The 42nd Adelaide Festival runs from 26 February to 14 March 2027: 54 events in 17 days, with seven world premieres. Its musical heart is the Festival Theatre at the Adelaide Festival Centre, where Romeo Castellucci's staging of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, first seen at Salzburg, plays on a water-filled stage lit by real fire, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra under Lidiya Yankovskaya.
On 5 March the same stage hosts The Complete Philip Glass Piano Etudes: ten pianists, among them Maki Namekawa, Aaron Diehl and Anton Batagov, marking the composer's 90th year. Around the city, il Pomo d'Oro make their Australian debut at Adelaide Town Hall, Ólafur Arnalds plays Thebarton Theatre on 28 February and Latvian Voices sing in St Peter's Cathedral.
WOMADelaide falls in the middle, from 5 to 8 March, so one trip covers both. Tickets are on sale now, and anyone under 40 can buy $40 seats for most shows while the allocation lasts.
