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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 11:29

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 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