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Pauline Malefane, Associate producer/co-writer/translator,(Mary)
Malefane grew up in Khayelitsha. She sang in local choirs from an early age and was first exposed to the world of opera during a high school outing to Don Giovanni. Pauline enrolled at the University of Cape Town College of Music to study a Performers Diploma in Music.
Malefane joined Dimpho Di Kopane in 2000 where she was selected to perform the lead role in Bizet’s opera U-Carmen. Replacing the current lead with only three weeks to prepare the role, Malefane rose to the occasion and went on to achieve tremendous international acclaim, being described in The Observer, London as “the Carmen by which others should be measured”.

Thandiwe Mesele, Associate producer (Andi)
Mesele was born in 1982 in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. She sang in both Primary and High School and was a member of the local choir, Heavenly Voices. In 1998 and 1999 Mesele studied in the United States and performed in Germany and Austria. Mesele joined DDK in 2003. Her roles with the company include Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, Lizzy Ludgate in Ibali looTsotsi The Beggar’s Opera and Fatty, a cigarette girl, in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha.

Charles Hazlewood, composer
Charles Hazlewood is the dynamic young British conductor already well known as the "face of classical music" (The Daily Telegraph) of the BBC, for whom he has authored and conducted many groundbreaking TV programs. Hazlewood won first prize at the European Broadcasting Union conducting competition in Lisbon in 1995. He regularly conducts the BBC orchestras, and has guest conducted with many of the leading orchestras across the UK. In June 2003, he made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He is curating and conducting a major Mozart festival with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in January 2006. His passion to explore music of all varieties with the widest possible audience has lead him to work with some of the most celebrated contemporary composers; in the past six years he has conducted over fifty world premieres, worked with the rawest new South African vocal talent, and explored artists at the cutting edge of the popular music scene in the UK

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