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    • Editor's Choice A Winter’s Journey

    Musica Viva Australia: A Winter’s Journey

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Allan Clayton, one of the finest tenors on the world stage, returns for a substantial national tour of Winterreise. Lindy Hume’s evocative staging, titled A Winter’s Tale, imagines Schubert’s increasingly disillusioned wanderer trekking through a desolate landscape made up of Fred Williams’ paintings of Australia and brought to life by…
    Editor's Choice Orfeo by Luigi Rossi

    Adelaide Festival: Orfeo by Luigi Rossi

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo is a pivotal work in the history of the Baroque, bridging the gap between Venetian opera with its vocal virtuosity and the spectacle of French ballet. Commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin in 1646 to bring Italian style to the French court, it premiered in Paris in an elaborate…
    Editor's Choice Orfeo by Luigi Rossi

    Adelaide Festival: Orfeo by Luigi Rossi

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo is a pivotal work in the history of the Baroque, bridging the gap between Venetian opera with its vocal virtuosity and the spectacle of French ballet. Commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin in 1646 to bring Italian style to the French court, it premiered in Paris in an elaborate…
    The Devil’s Violin

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: The Devil’s Violin

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    The devil played the violin for Tartini in a dream. The music was charismatic, electrifying, fiendishly difficult and utterly transfixing. Tartini awoke and transcribed the melody, penning the Devil’s Trill sonata. It can only be played by someone astounding. Ilya Gringolts is that player, returning with his dazzling virtuosity and commanding stage presence for…

    • In The Quiet

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: In The Quiet

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony unfolds with yearning, sweeping strings that explore deep currents of longing and memory. Copland’s Quiet Citypaints a quieter scene, where plaintive trumpet and cor anglais solos capture moments of stillness amid the bustling world. Between them, lauded ASO Principal Clarinettist Dean Newcomb premieres a new concerto by…
    In The Quiet

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: In The Quiet

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony unfolds with yearning, sweeping strings that explore deep currents of longing and memory. Copland’s Quiet Citypaints a quieter scene, where plaintive trumpet and cor anglais solos capture moments of stillness amid the bustling world. Between them, lauded ASO Principal Clarinettist Dean Newcomb premieres a new concerto by…

    • Beethoven’s Ghost

    Musica Viva Australia: Beethoven’s Ghost

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    What makes a great piano trio? Is it celebrity? Is it longevity? Or is it serendipity? Three magnificent musicians, brought together at the right time and the right place? Aura Go, Australian pianist, storyteller and FutureMaker, has worked with Finnish/Australian-based cellist Timo-Veikko (Tipi) Valve for many years, performing nationally and…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: 90th Anniversary Gala Dinner

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Join the celebration as we toast 90 spectacular years of the ASO with live performances by ASO musicians, a beautiful meal paired with fine Hentley Farm wines, and the warm company of friends and supporters. On 23 May 1936, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra gave its very first concert at the…
    The Ring

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: The Ring

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth leads the ASO in The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure, weaving Wagner’s vast mythic saga into a powerful, emotionally charged hour. This special concert honours the Orchestra’s pioneering role in bringing Wagner’s Ring Cycle to Australia. The charismatic Australian soprano Helena Dix sets the scene for this…
    The Ring

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: The Ring

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth leads the ASO in The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure, weaving Wagner’s vast mythic saga into a powerful, emotionally charged hour. This special concert honours the Orchestra’s pioneering role in bringing Wagner’s Ring Cycle to Australia. The charismatic Australian soprano Helena Dix sets the scene for this…

    • Nature Untamed

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Nature Untamed

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Britten’s feather-light arrangement of music by Mahler tantalisingly captures the fleeting beauty of nature. And Dvořák’s pastoral and triumphant Symphony No.8 reflects on the delicate balance between nature and humanity. In between, Shostakovich’s razor-sharp Cello Concerto No.1 asks what the balance should be between an individual and society, and we…