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OzAsia Festival 2025: what’s hot and what’s new

Opera comes back from the dead, The Female Pope, dance in public spaces, and the greatest debate on never moving out.

24 Jul 2025 9:00

Celina Lei

Photo of Hiromi wearing a red dress sitting on a leather couch alongside four string quartets.

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Virtuosic Japanese pianist Hiromi to feature at OzAsia Festival 2025. Photo: Mari Amita.

OzAsia Festival returns to Adelaide for a cultural feast across four weekends this October, bringing crowd favourites and new experiments.

With the Adelaide Festival Centre currently under redevelopment, this year’s OzAsia will weave into the very fabric of the city, with venues ranging from Adelaide Town Hall and Botanic Gardens to Her Majesty’s Theatre and Vitalstatistix.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_

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