Past Programmes - 2008-2012
2008
OPERA
Teatro Regio di Parma - Verdi: Rigoletto
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Libertto: Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse
Director: Elisabetta Brusa based on ideas of Pier Luigi Samaritani
Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson
Chorus Master: Marttino Faggiani with Teatro Regio di Parma Orchestra and Chorus
CHINESE OPERA
Beijing Opera - The Master of Chou: Xiao Changhua
Cantonese Opera - The Timeless Works of Guan Hanqing
Meeting the Enemies Alone, Saving a Prostitute, The Riverside Pavilion
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Yuan Chenye with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Li Xincao
New York Philharmonic - Music Director: Lorin Maazel
Conductor: Lorin Maazel, Zhang Xian
Soloists: Glenn Dicterow (violin), Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Wang Liang (oboe)
Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Soloists: Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
London Philharmonic Choir
Artistic Director/Conductor: Neville Creed
Soloist: Iain Farrington (piano/organ)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra - Music about China 2
Conductor: Yan Huichang
Trio Mediaval
Singers: Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Ostrem Ossum
Percussion/Jew's Harp: Birger Mistereggen
Andras Schiff Piano Recital
Joanna MacGregor Piano Recital
Piano Trio - Andras Schiff, Yuuko Shiokawa, Miklos Perenyi
WORLD MUSIC / JAZZ
Tomatito Sextet
Ornette Coleman
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time Control
Hiromi Uehara (piano, keyboards), David Fiuczynski (fretted and fretless guitar), Tony Grey (bass), Martin Valihora (drums)
Eddie Palmieri Afro-Caribbean Jazz Sextet
EXXONMOBIL VISION
Sheng It Up
Ng Cheuk-yin (composer/sheng/keyboard), Peter Fan (piano), Jason Lau (zheng), Lam Tin-wai (sanxian), Liang Chun-wai (bass guitar), Melchior Sarreal (drums)
Pius Cheung Marimba Recital
THEATRE
Fragments
Text by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Peter Brook
Assisted by Lilo Baur and Marie-Helene Estienne
Light design: Philippe Vialatte
Produced by C.I.C.T. / Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris and by William Wilkinson for Millbrook Productions and co-produced by Young Vic Theatre, London Actors: Jos Houben, Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni
National Theatre of Great Britain - Chatroom + Citizenship
Director: Anna Mackmin
Designer: Jonathan Fensom
Lighting Desidner: Mark Henderson
Music: Paddy Cunneen
Sound Designer: Christopher Shutt
Chatroom Video Director: Ben Taylor
The Master Builder
by Henrik Johan Ibsen
7 Directed by Lin Zhaohua
Performed by Pu Cunxin and Tao Hong
The Shape of Things
Titus Andronicus
Director: Tang Shu-wing
Translator: Rubert Chan
Danny Yung Experimental Theatre - Tears of Barren Hill
Director: Danny Yung
Guest Appearance: Shi Xiaomei (Nanjing)
Artistic Consultant: Xu Xinjie (Shanghai)
Artistic Adviser: Tian Mansha (Shanghai)
Performer: Gao Hongmei (Shanghai)
MUSIC THEATRE
American Repertory Theatre - Orpheus X
Music and Text: Rinde Eckert
Video: Denise Marika
Director: Robert Woodruff
MUSICAL
Hong Kong Repertory Theatre - Family Protection Unit (FPU)
Music Director / Composer / Lyricist: Chung Chi-wing
Playwright: Roy Szeto, Leung Ka-kit
Director: Roy Szeto
Leading Cast: Fung Wai-hang, Poon Chan-leung, Lam Siu-bo, Sun Wai-keung, Lau Shau-ching, Wong Wai-chi
DANCE
Pina Bausch Tanztheatre Wuppertal - Vollmond
Director and Choreographer: Pina Bausch
Set Designer: Peter Pabst
Costume Designer: Marion Cito
Stuttgart Ballet - Swan Lake
Choreography: John Cranko
Music: Piotr I. Tchaikovsky
Sets and Costumes: Jurgen Rose
Live Accompaniment: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Stuttgart Ballet - Onegin
Choreography: John Cranko
Music: Piotr I. Tchaikovsky
Arranged and Orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze
Sets and Costumes: Jurgen Rose
Live Accompaniment: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble - Hungarian Concerto
Artistic Director: Gabor Mihalyi
Music by: Gergely Agocs, Laszlo Kelemen
Orchestra Leader: Ferenc Radics, Istvan Pal
Music Coordinator : Laszlo Kelemen
Choreography: Rita Furik, Gerzson Peter Kovacs, Richard Kokeny, Gabor Mihalyi, Mihalyi Richtarcsik
Compagnie Marie Chouinard - Ode to Joy L.I.V.E. - Orpheus and Eurydice
Artistic Direction and Choreography: Marie Chouinard
Dancers All dancers of Compagnie Marie Chouinard
Music: Ode to Joy by Beethoven and original score by Louis Dufort
2009
OPERA
Latvian National Opera - Alcina
Music: George Frideric Handel
Director: Kristina Wuss
Conductor: Andris Veismanis with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Latvian National Opera
Latvian National Opera - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Libretto: Dimitri Shostakovich and Alexander Preis, based on the novel written by Nikolai Leskov (revised by Dmitry Cilikin and Andrejs ?agars)
Director: Andrejs ?agars
Conductor: Gintaras Rinkevi?ius
with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Latvian National Opera
CHINESE OPERA
Shanghai Yueju Opera Theatre
Beijing Opera Extravaganza
Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe - The Disinterested Governor Yu Chenglong
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Shen Yang Lieder Recital
Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Soloists: Matthias Goerne (baritone), Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Northern Sinfonia and Chorus
Conductor/Violin: Thomas Zehetmair
Soloists: Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Northern Sinfonia Chamber Concert
Soloist: Trey Lee (cello)
Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Sergio Tiempo
Conductor: Yip Wing-sie
Soloist: Sergio Tiempo (piano)
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass
Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman Organ Recital
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra - Music about China 3 - Guo Wenjing's World of Chinese Music
Conductor: Yan Huichang
Sergio Tiempo Piano Recital
Zehetmair Quartet
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Wang Jian plays Bach @ IFC55
WORLD MUSIC / JAZZ
Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet
Chick Corea and John McLaughlin - Five Peace Band
Chick Corea (piano), John McLaughlin (guitar), Kenny Garrett (saxophone), Christian McBride (bass), Brian Blade (drums)
Lisa Ono - A Celebration of 50 Years of Bossa Nova
EXXONMOBIL VISION
Teresa Suen Harp Recital
Primary Shapes - An Eternal Golden Braid
THEATRE
Pygmalion
Theatre Royal Bath Productions and the Old Vic present
A Peter Hall Company Production
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Peter Hall
Metamorphosis
A Vesturport and Lyric Hammersmith Production
Adapted and directed by David Farr and Gisli Orn Gardarsson
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Danny Yung Experimental Theatre - Book of Ghosts
The Wooster Group - Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
Directed by Elizabeth Le Compte
With Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos and Scott Shepherd
Black Swan
News from Nowhere - Tim Crouch
England, An Oak Tree, My Arm
Beijing Paper Tiger - Cool
Murder in San Jose
DANCE
The National Ballet of China - The Peony Pavilion
Producer: Zhao Ruheng
Adaptation and Director: Li Liuyi
Composer and Arranger: Guo Wenjing
Choreographer: Fei Bo Costume
Designer: Emi Wada Stage
Designer: Michael Simon
Live Accompaniment: National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Zhang Yi
English National Ballet - Alice in Wonderland
Story by Lewis Carroll
Choreographer: Derek Deane
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arrangement and additional music: Carl Davis
Design: Sue Blane
Illusions: Paul Kieve
Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche - In-I
Directed and performed by Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche
Visual Design: Anish Kapoor
Music: Philip Sheppard
City Contemporary Dance Company - The City of K
Choreography: Helen Lai
Company Ea Sola - The White Body
Choreographer: Ea Sola
Music: Nguyen Xuan Son
Asia Pacific Dance Platform
Hong Kong Ballet - All Bach
Choreography: William Forsythe, George Balanchine, Stanton Welch and Wang Xinpeng
DANCE THEATRE
Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche - In-I
Directed and performed by Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche
Visual Design: Anish Kapoor Music: Philip Sheppard
FAMILY CHOICE
Karbido - The Table
Circo Aereo - Un cirque plus juste
2010
OPERA
The Mariinsky Opera – Britten: The Turn of the Screw
CHINESE OPERA
Cantonese Opera Treasures
Suzhou Kunqu Opera Company of Jiangsu
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Rene Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
King’s Harmonica Quintet
Mark Latimer Piano Recital
Leon McCawley Piano Recital
Meta4 String Quartet
Mikhail Rudy Piano Recital
The Pianist
Li Chuanyun Solo Violin Recital
Naamyam – Songs of Love and Lament
Simone Osborne Lieder Recital
Airs and Fancies: A Musicall Banquet - Andreas Scholl and Edin Karamazov
WORLD MUSIC / JAZZ
The Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra - The Amadeus Project
Ojos de Brujo
Cafe de los Maestros
Sing the Truth: Nina Simone Remembered
Sa Dingding
David Murray – Black Saint Quartet
EXXONMOBIL VISION
Wong Chi-yan Piano Recital
Samson Young – The Third Pixel
THEATRE
W!LD RICE – Animal Farm
The Tempest
On the Waterfront
The Liaisons
Black Swan
The Truth About Lying
Five Acts of Life – Lao She’s Short Stories
Danny Yung Experimental Theatre - Flee by Night
chelfitsch Theatre Company – Five Days in March
Red Leap Theatre – The Arrivals
DANCE
The Mariinsky Ballet – Don Quixote
Dutch National Ballet
Asia Pacific Dance Platform
FAMILY CHOICE
The Mariinsky Ballet – Don Quixote
Red Leap Theatre – The Arrivals
2011
OPERA
Leipzig Opera - Tristan und Isolde
CHINESE OPERA
Cantonese Opera - The Artistry of Fong Yim-fun
Beijing Opera - The Painted Faces
MUSIC
Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
St Thomas Boys Choir (Thomanerchor)
Halle Orchestra
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra - Music About China V
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra - De Waart conducts Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony
Hong Kong Sinfonietta - Great Violin Concertos: Ray Chen Plays Tchaikovsky
Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki Harpsichord Recital
Cameron Carpenter Organ Recital
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Angelika Kirchschlager with the Basel Chamber Orchestra
Cecilia Bartoli
Cyprien Katsaris Piano Recital
Lost Tango - Ute Lemper and the Piazzolla Sextet
Marianne Faithfull
Elvis Costello
CREDIT SUISSE EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES
Nicolas Altstaedt Cello Recital
Alexei Ogrintchouk Oboe Recital
Elias String Quartet
MUSIC NOMADS
Songs from the Grasslands - Hanggai + Mamer & IZ
Requiem for Flowers - Chet Lam x Shin Wong
A.S. The Percussionist - Singing Hands - Arai Soichiro
MUSIC THEATRE
Berliner Ensemble - The Threepenny Opera
108 Heroes, Tales from The Water Margin
EXXONMOBIL VISION
Wong Wai-yin Piano Recital
Chan Chi-chun and Chan Chi-yuk Dizi Recital
NEW STAGE SERIES
Piccadilly Revisited
Jiao Qing
Recycling Times
Tree Rhapsody
THEATRE
Cheek by Jowl – Macbeth
An Ordinary Man
Belarus Free Theatre - Being Harold Pinter and A Flower for Pina Bausch
Murder In San Jose
DANCE
New York City Ballet
Birmingham Royal Ballet - Hobson's Choice
TanztheaterWuppertal Pina Bausch - Carnations
Beijing Dance Theatre - The Golden Lotus
Asia Pacific Dance Platform
MOMIX Dance Theatre – MOMIX reMIX
SPECIAL EVENT
Power Plant
2012
OPERA
Bavarian State Opera - Cosi Fan Tutte
CHINESE OPERA
Cantonese Opera - The Golden Age of Cantonese Opera
Beijing Opera - A Tribute to Laosheng - Master Ma Lianliang
MUSIC
Myung-whun Chung and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra – Music About China VI
L’ Arpeggiata
Hong Kong Sinfonietta - La Valse Remembered
Kun Woo Paik Plays Ravel
Karita Mattila in Recital
The Sixteen-Harry Christophers
Dominante
Danjulo Ishizaka Cello Recital
Chau Lok-ping and Chau Lok-ting Piano Duo Recital
Nigel Kennedy Plays Bach/ Fats Waller
Dr John and The Lower 911
Charlie Haden Quartet West
CREDIT SUISSE EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES
Martin Stadtfeld Piano Recital
Louis Siu and Friends Percussion Recital
Pavel Haas Quartet
MUSIC NOMADS
China Folk Rock
Tinariwen
MUSIC THEATRE
Of Mountains and Seas
Theatre des Bouffes du Nord -A Magic Flute
NEW STAGE SERIES
JuneLovers
Journeyto Home
THEATRE
Rose Theatre - The Importance of Being Earnest
The Wild Boar
Bristol Old Vic- Faith Healer
Show Flat
4.48 Psychosis
Richard III
The Bee
The Truth About Lying (Re-run)
TitusAndronicus (2012)
Sans Objetby Aurelien Bory
DANCE
The Hamburg Ballet - John Neumeier
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – TeZukA
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo - Le Songe
**Lyon Opera Ballet
Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series
Asia Pacific Dance Platform
The Geisha of Gion
SPECIAL EVENT/ FAMILY CHOICE
World of WearableArt