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2026 Adelaide Festival reveals its first two productions

Fearless French actor Isabelle Huppert and acclaimed early music specialists Ensemble Pygmalion will perform exclusively at the 2026 Adelaide Festival.
28 Aug 2025 0:31
Richard Watts
Isabelle Huppert in 'Mary Said What She Said,' exclusive to the 2026 Adelaide Festival. The photograph depicts Huppert in a stylised stage performance, her white-painted face distorted and her arms thrown out as she cries aloud in grief or anger.

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Isabelle Huppert in ‘Mary Said What She Said,’ exclusive to the 2026 Adelaide Festival. Photo: Lucie Jansch.

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The 2026 Adelaide Festival will feature the critically acclaimed French actor Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher, Elle) as Mary, Queen of Scots in a one-woman show designed, lit and directed by the late Robert Wilson, and a triple bill by accomplished early music specialists Ensemble Pygmalion, a French choir and orchestra.

The early look at Adelaide Festival’s 2026 program – the first festival programmed by new Artistic Director Matthew Lutton OAM – was revealed today (Thursday 28 August).

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts

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