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The 38th Adelaide Festival will return in 2023 with a stacked lineup of more than 50 events in theatre, music, opera, dance, media and visual arts. This includes major festivals-within-the-festival such as Adelaide Writers’ Week, UKARIA Chamber Landscapes and WOMADelaide.
Spanning over 17 days and nights from Friday 3 to Sunday 19 March, New Zealand superstar, Lorde, will headline the impressive music line-up in her first visit to Adelaide in nine years, with performances from festival regulars, Kronos Quartet and the first-ever show by Spain’s Escolania de Montserrat also topping the bill.
Featuring 11 world premieres, 8 Australian premieres and 17 events presented exclusively in Adelaide, the Southern Hemisphere’s preeminent arts festival will again celebrate diversity, innovation and our city’s world-leading role as the place where global creative forces converge, blend and evolve.
In a transition from six hugely successful Festivals curated by artistic directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield, there is a new, all-women team in the driving seat at Adelaide Festival: internationally respected Artistic Director, Ruth Mackenzie CBE; renowned arts leader Kath M Mainland CBE (Chief Executive); and prominent publishing industry leader, Adelaide Writers’ Week Director Louise Adler AM.
“I see my role as enthusiastic spruiker for the program initiated by Neil and Rachel,” says Ruth Mackenzie. “The international quality of their festivals more than doubled audiences over the past six years and it leaves our new team well placed to continue their legacy.”
“Eighteen countries will be contributing performances, artists and writers to our Festival,” she continues. “It’s particularly gratifying to see return visits by favourite global stars, such as Ivo Van Hove and Crystal Pite – with Australian premieres for their latest triumphs A Little Life which will be performed by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and Revisor performed by Canada’s Kidd Pivot.”
The festiva will kick off with a free opening event at Elder Park with a performance by Spinifex Gum featuring Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Marilya and Emma Donovan.
Adelaide Festival runs from Friday March 3 – Sunday March 19 2023.
For more information or to book tickets, head to the website.
FULL LINEUP OF ARTISTS:
Free Opening Event – Elder Park
• Spinifex Gum featuring Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Marilya and Emma Donovan
Theatre
• A Little Life – Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Sydney Theatre Company
• Dogs of Europe – Belarus Free Theatre
• The Sheep Song – FC Bergman and Toneelhuis
• Grey Rock – Remote Theater Project
• Hans and Gret – Windmill Theatre Company and Sandpit
• The River that Ran Uphill – Slingsby
• Maureen: Harbinger of Death – Jonny Hawkins and Nell Ranney
Dance and Dance Theatre
• Revisor – Kidd Pivot
• Jurrungu Ngan-ga (Straight Talk) – Marrageku
• Tracker – Australian Dance Theatre in association with ILBIJERRI Theatre Company
Music
• Escolania de Montserrat
• Kronos Quartet – Five Decades with special guest Mahsa Vahdat
• WOMADelaide
• Lorde with MUNA and Stellie
• Heartland – William Barton and Véronique Serret
• Ngapa William Cooper – Lior, Nigel Westlake, Lou Bennett and Sarah Gory
• Cédric Tiberghien
• The Cage Project – Matthias Schack-Arnott and Cédric Tiberghien
• Camp Cope
• Allday with BARKAA and Kobie Dee
• Poème: Chamber Landscapes curated by Paavali Jumppanen
• So Much Myself: Piano Portraits – Sonya Lifschitz and Robert Davidson
• Hear My Eyes: Pan’s Labyrinth x Sleep D
• Julia Jacklin
• Fantastical Journeys – Jennifer Koh, Emilia Hoving & Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
• Music for Other Worlds – Alex Frayne and Paul Grabowsky
• Yann Tiersen
• Jennifer Koh – Solo show
• wurukur djuanduk balag (Ancestors are Calling) – Lou Bennett
• Karin Schaupp and Flinders Quartet – Musica Viva Australia
• Celestial – Adelaide Chamber Singers
Opera
• Messa da Requiem – Ballett Zürich
Physical Theatre
• Air Play – Acrobuffos
Visual Arts
• Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media – Art Gallery of South Australia
• HAVEN – James Newitt – Samstag
• Mis Remembered Bones Chapter 2 – Emily Wardill – Samstag
• Bruce Nuske with Khai Liew – Samstag
• The Arrangements: assembling nature – Catherine Truman – Carrick Hill
• A river that flows both ways – Selected works from rīvus, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney – Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
• Biotic Commune – Kasia Tons – Botanic Gardens Museum of Economic Botany
Installation
• Lost Dog’s Disco – ENESS
• Unvanished – Kent Morris, Studio John Fish and James Henry
Adelaide Writers Week
• Adelaide Writers’ Week
• A Celebration of the Life and Work of Tom Stoppard
• David Hare Live
• Insiders
Talks
• Breakfast with Papers
By the Numbers – Festival stats
17 Days
52 Events
11 World Premieres
- Kronos Quartet
- Ngapa William Cooper
- Hans and Gret
- The John Cage Project (World Premiere Season)
- Tracker (World Premiere Season)
- The River that Ran Uphill
- So Much Myself: Piano Portraits
- Hear My Eyes: Pan’s Labyrinth x Sleep D
- Music for Other Worlds
- Samstag exhibitions
- The Arrangements: assembling nature (Catherine Truman)
8 Australian Premieres
- A Little Life
- Revisor
- Escolania de Montserrat
- Dogs of Europe
- Messa da Requiem
- The Sheep Song
- Fantastical Journeys (Jennifer Koh and the ASO)
- Biotic Commune (Museum of Economic Botany exhibition)
17 events exclusive to Adelaide
- A Little Life
- Revisor
- Escolania de Montserrat
- Dogs of Europe
- Messa da Requiem
- The Sheep Song
- Grey Rock
- Cédric Tiberghien
- Chamber Landscapes
- Jennifer Koh – Solo show
- Celestial – Adelaide Chamber Singers
- Fantastical Journeys (Jennifer Koh and the ASO)
- Music for Other Worlds
- Andy Warhol – AGSA
- Samstag exhibitions
- The Arrangements: assembling nature (Catherine Truman)
- Biotic Commune (Museum of Economic Botany exhibition)
Free Events
- Spinifex Gum
- Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media – Art Gallery of South Australia
- HAVEN – James Newitt – Samstag
- Mis Remembered Bones Chapter 2 – Emily Wardill – Samstag
- Bruce Nuske with Khai Liew – Samstag
- The Arrangements: assembling nature – Catherine Truman – Carrick Hill
- A river that flows both ways – Selected works from rīvus, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney – Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
- Biotic Commune – Kasia Tons – Botanic Gardens Museum of Economic Botany
- Lost Dogs’ Disco
- Unvanished
- Adelaide Writers’ Week (all events except for A Celebration of the Life and Work of Tom Stoppard and David Hare Live)
- Breakfast with Papers
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