Gauteng Opera Presents: A Christmas Concert
The Black Tie Ensemble Trust, now trading as Gauteng Opera, invites music and theatre lovers to a thrilling yet heart-warming concert, featuring the much loved traditional carols and sacred songs for the Festive Season.
This annual concert has been established as one of the definitive events in this genre, and has become a tradition especially in Pretoria. Conducted by Eddie Clayton, members of GAUTENG OPERA and the GAUTENG ORCHESTRA will move and enthral patrons with an exciting programme that features popular festive season carols such as Joy to the World, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Battle Hymns of the Republic, The Very Best Time of the Year, Drummer Boy, White Christmas and The Holy City (Jerusalem), to name but a few.
Keeping up to annual tradition, all patrons attending the Christmas Concert are encouraged to bring along an unwrapped gift for children of ages 3 to 18, between the value of R50.00 and R100.00. This year, we celebrate World AIDS Day, and the gifts will be donated to charities that care for orphaned and vulnerable children, mostly infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.
The following organisations will benefit:
Oliver’s House in Benoni, Johannesburg, who supports the Nomthandazo Children’s Care Centre situated in the Zenzele Informal Settlement in Daveyton and cares for 200 disadvantaged children from the ages 6 months to 6 years old. Some of the children are HIV positive, with a further 20% having been orphaned as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Child Welfare Tshwane, providing safe-homes for children in areas such as Attridgeville, Mamelodi and Eersterust, receiving 60-70 intakes per month, of which almost 80% are HIV/ AIDS orphans.
Peas in a Pod in Pretoria, a specialist house of safety caring for sexually abused girls, aged 2-18 years.
GAUTENG OPERA is an all-round performing arts and entertainment company with specialties in opera productions and concerts. Driven by excellence in vocal performance and theatre, Gauteng Opera prides itself in being one of the foremost nurturers of experts and proponents for quality vocal performance and theatre practitioners.
Performance:
Friday 29 November 2013, 20h00
Linder Auditorium, Parktown, Johannesburg
Sunday 01 December 2013, 15h00
AULA Theatre, University of Pretoria
Prices:R100, R110, R130, and R150
Discounts:10% discount for pensioners and scholars
10% discount on block bookings, of 10 or more tickets
Book at Computicket outlets or phone (011) 340 8000 or book online at www.computicket.com
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