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2025

The final year of Festival Director Olivia Ansell's tenure, Sydney Festival's 49th edition was splashed across theatres, parks, galleries, a courthouse, hidden gardens, town halls and by the shoreline. Across 23 days the Festival welcome 1,008 artists and staged 136 events, including 26 world premieres, 28 Australian exclusives and more than 12 nights of free live music.


BLAK OUT

Akala 

Caring for Spirit Talk hosted by Rudi Bremer 

Cash Savage and The Last Drinks & BARKAA 

Dance Workshop with Tynga Williams of Brolga Dance Academy 

Djanaba 

Dobby: Warrangu; 'River Story

Jacky
Belvoir 

Mason Browne 

Ngabu
Aunty Lola Ryan 

People, Protocol, and Place Talk hosted by Rudi Bremer 

Plant A Promise
Henrietta Baird 

Plant a Promise Talk hosted by Clarence Slockee 

Radical Son: Bilambiyal 

Redfern Renaissance
Belvoir 

Sunset Performance: Dyagula 

Sunset Performance: Mi-kaisha 

Vigil: Gunyah 

Vigil:Truths featuring 3% 

Water Memory Meditation Workshop with Akala Newman 

Weaving Workshop with Adalene Williams of Plant a Promise   

Weaving Workshop with Malima Indigenous Weaving and Education (Gweagal / Dharawal) 


MUSIC 

ACO Up Close: Legacies
Australian Chamber Orchestra 

Allysha Joy Plays Roberta Flack
Astral People 

Aurus 

Bach: Birth and Destiny
Bach Akademie Australia 

Brendan Maclean 

Chela 

Cumbiamuffin 

Dark with Excessive Bright
Omega Ensemble 

Detroit's Music Institute: Chez Damier & Alton Miller
Electronic Music Life 

Diola 

Dizzy Days 

DJ Ingrid 

DJ Justin Time 

Emma Pask Latin Jazz Orchestra: Cosita Divina 

Ganna with Tal Arditi 

Hak Baker 

Ishmael Ensemble 

Jack Shit 

Jalen Ngonda 

JFDR 

Katie Noonan: Jeff Buckley's Grace 

Kristelle 

La Foxy Fuzz 

Maggie Tra 

Mama de Leche 

Mary Ancheta Quartet 

No Sax No Clar 

Not Drowning, Waving & George Telek: Tabaran 

Oyobe 

Parvyn 

Peptalk 

Perry Keys: Black & White Town 

Phil Toke 

Rakish 

Rufus Wainwright 

Setwun & the Soulstronauts play Roy Ayers
Astral People 

Smithers 

Sveta 

Starfish Club: Dannielle de Andrea 

Starfish Club: Ruby Jackson 

Sydney Symphony Under the Stars
Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Greater Sydney Parklands 

The Cage Project
Matthias Schack-Arnott & Cedric Tiberghien | Musica Viva australia 

The Bridal Lament 
Rainbow Chan 陳雋然

Thunderfox 

Tijuana Taxi 

Voli K 

Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden
Brett Whiteley Foundation & Art Gallery of NSW 

Yaya Bey 

Yogi 


OPERA 

Cinderella (Cendrillon)
Opera Australia 

Lotte Betts-Dean 

Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera 


CABARET 

Christie Whelan Browne: Life in Plastic 

Rachel Beck: In Her Own Words 

Tina: A Tropical Love Story
BRG Productions & Ben Graetz 


MUSIC THEATRE 

Converted! 
Australian Theatre for Young People


THEATRE 

A Model Murder 

Antigone in the Amazon
Milo Rau & NTGENT 

As You Like It or The Land Acknowledgement
Crow's Theatre & Cliff Cardinal 

Dark Noon
Fix+Foxy, Glynis Henderson Productions & The Pleasance

Multiple Bad Things
Back to Back Theatre & Sydney Opera House

The Tamilization of Ahilam Ratnamoham
UTP 


DANCE & PHYSICAL THEATRE 

Afterworld
Sue Healey & Laurance Pike 

All In
Dance Makers Collective 

Animal
Cirque Alfonse 

Anito
Justin Talplacido Shoulder 

A Taste of Spain
Compania Pepa Molina & Western Sydney Youth Orchestra 

Cowboy
Michael Smith, Form Dance Projects & The Farm 

Katma
Azzam Mohammed & PRY Fairfield 

The Chronicles
Stephanie Lake Company 


FAMILY 

Airtime
Branch Nebula 

BullyBully
Maas Theater en Dans 

Colour Maze
Amigo & Amigo 

Hive Festival: Art Gallery of New South Wales 

Hive Festival: Blacktown Arts 

Swing! Circus at Darling Harbour
Sydney Trapeze School 

The Whale
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre & Bondi Pavilion 


WORKSHOPS 

Contemporary Dance Masterclass
Stephanie Lake Company 

Freestyle Dance Lab Masterclass
Azzam Mohammed 

Moving Sound Masterclass
Sue Healy & Laurance Pike 

Street Dance Workshop
Azzam Mohamed 

Sunrise Yoga 

Trapeze and Circus Skills Workshops
Sydney Trapeze School 


TALKS 

Currents: The Water Understands Panel Discussion
Manly Art Gallery & Museum 

In Conversation with James Cameron
Australian National Maritime Museum 

In Conversation with Kate McClymont

Longhouse: William Chan and Rainbow Chan in Conversation
Contemporary Asian Australian Performance 

Stories From Here
Outloud 

The Art of Architecture: First Nations Design
Chau Chak Wing Museum 

William Yang: Milestone 


VISUAL ART AND INSTALLATION 

Art Up Late with: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Museum, Manly Art Gallery & Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When
Art Gallery of New South Wales 

Bagan Bariwariganyan: Echoes of Country 

Cao Fei: My City is Yours
Art Gallery of NSW 

Enigma: Immersive Sound and Video Art
Forumprojects 

Julie Merehtu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 

Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru
Australian Museum 

Magritte
Art Gallery of NSW 

Re-stor(y)ing Oceania
Latai Taumoepeau & Elisabeta Heta 

Same/Same Different
Bankstown Biennale 

Telly Tuita: The Ta and Va of Tongpop 

The Water Understands
Manly Art Gallery & Museum 

What We Leave Behind
Cave Urban 


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