean Meiring write that the bad old days when the Afrikaans Language Museum and Monument (ATM) was associated with Afrikaner nationalism are long gone and that the institution has for several decades been on the path of exploring all the richness of Afrikaans, an indigenous language that through a process of creolisation emerged on African soil.

The Cape Town Opera (CTO) and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) will join forces to present an Easter performance of Handel’s “Messiah” at the Toringkerk in Paarl on Saturday 16 April at 16:00.

In early December, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera launched a powerful campaign to highlight the struggles they have faced as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, calling to us, the people, for support, as they released an album, ‘Cwaka. The Silence’.

Complete Information About Grace Notes in South Africa at St. George's Cathedral. SACRED MUSIC FROM AFRICA AND EUROPEFollowing its acclaimed premiere in France in 2016, and sell out Cape Town performances in 2018, were delighted to bring back this unique concert of a cappella sacr...