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A show revolving around a group of people stranded in an airport terminal during a storm and based on a true story that also inspired a Steven Spielberg movie will be brought to the stage by State Opera South Australia in 2025.
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Despite a last-minute change in personnel, Mozart’s Così fan tutte triumphs in every way. With extraordinary things to enjoy in this production presented by State Opera SA, it really couldn’t be better.
Acclaimed director Simon Stone’s opera Innocence – which sees the intertwined stories of a wedding and a school shooting in Helsinki unfold via a multi-level rotating set – is one of the first three shows announced for the 2025 Adelaide Festival.
Twenty years after the epic 2004 Adelaide production of Wagner’s 16-hour, four-opera Ring cycle wowed audiences and critics alike, dramaturg Peter Bassett gives InReview a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how it all came together and explains why the show is a landmark in operatic history that should make South Australians proud.
Miraculous in its originality, The Nightingale and Other Fables wins both the heart and mind in the exquisiteness of its storytelling.
Setting The Marriage of Figaro in the Houses of Parliament might sound anathema to lovers of this opera, but the comedy it brings is thoroughly up-to-date and worthy of a TV sitcom. This State Opera SA production is brilliant.
State Opera South Australia has appointed a new artistic director, in a change that points to greater international collaboration and a push to launch homegrown local talent to the world.
