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Art Festival: Hong Kong Arts Festival
Event: Tetris (https://www.hk.artsfestival.org/en/programmes/tetris-by-arch8/)
Genre: Dance
Artists: Arch 8
Description:
A video game hits the stage! Based on a popular video game in which players create order out of chaos, Tetris swaps blocks for bodies in a performance space. Four dancers flip over, slide under and pile on the top of each other, stacking in various configurations, frequently defying gravity. As their interlocking shapes unfold, we learn about making connections and how to fit in with others while staying true to oneself. A highly participatory and interactive performance in which audiences can join and play.
Tetris has been an international hit with young audiences, and in January 2016 won the People’s Choice Victor Award at the International Performing Arts for Youth showcase in Montréal. Bring the family and join in!
Date/Time/Location:
10 Mar 2017 (Fri), 8:00 PM ; The HKJC Amphitheatre, HKAPA
11 Mar 2017 (Sat), 3:00 PM; The HKJC Amphitheatre, HKAPA
11 Mar 2017 (Sat), 8:00 PM; The HKJC Amphitheatre, HKAPA
Ticket Info:
Standard: $220 / $140
Student: $110 / $70
How to Purchase: https://ticket.urbtix.hk/internet/en_US/eventDetail/30710
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Event: Dream of the Red Chamber (https://www.hk.artsfestival.org/en/programmes/sfo-hkaf-dream-of-red-chamber/)
Genre: Vocal / Opera
Description:
For almost half a century, the HKAF has brought visionary new works to Hong Kong. This stunning co-production with the San Francisco Opera marks another milestone, which is bound to be a highlight of the Festival’s 45th anniversary.
Based on the masterpiece by Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber is considered one of China’s four great classical novels. It details the lives of members of the Jia Clan, whose good fortune is assured when one of its daughters becomes an Imperial concubine. When she falls from power, their decline follows swiftly. Central to this drama is the love triangle between the young nobleman, Bao Yu, and two very different women: one his spiritual soulmate, the other a worldly beauty.
The composer is celebrated Chinese-American musician Bright Sheng, who, along with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, has adapted the novel into a two-act opera with English language libretto. Iconic Taiwanese director Stan Lai joins forces with Tim Yip, the Academy Award-winning designer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, to stage this visionary work. Maestro Muhai Tang, acclaimed for his “exquisite attention to color and detail” (Opera Today), will conduct the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and an exceptional cast of Asia’s finest singers including Hong Kong’s own Amanda Li making her debut in a major international production. Hong Kong is the first Asian city to see this new opera after its September 2016 premiere in San Francisco. Hong Kong is the first Asian city to see this new opera after its premiere in San Francisco in September 2016.
Production:
Music: Bright Sheng
Libretto: David Henry Hwang, Bright Sheng (Based on the book by Cao Xueqin)
Conductor: Muhai Tang
Director: Stan Lai
Date/Time/Location:
17 Mar 2017 (Fri), 7:30 PM Grand Theatre, HK Cultural Centre
18 Mar 2017 (Sat), 7:30 PM Grand Theatre, HK Cultural Centre
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Event: Elisso Virsaladze Piano Recital (https://www.hk.artsfestival.org/en/programmes/elisso-virsaladze-piano-recital/)
Artist: Elisso Virsaladze
Description:
Elisso Virsaladze plays with unhurried grace and charm. Her Schumann and Schubert are of exceptional beauty — and her Brahms and Liszt stunning, the fine playing displays exquisite control and a rich tone.
Elisso Virsaladze shot to fame when she won third prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962. She was just 20. Four years later she won the Schumann Competition in Germany. Her distinguished career as an international recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with the world’s great orchestras under such conductors as Muti, Sanderling, Sawallisch and Svetlanov stretches over more than half a century. In her eighth decade, she is busier than ever; performing, giving master-classes and serving on the jury at many of the world’s most prestigious music competitions. In addition to being honoured “People’s Artist of the USSR”, the highest artistic award in Russia, her many recordings reveal the vibrant musical personality of an exceptional artist.
Festival concert-goers have the rare chance to experience the magic of Virsaladze’s playing in both a concert with the outstanding David Oistrakh Quartet and in a solo recital featuring her signature Schumann repertoire. A special highlight of the Festival.
Date/Time/Location:
18 Feb 2017 (Sat), 8:00 PM Concert Hall, HK City Hall
Ticket Information:
Standard: $150 — $450
Student: $75 — $175
