Fast becoming the highlight of Sydney’s summer calendar, Sydney Festival has announced the full details of its 2015 program, taking in music, theatre, dance, opera, classical, circus, cabaret, installations and much more.
Sydney Festival 2015 will again take over Hyde Park in January next year – with its Festival Village this time featuring both the Famous Spiegeltent and the Aurora Spiegeltent – as well as precincts in Carriageworks, Parramatta and Bankstown.
There’ll also be a program in The Domain, including a mammoth Beat The Drum event on Friday January 16 celebrating 40 years of triple j (formerly Double J), with sets by Hilltop Hoods, The Presets, The Cat Empire, You Am I, Vance Joy, Ball Park Music, The Preatures and more.
Other music highlights at Sydney Festival 2015 include Atomic Bomb! The Music Of William Onyeabor (a tribute to the Nigerian synth pioneer featuring Gotye, Sinkane, Money Mark and Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor); Tex Perkins taking on the spirit of Johnny Cash for one night at Parramatta Gaol in Far From Folsom; Ben Frost and Tim Hecker sharing the Joan Sutherland Theatre stage at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday January 11; Syria’s finest Omar Souleyman returning; and Ed Kuepper joined by members of the Sydney Chamber Orchestra at the City Recital Hall Angel Place on Saturday January 24.
Sydney Festival’s massive arts and performance program next year includes James Thierree’s Tabac Rouge, playing at Sydney Theatre from Thursday January 8 – Friday January 23; a bigger-than-ever Carriageworks schedule headlined bythe romantic hand ballet that is Kiss & Cry; Indian production The Kitchen (in which audiences will not only marvel at the sights and smells of Indian cooking, but get to taste the recipes as well); anda screening and live performance of the score to The Artist at the Sydney Opera House.
And while the Hyde Park Festival Village will be its usual self all day and through the night, one particular highlight will be Higher Ground, a mind-bending maze of colour and geometry reaching over two storeys high – perfect for your mid-Festival Instagram selfies.
Sydney Festival 2015 runs from Thursday January 8 – Monday January 26. For the full program and ticketing info, visit the official website.
