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Revenge, murder and cannibalism: Adelaide Sweeney Todd has legs

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“principals Ben Mingay and Antoinette Halloran... have earned the right to call these roles their own”
Reviewed at Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, Adelaide on 8 May 2021
Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
State Opera South Australia
Anthony Hunt, Conductor
Stuart Maunder, Director
Roger Kirk, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Philip Lethlean, Lighting Designer
Ben Mingay, Sweeney Todd
Antoinette Halloran, Mrs Lovett
Nicholas Cannon, Anthony Hope
Desiree Frahn, Johanna Baker
Joanna McWaters, Beggar Woman
Mark Oates, Beadle Bamford
Adam Goodburn, Adolfo Pirelli
Mat Verevis, Tobias Ragg
Douglas McNicol, Judge Turpin
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
State Opera South Australia Chorus
Jonathan Dove’s excellent opera Flight touches down in Australia
****1
State Opera South Australia enliven Lucia di Lammermoor
***11
Australian beachside fun in Adelaide Così fan tutte
****1
Stravinsky's Nightingale takes flight to open the Adelaide Festival
***11
Lauren Fagan and Kang Wang excel in Adelaide's new Traviata
****1
Richard Meale’s Voss revived in all its brilliance in Adelaide
****1
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