CAPE TOWN’S CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER TO SING THE PRAISES OF DURBAN’S LEGENDARY EVANGELIST PASTOR FRED L ROBERTS AT THE DURBAN ICC ON THURSDAY 26TH APRIL (7PM) & MASS CELEBRATION AT JESUS DOME DURBAN CHRISTIAN CENTRE MAYVILLE SUNDAY 29TH APRIL 2012 (6PM)
By Marlan Padayachee and Ron Steele
LEADING Cape Town opera singer Cecil John Peters will serenade his best-known trademark rendition of Luciana Pavarotti’s World Cup soccer signature tune, Messun Dorma (None Shall Sleep Tonight), at the grand 80th birthday celebration of Durban’s legendary evangelist Pastor Fred Roberts at the Durban International Convention Centre on the eve of South Africa’s Freedom Day on Thursday night (26TH April 2012).
“I am looking forward to singing the praises of a charismatic churchman with my trademark song, Pavarotti’s Messun Dorma (None Shall Sleep Tonight), which he sang at the 1992 World Cup soccer opening ceremony in Italy,” said Peters, one-time winner of the Roodepoort Award at the international eisteddfod.
Cape Flats-born Peters composed the theme song, ‘I Know a Nation’ for Cape Town’s unsuccessful bid for the 2004 Olympic Games. He also auditioned for Lloyd Webber-Rice’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’.
The celebrations for Pastor Roberts, founder of the Durban Christian Centre at the old Alhambra Theatre in Berea’s Umbilo Road in 1979, gets underway at an invitation-only black-tie banquet of musical and video tributes at the Durban ICC on Thursday evening, culminating with mass celebration to be attended by 5 000 congregants and dignitaries, including several international clergy and evangelists, at the Jesus Dome in Mayville on Sunday from 6pm.
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