Part marathon, part tasting plate, part John Cage’s Musicircus, Lyle Chan’s 12-hour festival will see Australia’s most innovative music-makers converge on City Recital Hall.

Box office success and visitor booms have seen the Festival generate a considerable amount of gross expenditure for the state.

Dean's opera has received four nominations, among them best Large Scale Composition.

The Australian composer’s acclaimed opera has won best World Premiere.

With two days to go, the Festival has announced it’s already achieved its biggest box office takings in its history, while the Fringe has also announced a bumper year.

Brett Dean’s intense, immersive new opera makes for a thrilling start to this year’s Adelaide Festival.

From Glyndebourne rehearsal room to triumphant opening night, British tenor Allan Clayton recalls the roller coaster ride involved in bringing Brett Dean’s complicated new Hamlet to life.

Conductors, a singer, a director and a composer all feature in a bumper year for Australian musical talent.

Once again, we asked our readers and critics to vote for the Australian and International Artist of the Year for 2017. Here are the winners!

With his opera Hamlet coming to Adelaide in 2018, the composer-violist-conductor reflects on a year of successes.

Highlights include Brett Dean’s Hamlet, a Shakespeare adaptation akin to House of Cards, and an immersive German Requiem. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Brett Dean and Piers Lane set the concert hall ablaze.