November 4, 2020
Back at the Festival Theatre in 2021
BRINGING MUSICALS BACK TO FESTIVAL THEATRE IN 2021 One Night Only After a twelve-month hiatus, musicals return to the Festival Theatre in March 2021 when…
November 1, 2020
Designing the Set for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
There is a significant history to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, both in the memories of an Australian audience, but also in the story and…
October 26, 2020
From a play to Libretto
Our lives begin as opera. Our first memories, the indelible memories of early childhood, are operatic: overblown, deeply resonant, larger than life. Infancy is a…
October 23, 2020
Writing for my Fellow Australians
Opera is a complex metaphor for life — not realistic but in that unrealistic frame essentially more real than real because of its capacity to…
September 2, 2020
Summer of the Seventeenth – The Draft
At my first meeting with Richard Mills, he told me the story of the diva, Montserrat Caballe, amply proportioned, who was asked to sing while…
August 5, 2020
JOSEPH CALLEJA – Now touring in 2021
STATEMENT ON JOSEPH CALLEJA POSTPONEMENT See original COVID-19 statement here. See COVID-19 Statement from 19/03/2020 here.In light of the ongoing global effects of COVID-19 and…
July 31, 2020
Why Summer of the Seventeenth Doll?
Artistic Director of State Opera, Stuart Maunder speaks about why he chose to include Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in State Opera's 2020 season.State Opera…
July 27, 2020
Keeping You Safe in the Theatre
Keeping you safe in the theatre State Opera South Australia is excited to be able to welcome you back to the theatre this November for…
July 10, 2020
The Australian Premiere of Little Women
LITTLE WOMEN - State Opera An opera in two acts Mark Adamo, Composer Mark Adamo, Librettist Little Women is an opera by American composer Mark…
July 9, 2020
Composing Little Women
Little Women, that indispensable chronicle of growing up female in post-Civil War New England, has often materialized on-screen (and stage) as the romance of a…