While the name of the season - now online - suggests breaking through opera’s glass ceiling, the violent imagery fits the context of ecological disaster, inequality, mental illness, and dystopia.
- PhD candidate in music, Adelaide University
Four choirs in 12 concerts cover 500 years of musical terrain, connecting the psalms to the contemporary world for the Adelaide Festival.
XXX Neon Sign – a piano work about working in a Brisbane porn shop – is a new work of ‘composed theatre’, where the performer and the performance are inextricably linked.
Unsound Adelaide brought genre-crossing electronic music to the Adelaide Festival for the third year in a row– but this year’s program could’ve been much more adventurous.
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