Review: Platée (Pinchgut Opera)
Kanen Breen dazzles in a riotous production of Rameau’s comedy directed by Neil Armfield.
Kanen Breen dazzles in a riotous production of Rameau’s comedy directed by Neil Armfield.
When Rameau wrote Platée he was taking a bold step outside of traditional French opera by treating comedy as seriously as tragedy. Erin Helyard explains.
The 2022 Adelaide Festival program from Joint Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy features 71 events including nine world premieres and six Australian premieres.
Barrie Kosky returns to the Adelaide Festival with his third operatic production, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel.
An antipodean dream finally comes home.
This Australian premiere rightly challenges us to the point of discomfort, raising more questions than it answers.
Ahead of his Australian debut as Oberon at the Adelaide Festival, the Brooklyn-born countertenor talks to Limelight about faith, politics, and how a raffle ticket changed his life.
Sexual freedom and the subconscious in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The company celebrates 20 years with impressively bold offerings and major players.
"It's been a journey," says Co-Artistic Director Rachel Healy as the Adelaide Festival announces a program featuring 10 world premieres, 14 Australian premieres, and 18 events exclusive to the festival.
Adelaide Festival Co-Artistic Directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield have been honoured with the Arts Leadership Award.
Neil Armfield’s staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will headline.
While live performance is returning, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean virtually no international artists will tour here. Will we seize the chance to create a greater space for Indigenous, female and ethnically diverse voices to speak to us about Australia today?