● Siemens empowers world premiere of the Opera Namibia project Chief Hijangua in Windhoek
● Opera staged by a multinational team of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa
On September 9, 2022, an ensemble of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa presented at the National Theatre of Namibia the premier performance of Namibia’s very first opera in the country’s capital, Windhoek. Chief Hijangua is a celebration of a bilingual and intercultural exchange on the dramatic history that Namibia and Germany shared during colonial times and is sung in Otjiherero – one of Namibia’s national languages – and German.
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