Review: Coriole Music Festival 2025
Coriole celebrates its silver anniversary with two days of musical gold.
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Coriole celebrates its silver anniversary with two days of musical gold.
A fine operatic metaphor for the transience and troubles of modern life, but Flight's rhyming libretto reduces uplift.
SOSA's revival of the venerable John Copley production remains vital and vibrant; Emma Pearson shines in title role.
Perhaps Candide, like its hero, is never destined to find its true form as a work of theatre. But there is still much to enjoy.
Over two days and within three generously filled concerts, audiences were treated to fine performances of diverse music.
State Opera South Australia's Figaro pulsates with life and joie de vivre but lacks a genuinely subversive edge.
Originally scheduled for 2020, Stuart Maunder's production is well worth the wait.
With its warm and reverberant acoustics, Elder Hall proves an entirely sympathetic venue for this airing of disparate works.
Built upon already staunch foundations, Coriole is now one of the best boutique fine music festivals in the country.
Much love and care has gone into the making of this Pirates of Penzance, and all of its facets are delivered with playfulness and vigour.
An Australian composer on music’s power to enrich the sound of silence.
Over the past seven years, the UKARIA-based Chamber Landscapes series has grown to become an integral part of the Adelaide Festival.
Exploring one man and his method through the history of 20th-century Japan.