Adelaide Festival Centre announces its 2019 program
Featuring two musicals, three festivals, a new dance work from Australian Dance Theatre and a Chinese New Year Concert with the ASO.
Jo Litson is the Editor of Limelight Magazine. She took up the position in late 2018 having joined the magazine as Deputy Editor in 2016. During a 35-year career as an arts journalist she has been a contributor to numerous publications including Limelight, The Australian, The Bulletin, and the Qantas magazine. She was the arts writer and theatre reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph for 12 years until 2018, and has written the labels for the Archibald Prize for the Art Gallery of New South Wales for over 20 years.
Featuring two musicals, three festivals, a new dance work from Australian Dance Theatre and a Chinese New Year Concert with the ASO.
Two new Australian operas, an Estonian choir, the eight-hour theatrical tour-de-force Gatz and a host of "Made in WA" productions feature.
Melissa Bubnic has set Ibsen’s classic in a monstrous Gold Coast mansion.
Queensland Ballet is challenging choreographers to take a risk with the art form.
A delightful show that tips its lid to G & S, and features a tour de force performance by Mitchell Butel.
The 50th anniversary program features four Australian choreographers and a 50-strong piece by Gideon Obarzanek.
One of Australia's most passionate and beloved conductors and music educators has passed away.
The line-up includes Kaija Saariaho's oratorio La Passion de Simone, Schaübuhne's Beware of Pity and a divisive play called Daughter that has had women walking out.
A rising star internationally, American soprano Amanda Majeski is about to make her Australian debut in the Beethoven Nine for SSO.
Mezzo-soprano Xenia Puskarz Thomas will use the prize worth $43,000 to study in New York.
James Millar gives us the low-down on the new musical he has written with Peter Rutherford, playing in Melbourne this week.
Two wildly different works, with live music by the Australian String Quartet in one, make for a thrilling ride.
The famous opera house in Milan is also home to a world-renowned ballet company. Jo Litson discovers what’s afoot when the Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company visits Brisbane next month for its first ever Australian tour.