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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Dean Newcomb. Photo: Carmen Alcedo.
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In the Quiet review: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra premieres a superb concerto

With the world premiere of a blistering concerto and the Australian debut of a powerhouse young conductor, In the Quiet…

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Nordic Lights performance. Photo: Supplied.
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Sanctuary Series review: relaxing to the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra on a yoga mat

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Nordic Lights was an immersive concert experience unlike any other.

Alexander Briger conducts the Australian World Orchestra. Briger has his arms raised dramatically and his head is thrown back; orchestra members are arrayed before him, with audience members visible behind him.
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2026 season announcements: our rolling guide to the performing arts

Orchestras, recital centres, theatre companies and more: we're compiling a list of 2026 season announcements, to be updated regularly, for…

British countertenor James Laing as the Refugee in State Opera South Australia's 2025 production, 'Flight'. A distressed-looking man dressed in slightly dishevelled, mostly brown clothing, stands in an airport terminal between two rows of uncomfortable-looking metal and plastic seats. The blue-lit panelled wall behind him evokes the bars of a prison cell, while four curving beams of light projected against the walls increase the impression of this man being trapped or avoiding the spotlight.
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Opera review: Flight, Her Majesty’s Theatre

State Opera South Australia’s ‘Flight’ is opera for our times.

Composite: Spanish conductor Conductor Lucía Marín
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So you want my arts job: Conductor

If you are intuitive, passionate, generous and able to understand a piece of music as a whole, perhaps conducting is…

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's 2025 season hero image. Five members of the Orchestra, three women and two men, pose casually against a blue wall with their instruments.

From Viennese classics to world premieres: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s 2025 season

A celebration of Vienna and the composers who called it home and a four-part Brahms celebration are among the highlights…

Iceland's Sigur Rós will perform a series of orchestral concerts in Australia in May 2025. Three white men pose in black against a black background.
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Sigur Rós announce Australian orchestral tour with ASO, MSO and others

The popular Icelandic post-rock group will perform with a 41-piece chamber orchestra in order to bring their latest album to…

Against a dark windswept sky, a young man with glasses is holding a wand. To his right is a white-bearded man, on his left are a young man and woman.
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Music review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Concert, Adelaide Entertainment Centre

The musical world of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' becomes ever darker as our hero makes preparations for the…

An orchestra scene, with a conductor at the left and musicians on the right.
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Music review: Symphony Series 5 – Fearless, Adelaide Town Hall

Lord Byron writ large in music at the Adelaide Town Hall!

A concert hall. At the front can be seen rows of audience. Further back is the orchestra, with mostly woodwind instruments.
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Music review: Rachmaninov: The Symphonies, Adelaide Town Hall

A dazzling display of virtuosic musicianship with the ASO and conductor Andrew Litton.

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