The latest production by the State Opera of South Australia is a magical concoction of song, dance and colour. Written by Hungarian composer Franz Lehar in 1905 The Merry Widow has enjoyed popularity right up to today.
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.
The Adelaide Youth Orchestra combine with some of this state's finest Opera stars to deliver Mozart and Strauss.
These eight songs would have surely made a connection with any mothers or mothers-to-be in the audience. Let’s hope it is not another decade before it gets another performance in Adelaide.