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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
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In The Spotlight
MGT The Adelaide Festival Centre's trans:mission program presents Three virtuoso greats of modern guitar on their "From A Dream" album tour - Wolfgang Muthspiel (Austria) Slava Grigoryan (Australia) Ralph Towner (USA) Playing World, Jazz, Fusion, Folk and Modern Classical Music. 20 August 2008 Her Majesty's Theatre. To WIN a double pass to see these guitar greats simply email the answer to the following question: Where did Ralph Towner last perform in Adelaide?
Aled Jones Welsh-born Aled Jones has led us on a astounding musical journey, from roaming through the heritage of Welsh choral singing to a highly-successful career as a magnificent, velvet-voiced baritone.[more]
Drum Tao Seen by over 2.5 million people worldwide, Japan's most celebrated and elite company of martial art drummers, Drum-Tao, are coming to Adelaide with their awe-inspiring and innovative production. [more]
Blue/Orange From the screen writer of the feature film Enduring Love comes something like a theatrical cross between a medical examination and a boxing match. Blue/Orange is tough, funny and utterly absorbing.[more]
Les Yeux Noirs This Paris-based octet plays their own variety and melding of Gypsy and Yiddish music, with a nod to Manouche (or French Gypsy) jazz. Theirs is a sound that ignores the divisions of political maps, sneaks past border patrols and extends the hand of fraternity right across Central and Eastern Europe. [more]
Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine is about escape. It takes the form of a monologue by a 42-year-old Liverpool mother and housewife, Mrs Joe Bradshaw, before and after a transforming holiday to Greece.[more]
OzAsia Festival now on sale! To be sent a copy of the 2008 OzAsia Festival brochure email us. Festival highlights include: free family event the *Moon Lantern Festival, the Australian exclusive performance of Shaolin in Wind, Once Upon a Midnight* - a new rock musical and *Two Chefs & 100 Cultures* - an evening with Cheong Liew and Simon Bryant. Plus the *OzAsia Symposium* featuring The Hon *Kevin Rudd* MP, Prime Minister of Australia delivering the keynote address. Go to ozasiafestival.com.au for full program details.
This Month @ BASS
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA Antony & Cleopatra is one of the great tragic stories of the clash between private passions and public lives.
ASO & LISA GASTEEN Australian soprano, Lisa Gasteen, has conquered many of the world's leading opera houses in the most demanding soprano roles in the repertoire and is one of a select band of singers whose voices blaze triumphantly through the huge orchestral forces summoned by Wagner and Richard Strauss.
ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE "She comes down one night and tells her mum and dad she wants to be a terrorist."
AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 2008 Concert 5 - Intense features works from Bargiel, Ravel, bach and Bartok
AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET 2008 SEASON Journey with the Australian String Quartet through Haydn's exuberant Fifths Quartet, the string quartet of renowned Australian composer Miriam Hyde, and Beethoven's extraordinary opus 131.
BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL Beethoven's music is timeless and arguably some of the best and most passionate music ever written.
BEETLE GRADUATION For four decades a beautiful and self-centred woman has dominated the life of the 'plain and timid' daughter whom she named Beetle. Now, faced with death, the mother predicts Beetle's 'graduation' into life.
BOOM BAH! When a small mouse creates the sound of a simple TING, a bustling band gathers and grows. An explosion of rhythmic language and music on stage, especially for babies and toddlers.
CO LAB DANCE COMPANY CABARET DINNER Don't miss out on a night of entertainment! Featuring 3 dance performances; including cabaret, contemporary and hip hop.
CROWS 2008 - OUTER The Adelaide Crows take on Geelong on July 4 and Carlton on August 2.
DAVID STRASSMAN - TED E'S FAREWELL TOUR David Strassman has big news on his 2008 Australian tour - it's "Ted E's Farewell Tour".
DRY ROT A retired Indian Army Colonel, his wife and daughter buy a pub near a racecourse. A likable but crazy gang of bookies are their first customers.
GRAINGER QUARTET 2008 The Darkness and Light features works by Haydn, David Harris and Schubert
IMPULSE Featuring the innovative string ensemble Zephyr Quartet and award-winning contemporary dance company Leigh Warren & Dancers, Impulse draws its inspiration from the creative force that music lends to the dancer
LENNY HENRY - WHERE YOU FROM? Fresh from a sell-out UK season, multi-talented comedian Lenny Henry returns to Australia in July for a national tour with his new show, Where You From?
LOVE IS CRUEL A Benefit Concert for Geoff Goodfellow.
MUSICA VIVA 2008 - PEKKA KUUSISTO & SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS This devilishly talented duo explores major works by Schubert, Sibelius and Corigliano, which will be used as starting points for further exploration.
PARIS Paris - written by John English. Rock opera based on Greek myth about parise Helen of Troy.
PORT ADELAIDE 2008 - OUTER Port Adelaide take on the Kangaroos on July 12, Adelaide on July 20 and Fremantle on July 27.
RECITALS AUSTRALIA 2008 Concert 3 - ANNA GOLDSWORTHY.
ROCK YA SOX OFF ROCK YA SOX OFF - Australia's biggest Tribute Show!
SOMETHING ON SATURDAY 2008 The Adelaide Festival Centre's Weekend programme for kids continues throughout June and beyond.
SYNTONY 2008 - STABAT MATER Pergolesi's famous account of Mary kneeling at the Cross is a tour de force for soprano and countertenor, bridging the gap between the choral and operatic repertoire.
TASSO BOUYESSIS & ANNAMARIA BENI IN CONCERT Adelaide's favourite Singing Duo presenting a programme of Opera, Music Theatre and more.
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Mark Twain's classic story of an outcast boy's journey down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave - a passionate plea for tolerance, equality and freedom.
THE WEDDING SINGER This is the stage version of the Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore hit movie.
TURANDOT - STATE OPERA SEASON 2008 Graeme Murphy's celebrated production returns to Adelaide in a glittering panoply of operatic proportions, full of colour and movement and studded with wry observations that bring all the archetypal characters to life.
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE TOURS Now you can step onto the very stage where the who's who of the entertainment world have performed nearly every night since 1973.