The WA Mozart Choir’s performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera, The Mikado, was a roaring success, keeping audiences entertained throughout all four performances.
The performances took place at the Roodepoort Theatre, and spanned over three days, with two evening performances and two matinees, with the last matinee being fully booked.
According to Karin Spottiswoode, a WA Mozart Choir committee member, “Rehearsals started in January, initially just for the choir, while musical director, C-J de Graaff sourced soloists and orchestra candidates and rewrote much of the text of the Mikado story to adapt it to the present Johannesburg.”
The audiences enjoyed the wonderful music that was well performed by the choir, soloists and 29-piece orchestra, the superb acting and choreography. Karin said, “The standing ovations received at the end of every show emphasised the audience’s enjoyment and appreciation.”
The costumes and sets, designed by the 2016 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year award, Jade Bower, also added to the awe. “The costumes and sets were all completed by by three experienced and hard-working seamstresses from the choir, and sets were made by choir members and family,” Karin said.
She added, “After this successful venture, the WA Mozart Choir hopes to repeat the Mikado in other places in South Africa in the near future.”
The next performance of the choir, which will be a totally different performance, will be on 2 September at the Linder Auditorium at 3pm. “The performance will a classical concert consisting of Mozart’s Missa Solemnis in C, Beethoven’s Welten Singen from Christus am Ölberge and Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine.
Tickets will cost R200 per person, R175 for school children and block bookings (20 or more people) will be R150,” Karin concluded.
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