Even if the rhythmic complexity of Fly LIVE! and its high volume levels were challenging at times, the work’s fascinating blend of jazz, rock, and contemporary orchestral sounds and rhythms …
Coincidentally, the Chinese title is the same as Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. While the setting here is 1930s Shanghai rather than 1960s Hong Kong, the theme of …
Canadian director Robert Lepage entranced audiences in Hong Kong with his autobiographical 887 five years ago, a solo performance aided by his masterful use of toy-size props. For this year’s …
The music, shaped by the ensemble’s founder-conductor Alessandrini using neat hand gestures from his seat at the harpsichord, was propelled by a solid and sensitive basso continuo section (cellist Alessandro …
An article in the programme book elaborated on the production process of this Peony, with online rehearsals during the Covid-19 pandemic and a 40-day “boot camp” in Tongxiang, a city …
From the mixtape to the playlist, curating disparate music around a central theme has become something almost anyone with basic technology can do at home. So where does that leave …
Inspired by a joint exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh and Gustav Klimt at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum in 2015, the ensemble’s chief conductor, Peter Dijkstra, and artistic director, …
It is an opera within an opera, and opens with a prologue where we learn that Vienna’s richest man is hosting a party. To entertain his guests after dinner, he …
One of the classic Chinese novels and one of the world’s great works of literature, “Dream of the Red Chamber” (1791), by Cao Xueqin, is an epic depicting the gradual …
Wu, a Taiwanese theatre actor, will present Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” as a Peking opera in Hong Kong. Photo: Hong Kong Arts Festival Society Wu, who is the production’s artistic director, …