Mandela Trilogy returns to Cardiff, Southampton and London

15 August 2016, 06:00 | Updated: 15 December 2016, 11:50

Cape Town Opera’s celebration of Nelson Mandela returns to the UK, presented by Wales Millennium Centre.

The amazing life of Nelson Mandela was first brought to the stage by Cape Town Opera in 2010 with its European premiere at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff in 2012.

Now, Mandela Trilogy returns to the UK, performed by a company of over 60 South African performers.

Mandela Trilogy employs a unique fusion of traditional Xhosa songs, jazz tunes and modern music in honour of one of the world’s most inspiring statesmen. 

The work consists of three acts – an encounter with traditional rural music, a jazz musical and an opera – representing the diversity of expression in contemporary South Africa. Composers, Peter Louis van Dijk, Mike Campbell and librettist, Michael Williams, collaborated to musically identify and complement different phases of Mandela’s life, providing three singers with an opportunity to portray the complex aspects of his personality. 

Mandela Trilogy dates:

24–27 August: Wales Millennium Centre

31 August - 3 September: Southbank Centre, London

7–10 September: The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

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