The 37th Hong Kong Arts Festival 2009 Commissions, Asian and World Premiere Programmes

October 15th, 2008

NEW WORKS / WORLD PREMIERES

1. Music:ExxonMobil Vision: Teresa Suen Harp Recital (New work: Eine kleine Suite uber Engel by Chan Hing-yan)
2. Music:ExxonMobil Vision: Primary Shapes – An Eternal Golden Braid #
3. Music:Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra – Music About China 3 (New works: Suspended Ancient Coffins on the Cliffs in Sichuan (Chinese Music Arrangement) and Three Melodies of West Yunnan (the 3rd Movement by Guo Wenjing)
4. Music:Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Sergio Tiempo (New work: Electric Counterpoint by Samson Young)
5. Dance:Company Ea Sola – The White Body
6. Theatre:Murder in San Jose*
7. Theatre:Black Swan *
8. Theatre:Danny Yung Experimental Theatre – Book of Ghosts  

# Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival
* Commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival
  Co-commissioned and co-produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Zuni Icosahedron
 

ASIAN PREMIERES

1. Opera:Latvian National Opera – Alcina
2. Opera:Latvian National Opera – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
3. Theatre:Theatre Royal Bath Productions and the Old Vic present a Peter Hall Company Production – Pygmalion
4. Theatre:The Wooster Group – The Emperor Jones
5. Dance:English National Ballet – Alice in Wonderland
6. Dance Theatre:Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan – In-I
7. Family Choice:Circo Aereo – Un cirque plus juste
8. Family Choice:Karbido – The Table

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