Adelaide Town Hall

Adelaide Town Hall — Adelaide’s heritage concert venue

Adelaide Town Hall sits on King William Street in the centre of the Adelaide CBD, two minutes’ walk from Rundle Mall and five minutes from the Adelaide Festival Centre. The building opened in 1866 to an Edmund Wright design and has operated continuously as both Adelaide’s civic hall and the city’s principal concert venue since. The Town Hall is the principal symphonic home of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the regular Adelaide venue for Musica Viva‘s Adelaide subscription series.

The room

1,200 seats across the main hall and the gallery. Acoustically warm — the heritage architecture (high ceilings, exposed timber and stone surfaces) produces a generously reverberant sound that suits Romantic-period repertoire and choral works particularly well. The smaller capacity than the eastern-states symphony halls produces an intimate, close-to-the-stage listening experience.

Getting there

Walk from any Adelaide CBD hotel — the city is small and walkable. Pair the concert with the East End dining precinct (Sunny’s Pizza, Africola, the Botanic Gardens Restaurant), the Adelaide Central Market on a weekend morning, or a daytime visit to the Art Gallery of South Australia (10 min walk via the North Terrace cultural boulevard).