State Opera South Australia has announced it will present a new production of La Traviata at Her Majesty’s Theatre later this year, with artistic director Stuart Maunder promising it will be a visually stunning and unforgettable show.
This rarely-seen Russian satire of power and folly is brought to the Adelaide Festival Theatre stage with humour and brilliant imagination.
Frivolity seems so out of place in these COVID times, but a dose of light-hearted merriment from Rossini is actually the perfect antidote. The 18th-century’s operatic funster, he has a way of surrendering to pure fun that can still work a treat today.
Puccini’s tragic love story La Bohème will be transported from the streets of Paris to the beach at Glenelg with an outdoor performance presented by State Opera in March next year.