InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Local arts organisations secure RISE grants, more seats released for State Opera’s Sweeney Todd, Uni SA awards honorary doctorate to arts icon, ACE Open announces 2021 program, and ASQ celebrates recording release.
Music
A distraction from the main game, or a welcome addition to the opera season? Graham Strahle reviews State Opera’s concert version of the classic musical Carousel.
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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.
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.
