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    • Live At Yours: Live At Adelaide

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Hailed by Ruhr Nachrichten as "one of the absolute shooting stars of the international opera scene", superstar sopranista Maayan Licht makes his Australian debut as Live at Yours arrives in Adelaide for the first time. Imagine Farinelli meets Freddie Mercury. Joined by acclaimed keyboardist Neal Peres Da Costa and a…
    Framed in Sound

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Framed in Sound

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Keitaro Harada returns with his infectious on-stage energy. Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition uses the full colour of the orchestra to bring paintings to life – from ornate clocks and grand city gates to ballet costumes and a ghostly castle. Stravinsky’s playful ballet score Jeu de cartes…
    Framed in Sound

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Framed in Sound

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Keitaro Harada returns with his infectious on-stage energy. Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition uses the full colour of the orchestra to bring paintings to life – from ornate clocks and grand city gates to ballet costumes and a ghostly castle. Stravinsky’s playful ballet score Jeu de cartes…

    • Editor's Choice From Winter’s Stillness

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: From Winter’s Stillness

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Promising a soul-stirring evocation of frozen landscapes and Northern light, this concert sees the ACO join forces with vocal ensemble Trio Mediæval and trumpeter Arve Henriksen under Richard Tognetti. Drawing on ancient hymns from Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Estonia, the program also features works by Terry Riley, Alfred Schnittke and Tõnu…
    New Ground

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: New Ground

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    This program opens with Gershwin’s spirited An American in Paris, capturing the excitement and whimsy of the Jazz Age. Renowned classical accordionist James Crabb premieres Holly Harrison’s new concerto, shaped by her lively rhythms and blues-infused style. The concert builds to Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, dancing between delicate winds, suspenseful…
    New Ground

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: New Ground

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    This program opens with Gershwin’s spirited An American in Paris, capturing the excitement and whimsy of the Jazz Age. Renowned classical accordionist James Crabb premieres Holly Harrison’s new concerto, shaped by her lively rhythms and blues-infused style. The concert builds to Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, dancing between delicate winds, suspenseful…
    Editor's Choice Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Musica Viva Australia: Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    American-Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz and pianist John Novacek present a program spanning early Modernism to the present day, including Debussy’s Violin Sonata, Szymanowski’s Mythes and Stravinsky’s Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss. The program also features the Australian premiere of Charlotte Bray’s Mriya, commissioned by Musica Viva Australia and Wigmore Hall. Limelight…
    Editor's Choice Swansong

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Swansong

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Flautist Kim Falconer and harpist Jessica Fotinos feature in Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, written on commission in 1778 during the composer’s fated trip to Paris with his mother, Anna Maria, who died there. The concert begins with Sibelius’s tone poem The Swan of Tuonela, composed in 1893, while Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique rounds…
    Editor's Choice Swansong

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Swansong

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Flautist Kim Falconer and harpist Jessica Fotinos feature in Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, written on commission in 1778 during the composer’s fated trip to Paris with his mother, Anna Maria, who died there. The concert begins with Sibelius’s tone poem The Swan of Tuonela, composed in 1893, while Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique rounds…

    • Doric String Quartet & Lloyd Van’t Hoff

    Musica Viva Australia: Doric String Quartet & Lloyd Van’t Hoff

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Thomas Adès' Alchymia has been hailed as ‘simply one of the best chamber music compositions of our time’ (Guardian). Inspired by the music of Shakespearean England, but with a voice all of its own, this major work for string quartet and basset clarinet was premiered in 2021 and has become…
    Isles of Light

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Isles of Light

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    The British Isles boast a magnificent anthology of music grounded in lush, poetic landscapes and thriving cities. This concert will transport you there. British violin and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power makes his ACO debut directing music from Thomas Tallis’ evocative theme - made famous by Vaughan Williams - to the…
    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…