Adelaide Festival
Miraculous in its originality, The Nightingale and Other Fables wins both the heart and mind in the exquisiteness of its storytelling.
Music
Setting The Marriage of Figaro in the Houses of Parliament might sound anathema to lovers of this opera, but the comedy it brings is thoroughly up-to-date and worthy of a TV sitcom. This State Opera SA production is brilliant.
Stuart Maunder’s production of Macbeth for State Opera South Australia promises to be a fearsomely truthful account of Verdi’s dramatic masterpiece, performed with some of Australia’s finest singers on a set reminiscent of Game of Thrones.
New data shows women are hugely under-represented in conductor and director roles within Australia’s five major opera companies, with risk aversion in programming exacerbating gender inequality.
An orchestra pit transformed into a lake and puppeteers who double as acrobats are among the inventive elements of director Robert Lepage’s The Nightingale and Other Fables – announced as the centrepiece of the 2024 Adelaide Festival.
Get set for yet more silliness. Superbly staged and funny as a Blackadder episode, HMS Pinafore is a show that you won’t want to miss.
