Times Of Swaziland: SD OPERA SINGERS FOR  INTERNATIONAL MOZART FESTIVAL

SD OPERA SINGERS FOR  INTERNATIONAL MOZART FESTIVAL
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 BY NONDUMISO MSIBI  on 21/04/2017 09:07:00


MBABANE - It is so far proving to be a good year for the local entertainment
scene as Swazis are coming for everything they said they couldn’t have.
The opera music scene in the country has grabbed an opportunity of a lifetime to
be part of this year’s Johannesburg International Mozart Festival as two of
the pioneers of this industry; Thando Zwane and Prosper Makhanya have been
selected to be part of the five finalists out of thousands of South African
hopefuls in the 2017 Festival.
They will also take part in master classes that will be facilitated by one of
the World’s opera giants known to be the German tenor who goes by the name of
Professor Josef Protschka.
This year, the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival will be presenting one
week of amazing concerts and cultural events all under the motto “That’s All
Folk(s)!” This will take place between June and July on dates to be announced.
The Festival takes place on an annual basis – at a time when the regular
subscription series of the South African classical music scene come to a halt
for their summer break and audiences will particularly enjoy the more informal
character of festival music-making.
The Johannesburg International Mozart Festival provides a unique combination of
classical performances on the highest international level with a keenly
intelligent and creative approach to programming and an enterprising portfolio
of all-encompassing education and outreach projects for children, students and
audiences of all corners of society.
Both the Festival’s logo and its website domain www.join-mozart-festival.org
(“join” being an abbreviation of “Johannesburg International”) reflect
the festival’s ambition and desire to invite people of all backgrounds and
ages to join in and be united in the enjoyment and celebration of music and the
two Swazis have gotten lucky to have won the competition.
About the Mozart  Festival
Mozart’s firm hold on the public’s fascination can be traced back to the
archetypal notion of the child prodigy, triumphing over a potentially fatal brew
of precociousness and a tyrannical father figure, to become one of the greatest
composers in music history.
The development of Mozart’s genius was articulated through a whirlwind of
achievements which pushed every musical genre and every musical instrument
Mozart wrote in and for to its very limits and beyond.