State Opera goes Into the Woods for Jubilee program

When it rains it pours, and October was a month of back-to-back 2026 program announcements from across the South Australian arts landscape. But we’d be remiss not to mention State Opera South Australia, who have also unveiled their spread for the company’s 50 th -anniversary year.

That includes the return of former Adelaide Festival artistic director Neil Armfield to helm a production of Gioachino Rossini’s La Cenerentola (known to her friends and stepsisters as Cinderella ). Set to run at Her Majesty’s Theatre from May 7 – 16, it will feature with mezzo soprano Anna Downsley donning the glass slipper alongside Teddy Tahu Rhodes.

Local Sondheim-heads will also be treated to the Tony-winning musical Into the Woods in August, w

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