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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.
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.
New artistic director Dane Lam will this month conduct his first show with State Opera – and it’s a rom-com he likens to a combination of The White Lotus and Love Island. Lam also shares with InReview his longer-term vision for the SA company.
In a rare bringing together of top-class theatrical and musical talent, State Opera South Australia and State Theatre Company South Australia’s Candide is an absolute scorcher.
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.
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.
