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Fifty years after the killing of Dr George Duncan spurred a tragic but galvanising moment for gay rights in South Australia, a musical tribute premiering at Adelaide Festival seeks to memorialise the man – and maintain the rage.
Adelaide Fringe
THE BUSINESS OF ART | From performing as a drummer at age four to preparing to release his first album as a singer-songwriter next year, Nathan May’s musical career has had many variations, but a few key constants have kept it moving forward.
Music
Eric Algra had a front-row seat at some of Adelaide’s biggest rock concerts of the 1970s and ’80s. Now his beautifully gritty photographs are on show in a new exhibition.
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s unusual Christmas offering for this year is a truly splendid new work called Nativity, by Melbourne composer Richard Mills.
South Australia’s privately-run concert hall, in the shadow of Mt Barker Summit, has sympathetically expanded, in a symbol of its growing ambitions and hopes for a return of international performers to its stage.
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s al fresco festival ended with a crowd-pleasing, impeccably-produced screening of some of the world’s greatest nature cinematography, accompanied by an epic live soundtrack.
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.
“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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Music
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s new festival opened last night at the Showground, with a program that included a raft of classical favourites. Our reviewer assesses the outdoor set-up and the ASO’s performance.
Music
In his final concert in charge after 36 years, Carl Crossin leaves the Adelaide Chamber Singers in fine voice and good hands.
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.
A $176,000 report into whether a new acoustic concert hall should be built for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was delivered three months ago – but the State Government says it won’t consider the “appropriateness” of its release before next June.
Six the Musical – the hit show that sees Henry VIII’s six wives transformed from Tudor queens into pop princesses – is coming to Her Majesty’s Theatre in May 2022.
Festivals
Internationally acclaimed musician Belle Chen is a sparkling inclusion in the OzAsia program, presenting a performance admirable for both its virtuosity and innovation.
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
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.
The explosive action of the climactic sixth episode of the original Star Wars saga was brought to life in a mighty performance by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as fans old and new revelled in the experience.
It wasn’t quite what they originally planned, but the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra weaved some magic at the Town Hall last night.
The Dunstan Playhouse’s double bill of the Hussy Hicks band and solo artist Liz Stringer was really a triple given that it also featured players from the Blues and Roots Winter School. Variety and talent abounded in more than two hours of guitar delights.
The Adelaide-based Australian String Quartet has appointed Melbourne Symphony Orchestra associate principal viola Christopher Cartlidge as its new violist to replace long-time member Stephen King.
