Diva Does Divorce | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review

According to mezzo soprano Kirsti Harms, many opera tragedies would have been avoided by the casting of a family lawyer.

Diva Does Divorce.

Diva Does Divorce

Cabaret

Rating: ****

Gala Room at The Austral Hotel

March 7, 9, 11

Opera is full of marriages. Opera is not so big on divorce.

However, according to Kirsti Harms, so many tragedies would have been avoided by the casting of a family lawyer.

Harms, a superb mezzo soprano with an international career, turns in a very stylish show, her associate artist David Garwood at the keyboard.

Now she’s a Barossa based family lawyer, she has a fund of anecdotes, carefully stripped of identifying factors around which to string her songs.

The parodies are witty, and if she feels like taking on the Kurt Weill repertoire, I’ll buy tickets, and throw flowers.

Towards the end she takes on Madama Butterfly, one of her most memorable State Opera roles. It’s beautiful.

It was a quickly sold-out series of three shows in the Austral Gala Room, and a fundraiser for a children’s charity. She may do another one; Diva Does Death. Opera is very big on death.