Adelaide Festival of Arts, 1968

The fifth Adelaide Festival of Arts was held 7-23 March 1968.

The Festival was programmed by a committee consisting of Sir Robert Helpmann, John Baily, BLD Coughlan, Wal Cherry, David Galliver and CJ Glover. While Marlene Dietrich was indisputably the Festival's star attraction, other highlights included the Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Marionette Theatre, a performance of Mahler's Eighth symphony by the combined South Australian and Melbourne symphony orchestras, opera singers Marie Collier and Tito Gobbi, and Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band.

The poster shows a character from The royal hunt of the sun, a performance at the 1966 Festival.

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