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Perennial favourites The Cat Empire will perform their final-ever South Australian show with their current line-up at next year’s WOMADelaide, with other acts announced today for the 2022 festival including hip-hop outfit AB Original and a number of international musicians.
Music
The exhilarating power and emotional impact of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana was fully harnessed by 270 musicians and 183 choristers in this epic outdoor concert.
Music
If you’ve only ever experienced the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the regal Town Hall, it is a surprise to see just how much a Festival of Orchestra can feel like the festivals of summers gone by.
In his final concert in charge after 36 years, Carl Crossin leaves the Adelaide Chamber Singers in fine voice and good hands.
More than 200 musicians and singers will take to the stage at the ASO’s Festival of Orchestra to perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana – an epic score inspired by bawdy songs of medieval times but best known today for its dramatic chorus.
Paul Kelly, Courtney Barnett and Baker Boy lead the first line-up of 30 artists announced for WOMADelaide’s 30th anniversary festival in Botanic Park in 2022.
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival has revealed a taste of next year’s line-up, including a Variety Gala that will be held in March – ahead of the full winter festival – and an intimate evening of song and storytelling headlined by new artistic director Tina Arena.
“Remarkable music that is rarely played by orchestras was given prominence at this watershed event presented by the ASO. And it has drawn a line in the sand.
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Festivals
WOMADelaide will return to Botanic Park in its seven-stage format in March next year, but organisers says artists, festival-goers, staff and stallholders must all be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
Music
SPONSORED: After a tough year for the music industry, emerging trumpeter Daniel Isler got creative using Helpmann Academy opportunities to raise the profile of his musical projects, Soylent Green and Tervete Collective.
The devastating fires and floods of 2019-20 inspired the theme of a major community engagement project led by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in which composers and musicians from diverse backgrounds have been working together with local organisations to develop a suite of new music.
Pianist Konstantin Shamray holds nothing back in his performance of Rachmaninov’s “concerto for elephants” in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s latest Symphony Series concert.
The co-owners of award-winning North Terrace live music venue Lion Arts Factory and music events company Five Four Entertainment need a combined $500,000 lifeline and property lease extension from the State Government to keep their businesses from collapsing.
Helpmann Award winner Amy Lehpamer – star of shows including School of Rock, Dusty and The Sound of Music – will be in her element performing at the ASO’s outdoor concert A Night on Broadway. Here she reveals her pivotal roles and shares her five favourite Broadway hits.
Music
A good piece of theatre can stop the clock, suspending its audience in an otherworld where they want to stay. The G&S’s production of Evita does just that.
Adelaide Festival
The centrepiece of the 2022 Adelaide Festival will be Barrie Kosky’s new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel, an opera the celebrated director says is weird and wonderful – part fairytale, part psychological drama and part political satire.
Theatre
Paul Capsis revels in the challenge of singlehandedly bringing a multifaceted tale to life in this extraordinary adaptation of a literary classic.
Sponsored
SPONSORED: The Cat Empire’s charismatic trumpet player will be mentoring and performing alongside Adelaide’s up-and-coming jazz stars for the Helpmann Academy’s A Night of Jazz.
The opening night of the Adelaide Guitar Festival showcased the masterful guitar playing of Paco Lara and the equally passionate performances of Adelaide’s own Compañía Alma Flamenca ensemble. It was a delightful combination.
Interstate travel restrictions have forced several late changes to the 2021 Adelaide Guitar Festival line-up but ticket sales are strong as the event opens this weekend with shows including a flamenco spectacular and a classical celebration.
One half of Australian plunderphonic band The Avalanches explains how music can contain snippets of a person’s being, and why harnessing their own music in new ways for Illuminate Adelaide is extending the life of their art.
Last year during lockdown, Creative Original Music Adelaide contracted their roster of artists to create a cohesive work using the exquisite corpse art-making format. The work will finally debut next week.
