Teddy Tahu Rhodes to Star in Kaija Saariaho's 'Innocence' (Adelaide Festival)
On Monday 3 November, the Adelaide Festival announced their full program for 2025, which includes Kaija Saariaho's opera Innocence (starring Teddy Tahu Rhodes) and the welcome return of the Daylight Express series (Friday 28 February–Friday 14 March) in Elder Hall.
The Festival kicks off with Australia's opera event of the year – the epic, international thriller Innocence. Following its sellout triumph at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, and immediately before its New York debut at the Metropolitan Opera, this astonishing and epic production has its exclusive Australian season in the 2025 Adelaide Festival. Already being hailed as the greatest opera of the 21st Century, a 'masterpiece' (The New York Times and Evening Standard), 'an astonishing creation' (The Telegraph) and 'a triumph' (San Francisco Chronicle).
Innocence is directed by visionary Australian director Simon Stone who returns after 2018's sold-out production of Thyestes. This contemporary tale of morality and mortality by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and Finnish novelist Sofi Oksanen features Australian operatic sensation Teddy Tahu Rhodes and international opera stars Sean Panikkar, Jenny Carlstedt, Tuomas Pursio and Claire de Sévigné. The score will be performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Clément Mao-Takacs, with a combined chorus of 32 Adelaide Chamber Singers and State Opera South Australia Chorus members.
Friday 28 March 7.30pm
Sunday 2 March 5.30pm
Tuesday 4 March 7.30pm
Wednesday 5 March 6.00pm
Adelaide Festival Centre
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