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Dream team: Guillaume Diop, from Paris, and Monike Cristina (partnering him), will dance in Joburg Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty this weekend. Photos: Lauge Sorensen and James Bort
ARTICLE

French ballet star Guillaume Diop joins Joburg Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty

We speak to the star dancer who is in town to play the lead in the classic fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty

  • Charles Leonard
7 min read
Notable: The Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra
BONGANI TEMBE

Orchestra unites the country with music

Bongani Tembe’s Mzansi Philharmonic crosses genres and art forms to reach people

  • Vus'umuzi Phakathi
10 min read
The delightfully amoral playboy Don Giovanni is loved by women on an unprecedented scale and is attended by his manservant, Leporello. Photo: Supplied
DON GIOVANNI

‘Don Giovanni’ and Netflix are uncanny bedmates

Mozart’s opera about an 18th century playboy bears a strange resemblance to the Tinder Swindler

  • The Opera Virgin
5 min read
BEVERLEY CHIAT

A dramatic voice

SA’s own dramatic tenor comes home for performances in Johannesburg and Cape Town, writes Dillon Davie

  • Dillon Davie
4 min read