Music
Musical theatre star Caroline O’Connor is excited to take to the stage with Candide, an operetta made on a grand scale through a collaboration between State Theatre Company SA, State Opera and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
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Just how accurate is the Oscar-nominated biopic Maestro? Hannah Neophytou of State Opera – which will co-present a production of Bernstein’s operetta Candide in May – compares some of the events in the film to what happened in real life.
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.
Verdi’s version of the dark tale of Macbeth is brought to Adelaide’s opera stage with a dynamic ensemble and some outstanding individual performances.
While State Opera gears up for Macbeth, it somehow found time to put together an intriguing, eclectic Shakespearean-themed concert with music from Finzi and Britten to Shostakovich. UKARIA was the ideal setting.
Stuart Maunder’s production of Macbeth for State Opera South Australia promises to be a fearsomely truthful account of Verdi’s dramatic masterpiece, performed with some of Australia’s finest singers on a set reminiscent of Game of Thrones.
