"The South African people adore operatic sounds. They want to sing and do so with their souls," he said. "Just when everything seems impossible -- as in Fidelio -- there is a dramatic turn, and freedom," he says.
There have been hints that Africans are able to tell their own stories through the medium of opera, says Professor Christine Lucia, a musicologist and head of undergraduate studies at the Witwatersrand University School of the Arts.
The first indigenous opera, Princess Magogo, took to the stage recently. The Zulu production sparked wide interest among many for whom opera is a "Eurocentric" pastime.
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