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| State Opera of South Australia | | | A work of stunning theatricality and a huge success for the Adelaide Festival |
| Spectacular, extravagant and wildly absurd are just the tip of the iceberg |
| An outstanding start to the 2010 Adelaide Festival |
| Full-bodied music fleshes out triumphant love story |
| A grimly brilliant body of work |
| Der Fliegende Holländer |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | A triumph on the high seas |
| This new production of Wagners' first great melodrama is festival standard and world class |
| La fanciulla del West |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | The State Opera of South Australia does La faciulla del West proud |
| Les Contes d'Hoffmann |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | It looks superb, is stylish, sexy and funny, and takes itself just a little too seriously |
| Emma Matthews takes centre stage in Adelaide's most enjoyable Hoffmann |
| Rigoletto |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | Great music, a great production and great performances |
| Le nozze di Figaro | |
| State Opera of South Australia | | | The "crazy day" of The Marriage of Figaro is a delightful offering |
| Turandot | |
| State Opera of South Australia | | | A fine feast for both the eyes and the ears |
| Ainadamar | |
| State Opera of South Australia | | | Forceful fusion of complexity |
| Il barbiere di Siviglia | |
| State Opera of South Australia | | | A performance to be enjoyed at different levels |
| Little Women |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | Not for all tastes |
| Satyagraha |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | It is astoundingly beautiful to watch |
| Madama Butterfly |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | Kirsti Harms is mesmerising as Butterfly |
| Der Ring des Nibelungen | |
| State Opera of South Australia | | | Australia mounts its first-ever complete Ring Cycle |
| One of the most visually resplendent Rings of recent times (review at end of article) |
| Australia forges a 'Ring' with confidence |
| BBQs, balloons and paper flowers for Wagner's Ring |
| An Australian Ring for all humanity |
| This has been an important cultural event |
| Götterdämmerung |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | Lisa Gasteen is extraordinary as Brunnhilde |
| The whole cycle has amounted to one of the finest occasions in the history of Australian music, opera and theatre |
| Siegfried |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | Watchers bond as the drama builds |
| The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, under Asher Fisch, excelled its own previous high performance |
| Die Walküre |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | A production of visually brilliant scenes, and more |
| The new Adelaide production of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung gets better and better |
| Das Rheingold |
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| State Opera of South Australia | | | Neidhardt has a gift for simplifying complex themes by sometimes startling visual means |
| An extraordinary triumph that will take its place most honourably in the international annals of Wagnerian production |
| Parsifal |
| | State Opera of South Australia | | | A modern version for a modern audience |
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Australian arts "asphyxiated" | | Lisa Gasteen says the arts are being asphyxiated in Australia and she is not surprised by Adelaide's failure to restage the Ring Cycle. |
Ring Cycle: opera buffs rebuffed | | A former arts minister says the South Australian Government has not pushed hard enough to win funding to again stage Wagner's Ring Cycle in SA. |
Moshinsky's great production for Adelaide | | The State Opera of South Australia will present Verdi's Rigoletto at the Festival Theatre for the first time in 15 years during its 2008 season. |
The perfect pitch | | When a young singer was offered for the lead role in State Opera's new Barber of Seville, director Stephen Phillips had to make only one call to check her credentials. |
Threat to Ring cycle | | The State Opera of South Australia's triumphant production of the Ring cycle is slowly slipping out of sight, threatening the waste of millions of dollars of investment. |
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2 Mar 10 / Opera Britannia
