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Don't miss State Opera's final production for 2009
Wagner's magnificent The Flying Dutchman.
7, 10, 12 & 14 Nov. Book at BASS 131 246

Aida
Giuseppe Verdi

31 July & 3, 5, 7 August

Graeme Murphy's brilliant new production created in 2008 for the Opera Conference comes to Adelaide for the first time with a stellar cast conducted by Graham Abbott.
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The Pearl Fishers
Georges Bizet

11, 14, 16, 18 September

Bizet's beautiful score overflows with dramatic energy and in this visually captivating production reveals many sensuous, alluring images of the lush and mysterious Ceylonese landscape, the ruined temple at sunset, the pearl divers and the enigmatic veiled beauty of Leila. The Pearl Fishers melds passion and exoticism into a spellbinding story.
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Hansel & Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck

6, 9, 11, 13 November

Based on the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Humperdinck's truly enchanting score brilliantly displays the conflicts between adulthood and childhood, hunger and satiety, reality and fantasy, and good and evil.
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Again this year we bring you an evocative mix of repertoire and events including three major operas at the Adelaide Festival Theatre, an exciting Australian premiere in partnership with the Adelaide Festival, two smaller scale contemporary works, further Opera Studio activities and three special concerts at Adelaide Town Hall.Click here for more details.

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Don't miss State Opera's final production for 2009 Wagner's magnificent The Flying Dutchman. 7, 10, 12 & 14 Nov. Book at BASS 131 246

Aida Giuseppe Verdi

The Pearl Fishers Georges Bizet

Hansel & Gretel Engelbert Humperdinck