"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.

From flygskam to hazardous air quality, the changing climate is increasingly having an impact on classical music and the arts. Angus McPherson considers how artists and organisations are rising to meet these challenges, and asks what role the arts can play in the face of a climate crisis.

It was all go as this year’s 60th anniversary festival got underway with a series of compelling, contentious, provocative and exciting productions.

Premiering in Aix-en-Provence earlier this month, the radical, beautiful staging of Mozart’s final, unfinished work has electrified audiences.

The two will produce and co-commission major opera productions to be seen in Adelaide over the next three years.

The line-up includes the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Moscow's Sretensky Monastery Choir, and Meryl Tankard's Two Feet performed by Natalia Osipova.

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

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

The dancer-choreographer will appear in XENOS in 2018, a fitting bookend to his Australian appearances. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

After a dazzling reception at Glyndebourne, Neil Armfield's production is coming to Adelaide – without a dog as Horatio.

Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy's debut programme has finished with the biggest takings in the Festival's history.