Article: Pegasus stage Delius' Koanga at Sadler's Wells

Article: Koanga ; Classical
The Independent - London;  April 7, 2007 ;     280 words ...Britain's leading multiracial opera company, Pegasus Opera, presents a rare revival of what is arguably the first ever African- American opera, Frederick Delius's Koanga. Completed in 1897, and so predating both Scott Joplin's Treemonisha ...

Article: Koanga ; Five best concerts
The Independent - London;  April 14, 2007 ;     236 words ...To mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, Pegasus Opera presents the first London production for 35 years of Delius's pioneering plantation opera, starring Leonard Rowe and Alison ...

Article: Delius's Koanga at Trier
Musical Opinion;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... December I attended a revival of Delius's Koanga. A product of the composer's Florida ... tame the African Prince Voodoo priest Koanga into servitude. The story has a predictably tragic end. Koanga's love affair and marriage with Palmyra ...

Dictionary definition: Koanga
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera;      351 words ...Koanga. Opera in a prologue, 3 acts, and epilogue ... Simon Perez (ten) and falls in love with Koanga (bar) a prince of her own tribe. The ... during which Palmyra is abducted by Perez. Koanga quarrels with the planter and flees into ...

Article: KOANGA ; Opera ++ Sadler's Wells LONDON
The Independent - London;  April 19, 2007 ;     561 words ... ... the elements. Hardly ever performed, Koanga's last London outing was in this same ... options, represents an admirable policy. Koanga has neither the bitter edge of Show Boat ... principals - Leonard Rowe as the noble captive Koanga, and Alison Buchanan as his betrothed ...

Article: Koanga seeds
The Press;  September 18, 2004 ;     221 words ...Celebrate, too, the arrival of Northland's Koanga Gardens organic and heritage seeds in a Christchurch retail outlet. Nature's Organics in Opawa has an interesting range of vegetable and flower seeds that previously could only be bought here by mail.

Article: Success stories and new initiatives: really innovative food. ...
NZ Business;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... is considered by world experts to be of the highest quality. Koanga Gardens, an organic heirloom seedling nursery and garden at Maungaturoto, received the Gold Award of $5000. Koanga Gardens' Kay Baxter is on a mission to rediscover and preserve ...