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State Opera is experimenting with staging a classic opera in a modern venue – the former industrial warehouse that is now Plant 4, Bowden – with this presentation of Henry Purcell’s passionate tale of a consuming love affair.
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State Opera SA will shine a spotlight on three ‘lost’ Australian operas in its 2019 season, including two works to be presented in the historic Queen’s Theatre and “a deadly serious choral fantasy” based on a Louis Carroll poem.
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Desiree Frahn shines as the golden priestess in State Opera’s picturesque realisation of Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers, which tells the story of two men who fall in love with the same woman.
State Opera and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra have combined with the music of Giuseppe Verdi to produce a spectacular evening’s entertainment.
Director David Lampard’s State Opera production of the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus is set in Beverly Hills, where the characters are busting to get to a celebrity party thrown by a Hollywood producer.
The rare double bill of Spanish opera La Vida Breve and Puccini’s popular Gianni Schicchi delivers an enriching night’s entertainment that balances tragedy and comedy, sensitivity and irony, writes Greg Elliott.
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