Arts & Culture
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.
News
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.
Get InDaily in your inbox. Daily. The best local news sent straight to your inbox every workday at lunchtime.
Thanks for signing up to the InDaily newsletter.
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”.
Artistic director Stuart Maunder wraps up his debut season at State Opera with this gorgeous production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly: an opera whose rich beauty is as dissonant as ever with the appalling reality behind this troubling tale.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta The Mikado is the most recognisable and most performed of their works. Delivered with fine singing and clever stage presentation, this Adelaide production of the 1885 show is vibrant and charming.
Adelaide bass Pelham Andrews will switch between two contrasting roles this month when State Opera SA presents topsy-turvy satire The Mikado and epic romantic tragedy Madama Butterfly concurrently at the Festival Theatre.
What happens when your plane vanishes without a trace? That’s the enigma explored in ‘lost opera’ Madeline Lee.
