Adelaide Festival
The Adelaide Festival continues its proud tradition of presenting new operas with Hamlet – a transfixing production that brings an invigorating modernity to Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, writes Greg Elliott.
Music
The rare double bill of Spanish opera La Vida Breve and Puccini’s popular Gianni Schicchi delivers an enriching night’s entertainment that balances tragedy and comedy, sensitivity and irony, writes Greg Elliott.
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Following this year’s sell-out success Saul, the Adelaide Festival has announced that its 2018 program will feature another acclaimed operatic work from the UK’s Glyndebourne Festival: Australian composer Brett Dean’s adaptation of Hamlet.
Japanese virtual pop phenomenon Hatsune Miku will make her Australian debut at this year’s OzAsia Festival in the world’s first opera without humans – a work festival director Joseph Mitchell says pushes the boundaries of the artform.
State Opera SA’s Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci double bill is a night of love, seduction, jealousy, abandonment and abuse, writes reviewer Greg Elliott.
2017 Adelaide Festival centrepiece Saul is a feast for the senses, with sumptuous settings and powerful performances.
Tickets to all four performances of the 2017 Adelaide Festival’s centrepiece show, Barrie Kosky’s acclaimed operatic work Saul, have sold out 13 weeks before the festival opening.
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