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Past Production Reviews

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I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini
D: Laurence Dale
C: Jeremy Silver
Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Stefan Louw, one of South Africa’s best tenors, did a magnificent job of the role of Tebaldo …

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Moira de Swardt
Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi

... His phrasing was poetic and the musical line gently spun. The intensity of his communication was illuminating, being sensitive to nuance and an uncanny feeling for phrase continuity.

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Riek van Rensburg
Aida, Verdi
D: Lawrence Dale
C: Vincent de Kort
Radames in Aida

Stéfan Louw’s tenor gleamed in ensembles. His ringing upper register coped magisterially with the music of Radames.

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Riek van Rensburg
Radames in Aida

At Stéfan Louw’s first utterance of Aida’s name, goose bumps chase up my arms … Louw spoils the audience with his rich tenor voice.

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Annette Bayne
La Bohème, Puccini
D: Themi Venturas
C: Timothy Myers
Rodolfo in La Boheme

Stefan Louw limned Rodolfo with a suave, light tenor. His lyric voice blended well with Stapela's shimmering soprano. He was appropriately ardent when called for, by turns meltingly lyrical and at times even vibrantly powerful.

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Paul Boekkooi
Rodolfo in La Boheme

...Stefan Louw really did do a marvellous job of the contradictory Rodolfo.

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Moira de Swardt

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