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Robert Lepage opera announced for Adelaide Festival 2024

Stravinsky’s ‘The Nightingale and Other Fables’ has been programmed by Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE next year, with more tentpole operas to come.

21 Jun 2023

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Robert Lepage will direct Stravinsky’s ‘The Nightingale and Other Fables’ at Adelaide Festival 2024. Pictured is a scene from the Canadian Opera Company’s 2018 production of the opera. Photo: Michael Cooper.

Adelaide Festival has announced its centrepiece presentation for 2024: Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Nightingale and Other Fables, directed by acclaimed Canadian director Robert Lepage.

The announcement maintains the tradition – reestablished by former co-Artistic Directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield AO, whose tenure began with Barrie Kosky’s Saul in 2017 – of placing major operatic projects at the heart of the Festival.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts