Opera UCT awarded prestigious honour of the World Premiere Staging of Donizetti’s rediscovered opera ‘Dalinda’ Opera UCT, the University of Cape Town (UCT) Opera School’s performance company, will present fully staged performances of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘lost’ opera, ‘Dalinda’ at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, 4 – 8 September 2024. This is the first time in history that this opera will be performed in full.  ‘Dalinda’, an opera thought to be lost to history, was rediscovered in 2019 and meticulously reconstructed. At first thought to be yet another version of Donizetti’s famous opera, ‘Lucrezia Borgia,’ (he often copied his own work),...