Ode to Nonsense!

Well, afters years of planning and 1000′s of hours of preparations the World Premiere season of Ode To Nonsense has come and gone. Thank you to the incredible team of artists and production team members for your incredible contribution to this new work. Thank you also to our partners State Opera of South Australia and Adelaide Festival Centre.

We are so proud of what we all achieved together and we look forward to sharing this celebration of nonsense with audiences further afield…more on that later!

“Ode to Nonsense is curiously but wonderfully elating, conveying a message that nonsense is no bad thing.” 
Graham Strahle, The Australian, 30 April 2013

“…simply not like anything else.” “Slingsby may pop a feather in the cap for the scale and originality of this work.” 
Samela Harris, The Barefoot Review, 26 April 2013

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21 REASONS TO LOVE EDWARD LEAR: #14

Simon Bryant’s Ode To Lear for Slingsby … With Food. In his journals and creative writing, Edward Lear obsessively references food. Slingsby commissioned Simon Bryant, an outstanding South Australian chef passionate about seasonal local produce, to devise a menu inspired by Lear’s nonsense food recipes and references to food. more

21 REASONS TO LOVE EDWARD LEAR: #13

Edward Lear's sense of 'otherness' led him to create some of his most unique and moving characters. Including the celestial, searching Dong with a Luminous Nose. This sad, yet hopeful creature with it's starlike projecting proboscis features as a recurring searching muse in our Opera Ode To Nonsense. more

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The sun loved him and warmed him as he worked in the days, but at night the moon laughed at him as it took his castles out to sea