People of Note - Innocent Masuku

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Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on People of Note this week, is the exciting and award winning young tenor Innocent Masuku. Not only was he a finalist in Britain’s Got Talent, but he is enjoying a hugely successful career with English National Opera. Innocent has just been in Cape Town to sing in Cape Town Opera’s production of the Barber of Seville as Count Almaviva, a role he also sang to great acclaim with English National Opera.

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24 Aug English South Africa TV & Film

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