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![‘The Nightingale and Other Fables’ upcoming at Adelaide Festival 2024, directed by Robert Lepage. Photo: Michael Cooper. A performer in traditional Chinese garment standing on a rooftop with a branch extending out into the violet night sky.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/vd-oYqjY.jpg?w=310)
Orientalism, a stain that taints Australian opera?
From yellowface to chinoiserie – Orientalism pervades Western stages, so will that include Adelaide Festival’s upcoming, lauded centrepiece opera?
![A promotional image for Opera Australia. Against the sails of the Sydney Opera House a figure in red looks up to the sky.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Pink-dress-brand-image-1920x960-1.jpg?w=310)
What our opera companies are offering in 2024
New leadership means new energy for major companies in an exciting year.
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Summer festival season heats up as programs launch nationwide
Adelaide, Perth and Sydney Festivals launched their 2024 programs this week, with Mona Foma waiting eagerly in the wings.
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Overcoming threshold anxiety
Geelong Arts Centre’s redevelopment opens the venue up to the public eye, in a way that’s deliberately designed to ensure…
![Salamander, Brisbane Festival. Image: Damien Bredburg](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/BF2023_LandscapeHero_Credit-Damien-Bredburg_Salamander_92.jpg?w=310)
Commitment to community at the Brisbane Festival
Celebrating home-grown talent, the Festival also includes significant international collaborations.
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Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle is finally heading to Brisbane
Several years in the making and delayed because of COVID, Wagner’s monumental work comes to Queensland for the first time.
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Australia’s first-ever festival of Gilbert and Sullivan’s works opens in Adelaide
A 10-day festival celebrating the comic genius of Gilbert and Sullivan is attracting new audiences and die-hard supporters.
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The vision needed to curate a successful music festival
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival, gears up to present a powerful 2023 festival with a…
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Radical optimism on the island
The final festival from Lindy Hume saw artists making a range of important statements about their life experiences.
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Wagner's monumental Ring Cycle comes to regional Victoria
In an historic first, Melbourne Opera is opening its production of the Ring Cycle at the Ulumbarra Theatre in Bendigo.