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    This opera turns the orchestra pit into a lake

    Michael Bailey
    Michael BaileyRich List co-editor

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    Every opera director wants to fill their theatre, but for Robert Lepage that doesn’t just mean filling it with ticket holders.

    Ahead of the Canadian bringing his adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s The Nightingale & Other Fables to Adelaide Festival this week, he has pumped 67,000 litres of water into the orchestra pit of the city’s Festival Theatre.

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