Musicians have been making music about global events and complex societal issues for centuries. What do they bring to the ...

Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes Joshua Bell, Nathalie Joachim, Barbara Hannigan and more.

Brett Sheehy’s penultimate Adelaide Festival is an array of powerful performances, from its stunning opera centrepiece to a primeval flamenco.

The Adelaide Festival should return to surplus in 2025, after box office figures fell short last year and the event posted a ...

Kaija Saariaho's Innocence was a complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles for Adelaide Festival.

In the big concerto department, violinist Christian Tetzlaff returns for Brahms (Touhill, 10:30 a.m. April 11, 7:30 p.m.

Violinist Lim Dongmin and pianist Choi Hyunglok explore Janacek, Poulenc, Bartok and Saariaho in duo recital Tuesday evening ...

To say the set design, and the small army of backstage crew who transform it – from swanky restaurants to blood-smeared ...

A large international cast of soloists rises magnificently to the challenge, suspending time for Innocence’s unbroken ...

In a rewarding program of challenging, unfamiliar scores, Thomas Adès and The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus tackle works by ...

Poised to unveil his international opera hit, Innocence, at the Adelaide Festival, director Simon Stone warned the art form would soon die out if it failed to return to its “entertainment roots” and ...

Works by Jan Sibelius, Kaija Saariaho, Charles Ives and Adès himself visited a vast spectrum of choral and orchestral hues that can be heard by the ear. Some of them use those colors to make ...