Adelaide Festival
This staging of Brahms’ German Requiem subverts some of the formal traditions of choral singing, breaking down the barrier between performer and audience, to powerful effect.
Adelaide Festival
Featuring guests including Peter Garrett, Emma Donovan and Briggs alongside the exuberant Marilya Indigenous choir, Spinifex Gum is a breathtaking and uniquely Australian performance, writes reviewer Ali Moylan.
‘Memorial’ is an elegy for the fallen soldiers of The Iliad that, through its potent alchemy of poetry, music and clever use of an enormous chorus, delivers a powerful statement about the human cost of war.
Bold, fresh and original, Robert Lepage’s ‘The Far Side of the Moon’ – an exploration of the complicated coming together of two middle-aged brothers following the death of their mother – is theatre at its finest, writes Jo Vabolis.
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.
Grace Jones’ open-air concert in Elder Park shows she is still a reigning rock goddess: fierce, funny, sexy, outrageous … and completely electrifying.
