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State Opera SA is inviting audiences to a “fright night” with news that it has rescheduled the musical thriller Sweeney Todd for a six-show season at Her Majesty’s Theatre in May next year.
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The Australian opera Voss – based on Patrick White’s novel about a 19th-century outback explorer – will be brought back to the stage 35 years after it premiered at the Adelaide Festival.
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UPDATED: The latest COVID-19 restrictions have created fresh chaos for SA performing arts companies and events, forcing the cancellation or postponement of shows and a delay in the Adelaide Festival’s planned 2021 program launch.
State Opera SA will open its 2021 season with a performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel – hailed as marking the return of musicals to the Festival Theatre after the pandemic forced live performance off-stage for most of this year.
State Opera SA will return to the stage in November with Summer of the Seventeenth Doll at Her Majesty’s Theatre – and it’s added an extra performance to accommodate more audience members in line with current COVID guidelines.
UPDATED: Cirque du Soleil has cancelled upcoming Adelaide performances of its new show KURIOS, State Opera SA has suspended two productions – including outdoor epic Carmina Burana – and many other SA shows and arts organisations are likely to be hit hard by new rules sparked by the coronavirus pandemic.
EXCLUSIVE | The leaders of South Australia’s major performing arts companies have collectively demanded a rewrite of their commercial agreements with the Adelaide Festival Centre, highlighting “significant tensions” arising from its “virtual power of monopoly in relation to quality venues in Adelaide”.
