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Past Programmes - 1998-2002

1998

Music

Los Angeles Opera
Strauss: Salome
Producer: Sir Peter Hall
Conductor: Steven Sloane

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Vladimir Fedoseyev
Soloists: Hélène Grimaud (piano), Noëmi Nadelmann (soprano)

European Union Chamber Orchestra
Director: Lavard Skou Larsen
Soloists: Qian Zhou (violin), Hong-mei Xiao (viola)

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Mark Ermler
Soloist: Chee-yun Kim (violin)

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Tsang
Soloist: Ronald Chin (percussion)

Ensemble Clément Janequin

Medici String Quartet

Duo Tai & Groethuysen

Chava Alberstein

Chaurasia & Hussain

Mongolian Song & Dance Troupe

Lu Meng-zheng - A Poor Scholar

Exxon Vision
Every Single Other Territory (My Own Idiosyncrasy Garden)
Sonic Confluences
Cutie Sweetie Kawaii--A Gig For Go Go Girls & Bye Bye Boys
Happy Days--Eason Chan in Concert

 

Musical

Thalia Theater Hamburg
Tom Waits: The Black Rider
Director: Robert Wilson
Producers: Jurgen Filmm, Ludwig von Otting

 

Recital

Vocal: Barbara Hendricks (accompanied by Shanghai Broadcast Symphony Orchestra/Christian Benda)

 

Jazz

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra/Wynton Marsalis

Getaway

 

Music Theatre

Experimentum Mundi

 

Dance

Compañía Nacional de Danza

Daksha Sheth Dance Company

Workshop: Wim Vandekeybus Searching for a Body - Audition for Workshop

 

Dance Theatre

Sasha Waltz & Guests

The Good Woman of Szechwan

 

Theatre

The Royal National Theatre

Chinese National Beijing - Opera Theater

Theatre Ensemble

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre

The Dresser

 

Film/Music

Metropolis

 

Entertainment

Kageboushi Theatrical Company

Umbilical Brothers

 

Exhibition

New Voices--Contemporary Art from Hong Kong, Taipei and Shanghai

EuroComics 98

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1999

Music

Kirov Opera of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Kirov Opera of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Conductor: Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda
Soloists: Marina Shaguch (soprano), Marianna Tarassova, Larissa Diadkova (mezzo-soprano), Yuri Marusin (tenor), Yevgeny Nikitin (bass)

Chamber Operas
Guo Wenjing: Night Banquet
Conductor: Brad Cohen
Producer/Director: Lo King-man
Brian Chatpo Koo: The Tomb of Three Kings
Conductor: Brian Chatpo Koo
Producer/Director: Lo King-man

Cantonese Opera-An All-Star Night

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Hugh Wolff
Soloist: Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello)

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: David Atherton
Soloist: Han-na Chang (cello)

KREMERata BALTICA
Conductor: Gidon Kremer
Soloists: Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko (violins)

Juilliard String Quartet

The English Concert
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock

Jinling Chinese Music Ensemble
Conductor: Lin Keren

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
Conductor: Yan Huichang
Soloists: Cho-liang Ling (violin), Huang Guifang (sanxian)

Peter Yarrow

Exxon Vision
New Sounds from Erhu & Pipa
A Lover's Discourse by Calvin Poon
The Atlas

Hong Kong Composers' Workshop

 

Recital

Mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina (accompanied by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra/Eugene Sirotkine)

 

Jazz

¡Cubanismo!

The Paul Motian Trio

 

Music Theatre

Rave

China National Youth Theatre - The Threepenny Opera

 

Dance

Hamburg Ballet-Bernstein Dances & A Midsummer Night's Dream
Choreographer: John Neumeier

NEUER TANZ-XYZ
Choreographer: VA Wolfl

Woyzeck
Choreographer: Josef Nadj

Hong Kong Dance Company - The Dragon's Trail

Boombastic Verses

 

Theatre

Lear
Director: Ong Keng Sen

Compagnie Deschamps et Deschamps - Les Precieuses Ridicules
Directors: Jerome Deschamps and Macha Makeieff

Steven Berkoff - Shakespeare's Viillains

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre-Forever & Ever

No Man's Land - Millennium Autopsy

Chung Ying Theatre Company - The Merchant of China

 

Entertainment

Rishile Gumboot Dancers

Compagnie Montalvo - Hervieu - Paradis

 

Exhibition

The Projects of Christo and Jeanne - Claude

Ralph Koltai Retrospective - A Stage Design Exhibition

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2000

Music

The Opera of the Prague National Theatre
LeosJanácek: Jenufa
Antonin Dvorák: Rusalka
Conductor: Jiri Belohl´vek
Jan Chalupecký

The Orchestra & Chorus of The Prague National Theatre
Conductor: Bohumil Kulinský

Chamber Opera - The Shopkeeper's Daughter
Composer: So Ting-cheong
Director/Librettist: Lon King-man
Lyricist: Canny Leung
Conductor: Peter Burwik

Cantonese Opera - Three Generals Trapped at Mount Xiao

The China National Beijing-Opera Theatre

China National Sympohny Orchestra
Conductor: Chen Zuohuang
Soloist: Eva Urbanová (soprano), Mischa Maisky (cello), John Williams (guitar)

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Philippe Auguin
Soloists: Lidia Baich (violin)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Principal Conductor: Joseph Swensen
Soloist: Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

Collegium Vocale Gent
Artistic Director: Philippe Herreweghe

Arditti Quartet

Guher & Suher Pekinel, duo pianists

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
International Competition for Chinese Orchestral Composition 2000 - Finals Concert
Music Director & Conductor: Yan Huichang
Guest Conductor: Chan Tscheng-hsiung

Xinjiang Mukamu Art Ensemble - Mukamu Twelve

Choi Sown-le Plays Chinese Piano Works

Pipa Images

Exxon Vision
King's Harmonica Quintet
Alone for a Second
Horror, Horror, Horror

 

Recital

John Williams Guitar Recital

Mischa Maisky Plays Bach

 

Jazz

An Evening with the Joshua Redman Band

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate

 

Dance Theatre

Les Ballets C. de la B./Ensemble Explorations - Iets op Bach
Director: Alain Patel
Music Direction: Roel Dieltiens

 

Dance

Birmingham Royal Ballet - Edward II
Choreographer: David Bintley

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - Burning the Juniper Branches
Founder/Artistic Director/Choreographer: Lin Hwai-min

Ea Sola - Voilà Voilà

City Contemporary Dance Company - Plaza X

 

Music Theatre

Walking With Wings

Shockheaded Peter

 

Theatre

The Acco Theatre Center - The Anthology

Cheung Tat Ming on Stage Solo - Deliberately Inflammatory

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre - The Naked Eyes

 

Mime Theatre

Theatre DEREVO - ONCE...

 

Spectacle

La Cuadra de Sevilla - Carmen

 

Entertainment

Les Tambours de Brazza

 

Exhibition

The Art of Liao Bingxiong

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2001

Music

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

María de Buenos Aires
Production: I Fiamminghi

Chinese Opera Extravaganza

Cantonese Opera-Towering Legends of The Three Kingdoms

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with the London Symphony Chorus
Principal Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen
Soloists: Alexandra Coku (Soprano), Birgit Remmert (Alto), Håkan Hagegård (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 Orchestra
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 Club
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

 

Jazz

McCoy Tyner Trio

 

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???

 

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

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2002

Opera

The Bolshoi Theatre - Moussorgsky's Boris Godunov

The Bolshoi Theatre - Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges

Chamber Opera - Wenji
A co-production of the Asia Society and Hong Kong Arts Festival in association with New England Foundation for the Arts
Composer/Conductor: Lam Bun Ching
Playwright: Xu Ying
Director: Rinde Eckertv

The China National Beijing-opera Theater
The General and the Prime Minister Reconciled
At the Mouth of River Jiujiang
The Genrals of the Yang Family

Cantonese Opera - The Virtuosity of Chan Ho- kau
Love in a Time of Bloodshed
The Predicament of Zhu Bian's Homecoming
Of Love and Enmity
Conspiracy behind the Marriage of Princess Yin Ping

 

Music

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Music Director: Herbert Blomstedt
Soloist: Baiba Skride

NHK Symphony Orchestra
Music Director: Charles Dutoit
Soloists: Momo Kodama (piano), Kyoko Takezawa (violin)

Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor: Mark Ermler

Yo-Yo Ma with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
The Black Earth and the Willow

Shanghai Chinese Ensemble
Query in Autumn

Tokyo String Quartet

Misia

Master Musicians of Jajouka

 

Jazz

Mingus Big Band

Don Byron Quintet

 

ExxonMobil Vision

Jennifer Chou Organ Recital

Kaffee Baroque
To Touch the Untouchable Sky directed by Hui Shu Ning

 

Music Theatre

Moscow Taganka Theatre - Marat and Marquis de Sade
Directed by Yuri Lyubimov

 

Theatre

Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden - Don Juan
Directed & Choreographed by Mats Ek

Station House Opera - Roadmetal Sweetbread

Stones in His Pockets
Written by Marie Jones
Directed by Ian EcElhinney

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Black Box Theatre presents
A Matter of 4 X 6

Moonshine
Artistic Direction: Claire Heggen
Directors/Devisors/Actors: Jim Chim, Olivia Yan

Theatre du Pif presents La Casa de�K
Devised by Sean Curran and Bonni Chan
Directed by Bonni Chan

No Man's Land - Between Life and Death
Directed by Tang Shu-wing

 

Dance

National Ballet of China - Raise the Red Lantern, the Ballet
Librettist/Director/Artistic Director: Zhang Yimou

Tango por Dos - Una Noche de Tango

Batsheva Dance Company, Israel
Deca Dance
Naharin's Virus
By Ohad Naharin

Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia - Samritechak

 

Dance Theatre

Play Boys -A Dance by Daniel Yeung

 

Entertainment

Le Cercle Invisible
Created and performed by Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierrée

 

Exhibition

Chinese Archaic Bronzes

Fluxus in Germany 1962-1994

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