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The opera has no plot or narrative, but offers sketches, suggests thoughts and, perhaps could be best described as an impressionist opera.

Daniel Jaber is set to be a great asset to the Leigh Warren Dancers and is establishing himself solidly as an innovative and informed choreographer.

Grease, that longest running Broadway show, is here in Adelaide, and Adelaide is loving it.

The State Opera of South Australia are no strangers to ambitious projects and this production is another world first for the company.

This performance has Michael Baldwin and John Edge, as Spooner and Hirst, and the two are simply marvellous together,

Take the family, take friends, but whatever you do, go and see this winning production.

At the end of each day of the Festival the Space Theatre, set out in cabaret style, became a nightclub for various styles of guitar music. Saturday was the turn of jazz.

Each year the Elder Conservatorium mounts a Schubertiade, with cake, coffee and, most welcome in the depths of winter, mulled wine.

Siobhan Stagg and Geoffrey Morris are an excellent pairing, both of them energetic, and lively.

Three esteemed guitarists from different genres, Australia's favourite and sensational string quartet, and a superb young ensemble, all on the same bill.

Two big names came together in one concert as Briullianty Brazilian guitarist, Yamandu Costa, shared the bill with the great Spanish classical guitarist, Maestro Pepe Romero.

Andrey Lebedev is one of the new faces at this year's Festival, and the Sydney Guitar Trio, brought a very different type of concert.

My Festival began with French classical guitarist, Judicael Perroy, and Argentinean Tango composer, Maximo Pujol and his trio.

The only adequate description for this production is that it is a masterpiece.

Annie Siegmann is emerging as an innovative and pioneering force on the Adelaide cabaret scene, and it will be no surprise if we soon lose her to London or New York.

Carla Anita Mattiazzo recalls her trip to the USA to study and to act as a nanny for a wealthy family, but it is not what you might expect.

Argentinean composer and bandoneonista, Ástor Pantaleon Piazzolla, took the Tango and turned it on its head, creating what is known as nuevo tango.

The rapport between the two Callaway sisters, as expected being siblings, added so much to this performance,

What we get from the King's Singers is some sensational six part a cappella male voice harmony, and completely revised versions of the familiar songs

Johanna Allen makes another very welcome trip home to Adelaide to present the marvellous music of Harold Arlen, and her many fans were out in force to see her latest cabaret show,