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A remarkable performance for State Opera of South Australia from Rosario La Spina as Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci was evidence of the brilliant tenor he has become.

Die Fledermaus is full of beautiful music, outrageous situations and lots of comic opportunities. This production captures it all with a contemporary idiom and a Beverly Hills setting.

There are Australian accents and idioms aplenty in this exciting new State Opera of South Australia opera being premiered in Adelaide.

State Opera of South Australia is performing two short pieces, Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne and the even rarer Offenbach’s La chanson de Fortunio, showcasing several developing young artists.

A seamless combination of State Opera of South Australia and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra have created a Verdi Requiem the equal of which it would be hard to find.

This has been a stunning production of Satyagraha, which delivers a rich spiritual, almost transcendental, experience, concluding a remarkable triple performance of Philip Glass’ portrait operas. 

Einstein on the Beach is the second in the Philip Glass Portrait Trilogy given a new exciting production by State Opera of South Australia.

Philip Glass has always hoped his three portrait operas would be performed within the space of a week. Thirty years after he wrote Akhnaten, his dream has become reality.