The city’s long-held strategy of concentrating most of its performing arts festivals in one month appears to have paid off.
Adelaide’s crowded March calendar of artistic festivals have negotiated the cost-of-living crisis with record or near-record box office returns.recorded a total box office of $5,952,135 since opening on March 3, a fraction under its record of $5,989,183 set in 2019.
Christian Spuck’s production of Verdi’s ‘Messa da Requiem’ was a sold-out centrepiece of Adelaide Festival.With a total attendance of 242,251 for its 52 events across music, opera, dance, film and visual arts, the festival boasted several completely sold-out shows., an epic choreographed version of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece grappling with death.
Then there was Adelaide Writers’ Week, which under new director Louise Adler attracted 17,000 people to the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden. Writers Week attracted more publicity than usual when some sponsorsThe highest-selling book at Writers’ Week wasby Fintan O’Toole, closely followed by
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