Annual Adelaide Festival
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:53 pm
2012 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL - 2-18 March
Adelaide Festival marked its transition to an annual event last night at a stellar launch featuring details of the program’s world and Australian premieres.
Over 17 days from Friday, March 2 to Sunday, March 18, Adelaide Festival will feature 68 events, including 37 world premieres and 62 Australian premieres in 386 performances from 970 international and Australian artists.
Program highlights include the Australian premiere of A Streetcar, Krzysztof Warlikowski’s play based on Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Name Desire, starring French screen legend Isabelle Huppert; Tony Award winning British actor Jonathan Pryce in Harold Pinter’s masterwork The Caretaker; and French master of theatrical spectacle James Thiérrée, performing his new large-scale fantastical solo work Raoul.
Asia’s leading contemporary dance company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, presents a beautiful performance inspired by traditional Chinese calligraphy, Water Stains on the Wall; legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, the maestro behind Cinema Paradiso and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, will lead the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, six Italian soloists and a massed choir in a spectacular outdoor performance; and US baritone Jubilant Sykes leads a company of 200 performers and musicians in Leonard Bernstein’s masterpiece Mass.
The full program is available now at Adelaide Festival website.