Adelaide Festival
In Barrie Kosky’s new version, The Threepenny Opera has had a haircut and a makeover but the satire is still in there, along with Kurt Weill’s splendid music.
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 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.
