Barrie is back for the 2022 Adelaide Festival with a fairytale Russian opera

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.

Festival review: The Magic Flute

The Adelaide Festival’s centrepiece opera is funny, delightful and, at first glance, baffling: an Enlightenment celebration of the power of music and reason blasted by a rocket filled with fireworks into the contemporary world via the aesthetics of the silent film era.