The 2026 Adelaide Festival program, launched today (Monday 27 August), has a strong focus on music, including a free opening night concert in Elder Park by Pulp, the Britpop band who prove that ‘irony and elegance can go hand in hand‘, as well as the previously announced inclusion of acclaimed French orchestra and choir, Ensemble Pygmalion.
‘One of the things that I’m really excited about is making sure the Festival – not so much in the ‘26 Festival, but in future Adelaide Festivals – is commissioning large scale work, which is [exercising] the same sort of creative muscle that you do at a theatre company. But one of the big, exciting shifts of course is that I’m thinking curatorially about all the art forms,’ he tells ArtsHub.
