2001


OPERA

Rossini's La Cenerentola
A co-production by Hong Kong Arts Festival, Los Angeles Opera and Pittsburgh Opera
Libretto: Jacopo Ferretti, after Charles Perrault
Conductor: Marco Zambelli

Maria de Buenos Aires
Production: I Fiamminghi

Chinese Opera Extravaganza

Cantonese Opera-Towering Legends of The Three Kingdoms

 

MUSIC

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with the London Symphony Chorus
Principal Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen
Soloists: Alexandra Coku (Soprano), Birgit Remmert (Alto), Hakan Hagegard (Baritone)

Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble

Shun Hing Group Celebrity Concert-Orchestra della Toscana
Artistic Director: Giorgio Battistelli
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Soloist: Andrea Tacchi (Violin)

Yo-Yo Ma & Orchestra della Toscana, an evening with Rolexs
Artistic Director: Giorgio Battistelli
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Soloists: Yo-Yo Ma (Cello), Giovanni Gnocchi (Cello)

Yuri Bashmet & Moscow Soloists
Soloists: Yuri Bashmet (Viola), Stepan Yakovich (Violin), Wu Man (Pipa)

Florilegium
Soloist: Deborah York (Soprano)

Emerson String Quartet

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestr
Conductor: Peter Oundjian

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra - Huqin Festival of Hong Kong, A Hundred Years of Erhu
Music Director & Conductor: Yan Huichang

Nana Mouskouri

Buena Vista Social Clu
Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez and Omara Portuondo

Drum Power

The Percussion Ensemble of the Temples of Kerala and Yufuin Genryu Daiko

 

MUSIC / FILM

DRACULA: The Music and Film
Original Music by Philip Glass
Performed by Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet
Conductor: Michael Riesman
To Universal Pictures' 1931 film classic Dracula starring Bela Lugosi

 

EXXONMOBIL VISION

Voices on the Edge
Countertenor: Ray Chan
Soprano: Jovita Leung
Conductor:Johnny Poon

Candy Lo on The Labyrinth of Mirror and Flower

On & On Youth Theatre Workshop-?i-D Generation - NATURAL HIGH???

 

JAZZ

McCoy Tyner Trio

 

DANCE

Peter Schaufuss Ballet
Midnight Express
Swan Lake
Sleeping Beauty
Nutcracker
Choreography: Peter Schaufuss

White Oak Dance Project

A Brave New World of Suzie Wong
Choreography: Yuri Ng
Text: Michael Lam
Music Director: Kung Chi Shing
Cast: Abby Chan, Elsie Chau, Cathy Chu, David Leung, Ong Yong Lock, Guthrie Yip, Congo YuK
Special Appearance: Eason Chan

Kinetic Body Operatics
A Dance-Opera Choreographed and Performed by Mui Cheuk Yin, Sunny Pang and Yeung Chi Kuk
Live Music by Kung Chi Shing

Tristan Isolde
A production of Theaterhaus Stuttgart and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Idea, choreography, dance: Marcia Haydee, Ismael Ivo
Director: Marcio Aurelio
Dramaturg: Helge-Bjorn Meyer

Chunky Move
Export File - C.O.R.R.U.P.T.E.D 2
All The Better To Eat You With
Artistic Director: Gideon Obarzanek
Choreography: Gideon Obarzanek in collaboration with the dancers of Chunky Move

 

THEATRE

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre-We Are One Family

GOKU (Monkey King)
A Co-production of Kageboushi Theatre Company (Japan) & Hong Kong Arts Festival
In association with Beijing Art Troupe for Children (Beijing/China), Chung Ying Theatre Company (hong Kong/PRC), Joyful Theatre (Seoul/Korea)

A Servant to Two Masters
A Young Vic/ Royal Shakespeare Company Co-production
By Carlo Goldini in a new Adaptation by Lee Hall
Direction: Tim Supple

Meno Fortas, Vilnius-Hamlet
Director: Eimuntas Nekro?ius

Nixon's Nixon
A Play by Russell Lees
Produced by Fifth Amendment and P&S Productions
Starring Tim Donoghue and Keith Jochim
Directed by: Charles Towers

 

ENTERTAINMENT

Drum Power
The Percussion Ensemble of the Temples of Kerala and Yufuin Genryu Daiko

GOKU (Monkey King)
A Co-production of Kageboushi Theatre Company (Japan) & Hong Kong Arts Festival
In association with Beijing Art Troupe for Children (Beijing/China), Chung Ying Theatre Company (Hong Kong/PRC), Joyful Theatre (Seoul/Korea)

 

EXHIBITION

Buddhist Sculptures: New Discoveries from Qingzhou, Shandong Province

New Generation from Korea - The Self and Others