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Music
Amid Australia’s devastating Black Summer bushfires, composer Paul Dean conceived an evocative new concerto that will have its world premiere this month in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Tragedy to Triumph concert.
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Festivals
Music melds with history, technology and sculpture as a 1981 Sigma is turned into a musical instrument in a performance that brings the sounds – and images – of industry back to the old Mitsubishi factory floor at Tonsley.
Blending music, art and technology, the world’s biggest virtual band took over the Entertainment Centre for a sold-out one-night-only live performance, proving Gorillaz and Illuminate Adelaide to be a perfect match.
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra managing director Vincent Ciccarello has announced he will step down after almost 10 years in the role, saying the time is right for someone new to “bring fresh ideas and energy to the organisation”.
State Opera South Australia artistic director Stuart Maunder will leave the company next year to take up a new role with Victorian Opera.
The audience was treated to a fun night of story and song in this concert featuring multi Golden Guitar winner Fanny Lumsden and South Australian ‘blues-folk-alt country vagabond’ Jimmybay.
“The Adelaide Guitar Festival offered an exhilarating double bill with this night of Spanish music featuring the solo guitar of José María Gallardo Del Rey and the music and dancing of the Arte Kanela ensemble.
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Music
Outdated notions were convincingly refuted in this ‘epic’ concert of three significant works by women composers presented as part of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s She Speaks festival.
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Music
These two venerable Australian musicians have played together for years – but never quite like this.
Composer Cathy Milliken’s vision of Ediacaran fauna was brought vividly to life by the ASO in this concert, which also featured a divine performance by violinist Emily Sun and the orchestral showpiece Pictures at an Exhibition.
Six diverse and compelling singers, music that goes deep into their identities… this brilliant concept translated into a fun and moving show that should be repeated.
An ensemble cast of multi-disciplinary performers use dance, puppetry, song, circus and a rich array of instruments in this celebration of a life lived without compromise.
Can anyone find something new to say about Mozart? A great Australian pianist has joined with one of our most esteemed actors to find out.
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Cabaret Festival
Two singer-songwriters recreate their EP and a lot more in an intimate and uncluttered cabaret performance.
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Cabaret Festival
This splendid tribute to Stephen Sondheim not only exuberantly showcases the best of his songs, but affectionately recalls his close links with Australian music theatre.
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Cabaret Festival
A trio of popular Adelaide cabaret artists deliver snappy performances and a slice of music history in this celebration of ‘the women who defined rock ’n’ roll’.
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Cabaret Festival
The story of a little-known yet influential and intriguing Australian artist who kept company with the likes of Tennessee Williams, Mick Jagger, Patti Smith and Salvador Dali is being resurrected in a new show by local creative Victoria Falconer.
THE BUSINESS OF ART | After the shock of becoming new venue owners during a pandemic, Simone Avramidis and Chris Iley have fostered a thriving blend of community and artistry at Goodwood Theatre and Studios.
Author Kathy Lette believes her mischievous material is perfectly suited to cabaret, and she’s thrilled the cabaret-opera adaptation of How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints) is being brought back to the stage in Adelaide.
The spotlight was on young pianist Jayson Gillham in a pair of Adelaide Symphony Orchestra concerts that both turned out to be extremely special – sometimes in unexpected ways.
Powerhouse Disney musicals are renowned for magic and finesse, and Frozen thaws even the coldest of hearts.
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Music
Two new pieces of music inspired by an important Ngarrindjeri Dreaming story and created through an ASO project involving high school students in the Riverland are being released as part of the orchestra’s Virtual Concert Hall series during National Reconciliation Week.
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Music
The Sense of an Ending was the theme for artistic director Anna Goldsworthy’s final Coriole Music Festival – and it was her most engrossing Coriole program yet.
Earplugs were an optional extra at the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s latest Symphony Series concert, a highlight of which was Australian composer Joe Chindamo’s thrilling new trombone concerto.
Smash together 10 seasons’ worth of the ’90s hit TV show Friends on stage and you’ll get exactly what you came for: a whole lot of Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey. Could it be any more fun?
When 9 to 5 The Musical hits the stage at the Festival Theatre this October, Eddie Perfect will be playing for boos and hisses rather than rapturous applause.
Of all the art forms, singing has arguably been hit hardest by COVID restrictions. This led to a particular sense of joy in the Adelaide Hills over the past week as some of the state’s best choirs were brought together by UKARIA under the guidance of a former member of the King’s Singers for a world-first ‘A Cappella Academy’.
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Music
Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is one of the most problematic of modern operas due to its subject material. So how does director Stuart Maunder tackle it in his new production for State Opera South Australia?
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Festivals
Derek Smalls – ‘iconic bassist’ for fictional heavy metal group Spinal Tap – will take to the stage with You Am I when they perform their tribute show Majesty of Tap in one of the highlights of the 2022 Adelaide Guitar Festival line-up.
Sabor a Cuba with Lazaro Numa are bringing music straight from the heart of Cuba to regional towns in South Australia.
A choir made up of teenagers living in residential care has found strength in performing a song created from the members’ shared experiences.
From the bleakest depths to the most ecstatic heights… can we cope with a Mahler symphony in the present times?
State Opera sends ghostly shivers up the spine with their perfectly unsettling The Turn of the Screw.
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Music
Don’t tell the cultural reformists for they will surely want to erase it, but there remains a little corner of the concert scene where audiences are still having loads of fine old-fashioned fun.
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Theatre
This extraordinary mix of masterly storytelling and astute use of Bob Dylan songs has given the stage musical new heft and new meaning.
It’s not often you get someone sweeping a path before you as proceed to your seat for an opera performance. There’s an air of regal treatment in that, but Bohème on the Beach was an egalitarian affair, and a lot of fun to boot.
State Opera South Australia has announced it will present a new production of La Traviata at Her Majesty’s Theatre later this year, with artistic director Stuart Maunder promising it will be a visually stunning and unforgettable show.
It’s time to break out the sparkles and sequins and start planning for this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival as artistic director Tina Arena unveils her program.
This UK-based ensemble – a selection of players from the full Chineke! orchestra – has debuted at the Adelaide Festival with an exuberant and delightful program, the centrepiece of which was a specially-commissioned work from one of Australia’s most important musicians and composers.
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Festivals
PHOTO GALLERY: Music lovers were out in force – and dancing with zeal – as WOMADelaide celebrated its 30th anniversary across the long weekend with a stellar line-up of artists that showcased the depth and breadth of Australia’s music talent.
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Adelaide Fringe
There’s no pretence to perfection in Ella at Zardi’s, a truly transportive tribute act that at its heart is what the Fringe is all about. ★★★★
Ahead of WOMADelaide’s return to Botanic Park, associate director Annette Tripodi shares with us eight must-see acts – from a big brass band with attitude, to a Yolŋu surf rock group and a project tapping into the golden era of French pop culture.
Audience members were treated to hit after hit at Icehouse’s Great Southern Land 40th anniversary concert on Adelaide Oval’s Village Green.
An architecturally designed ‘sensory playground’ debuting at WOMADelaide invites both children and adults to take seat and spin a soundtrack.
This rarely-seen Russian satire of power and folly is brought to the Adelaide Festival Theatre stage with humour and brilliant imagination.
