Editor's Choice Event Series The Nightingale and Other Fables

State Opera South Australia: The Nightingale and Other Fables

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Canadian director Robert Lepage returns to the Adelaide Festival with a visually sumptuous staging of multiple works by Igor Stravinsky. The composer’s early opera tells the tale of The Emperor and the Nightingale, familiar from Hans Christian Andersen. Lepage complements it with a series of Stravinsky miniatures, including Renard (The…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Nightingale and Other Fables

State Opera South Australia: The Nightingale and Other Fables

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Canadian director Robert Lepage returns to the Adelaide Festival with a visually sumptuous staging of multiple works by Igor Stravinsky. The composer’s early opera tells the tale of The Emperor and the Nightingale, familiar from Hans Christian Andersen. Lepage complements it with a series of Stravinsky miniatures, including Renard (The…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Nightingale and Other Fables

State Opera South Australia: The Nightingale and Other Fables

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Canadian director Robert Lepage returns to the Adelaide Festival with a visually sumptuous staging of multiple works by Igor Stravinsky. The composer’s early opera tells the tale of The Emperor and the Nightingale, familiar from Hans Christian Andersen. Lepage complements it with a series of Stravinsky miniatures, including Renard (The…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Nightingale and Other Fables

State Opera South Australia: The Nightingale and Other Fables

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Canadian director Robert Lepage returns to the Adelaide Festival with a visually sumptuous staging of multiple works by Igor Stravinsky. The composer’s early opera tells the tale of The Emperor and the Nightingale, familiar from Hans Christian Andersen. Lepage complements it with a series of Stravinsky miniatures, including Renard (The…

Adelaide Festival: Compassion & Ngapa William Cooper

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Two extraordinary song cycles return to Adelaide Festival in 2024, now accompanied by the full force of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Songwriter Lior and composer Nigel Westlake’s first song cycle, Compassion, premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2013 and was hailed as an instant classic. It was performed across the…
Event Series Floods of Fire

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Our Voices, Our Dreams

The University of Adelaide North Terrace, SA, Australia
For one afternoon, Floods of Fire will take over the University of Adelaide campus with music, stories and art in a fun-filled free event for young and old. Floods of Fire will populate these spaces with citizens, communities, cultural leaders, artists, scientists, researchers, activists and artivists who will present short…
Event Series Floods of Fire

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Our Citizens’ Orchestra

The University of Adelaide North Terrace, SA, Australia
After the success at the opening of the 2023 Adelaide Festival, the Citizens’ Orchestra is back. Take part in an inclusive, joyous and empowering musical experience by becoming one of the Citizens’ Orchestra or coming to this free performance. Through a series of workshops, participants will collaborate with Music Directors…
Event Series Floods of Fire

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Our Celebration with Electric Fields & the ASO

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Award-winning electronic music duo Electric Fields joins the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring new music created for Floods of Fire. The first half of the concert marks the collaboration between South Australian composers, musicians and the ASO and includes the world premiere of the Floods of Fire Symphony. In the…

Editor's Choice Event Series Solace

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Solace

St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide 27 King William Rd, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
Built around the theme of solace, the program opens with Britten’s Russian Funeral Music from 1936. A timely inclusion, it was originally titled War and Death, an impression for brass orchestra and reveals the pacifist composer’s concerns about European politics. His Lachrymae follows, performed by Principal Viola Justin Julian. The…
Editor's Choice Event Series Solace

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Solace

St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide 27 King William Rd, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
Built around the theme of solace, the program opens with Britten’s Russian Funeral Music from 1936. A timely inclusion, it was originally titled War and Death, an impression for brass orchestra and reveals the pacifist composer’s concerns about European politics. His Lachrymae follows, performed by Principal Viola Justin Julian. The…
Event Series Grandeur

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Grandeur

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks illuminates the night with regal charm. Horns glisten with majesty and double reeds shine as timpani strike a grounding beat. The concert’s Baroque theme will flow through Bach’s sprightly cantata, where a beautiful soprano voice calls for joy. Discover new musical realms with the broad strokes…
Event Series Grandeur

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Grandeur

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks illuminates the night with regal charm. Horns glisten with majesty and double reeds shine as timpani strike a grounding beat. The concert’s Baroque theme will flow through Bach’s sprightly cantata, where a beautiful soprano voice calls for joy. Discover new musical realms with the broad strokes…