Crazy good
An energetic journey from breakfast to bum in this wacky educational show.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1787 opera was based on the legendary figure Don Juan, a rake and a seducer of women, but Mozart makes him a real villain. Set at a wedding, in Tuscany, the lead’s character is quickly shown to be charming, controlling and without conscience. Seducing anything in a skirt and finally killing the father of one of his conquests.
Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera returns to the Adelaide stage in September/October in an exciting production for the G&S Society at the Arts Theatre.
Rossini’s comic opera about a barber who is also a matchmaker maintains its popularity through the years and this production, back from touring interstate, is as fresh as any modern piece.
Die Fledermaus is one of the most popular and well-known of the operettas. Filled with recognizable and delightful music, based around a plot of unmitigated silliness, it is a work with which much fun can be had.
Mistaken identity, good-natured deception, and tongue in cheek humour abound when friends decide to test their fiancés’ fidelities.
Making opera more accessible, the State Opera is presenting two double-bills this year: evenings of two, one-act operas.
Adelaide audiences are getting a second serving of his highly acclaimed and very successful 2013 version of Oliver! by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of SA.
Lionel Bart’s Oliver! has probably become one of the most popular musicals to grace a stage since its premiere in the early sixties but director David Lampard proves there is still a new way of presenting it.
This musical, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and several Tony Awards, is being seen for the first time in Adelaide. Do try to see it while you can.
As difficult as birdies and eagles are to find when you really want one when on a golf course, fairies are even more rare, except in this operetta.
If you love Sondheim and Sweeney Todd, and even if you do not, you will not want to miss this outstanding production but, as I keep warning people in vain, book now before the word gets around and the tickets all go.