The Opera Singer opens at Theatre On The Square following rave reviews in Cape Town.
The production features an incredible performance by Fiona Ramsay as The Opera Singer and co-stars the honey voiced Owain Rees-Davies in an elegant but searing production, written and directed by Janna Ramos-Violante.
A journalist meets The Opera Singer in an encounter that compels him to seek an interview. The play examines her quixotic and singular personality to reveal a highly intriguing enigmatic figure living with the creature she has created to cope with a huge talent, profound lack of self-worth and desperate loneliness.
Despite the searing insights into her life the play crackles with wit and the wry philosophy on the human condition. It's a deceptively filmic, theatrically immersive experience into the world of a creative spirit. A life dedicated to a craft, to perfection and to ascension.
The script grapples with the notion of celebrity, commitment and choices that impact the emotional arc of an artist’s life. An examination of a life devoted to an art form, the demands, the sacrifice and the damage.