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Happy Birthday to Maestro Long Yu
A very happy birthday to our dear friend Maestro Long Yu Photograph by Pan Shiyi 潘石屹 Long Yu, the distinguished Chinese conductor with an extensive international reputation, is the Music Director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director & Chief Conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. He is [...]
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NT Live Catalogue is Open and Streaming World-Class Theatre
Right now the National Theatre is closed and facing a devastating impact from Coronavirus. The doors may be closed, but the NT Live catalogue is now open and streaming world-class theatre to you and families around the world, every week, for free. We know that this is a difficult time for many of us, but if [...]
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Long Yu Conducts Richard Strauss & Beethoven
An Ode to Life: Long Yu Conducts Richard Strauss and Beethoven - Maestro Long Yu. First return with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra tonight! Conductor: Long YuSoprano: Zhang LipingShanghai Symphony OrchestraProgramme:Grieg: “Solveig's Song” Richard Strauss:Four Last Songs, Op. 150 (Soprano: Zhang Liping)Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 “Pastorale”
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Barenboim leads Wiener Philharmoniker in Mahler’s 7th Symphony
Daniel Barenboim leads the Vienna Philharmonic in its first performance at the Wiener Philharmoniker following the COVID-19 lockdown. The fifth evening of the Mahler Festival features Daniel Barenboim leading the Vienna Philharmonic in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, plus the tender yet powerful Kindertotenlieder. Mezzo-soprano Okka von der Damerau will be performing the solo.The Vienna Philharmonic and Daniel BarenboimAccording to conductor Daniel Barenboim, [...]
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The Wiener Staatsoper streaming A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Lawrence Zazzo
Lawrence Zazzo as Oberon - The Wiener Staatsoper is closed, but continues to stream daily online. Last night was A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The KT Wong Foundation initiated a visit to Cape Town by American counter-tenor Lawrence Zazzo in 2019. William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the inspiration for works in all genres. Amongst [...]
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Vienna State Opera is Streaming Parsifal
Parsifal, 2013 - Streaming on 14 April, 12:00 to 16 April, 12:00. Michael Schulz, Director · Alexander Polzin, Stage and Costume designerWith Milcho Borovinov, Wolfgang Koch, Johan Botha, Stephen Milling and Michaela Schuster. From 14 to 16 April, the Salzburg Easter Festival will be showing free videos of the opera productions from the era of [...]
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KT Wong Foundation and Beijing Music Festival presented the “Masterclass: In conversation with Robert Carsen”
On 13th October 2016 the KT Wong Foundation introduced a new in depth interview series called Masterclass: In Conversation at the 19th Beijing Music Festival. Robert Carsen, one of the world’s leading opera directors opened the inaugural session coinciding with the China premiere performance of his seminal production of Benjamin Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream from the Aix Festival. Respected journalist and […]
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Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2020
Summer in Cape Town has become the centre of the art world, as multitudes of artists, gallerists, curators and collectors will set up for events of lasting cultural significance. For the art-loving public, the combined experience will blast open stupendous new views on the visual arts. Investec Cape Town Art Fair showcases a diversity of work [...]
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Rolex International Mentor & Protégé Arts Weekend – Cape Town
Rolex International Mentor & Protégé Arts Weekend ~ a first for Africa since its 20 year old inception. Brilliant mentorship programmes for dancers, musicians, writers, architects, cinematographers. More than 200 artists and arts luminaries gathered at the Baxter Theatre. The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative seeks out gifted young artists from all over the [...]
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Coronavirus: Sending all our friends and wonderful colleagues all our thoughts and support.
Sending Maestro Long Yu, and all our friends and wonderful colleagues in the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra and Beijing Music Festival all our thoughts and support. The KT Wong Foundation looks forward to happier times when we can reunite again in new creative projects.
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Justine Mahoney opens Mage, her new body of work at Southern Guild
Four years after her acclaimed 2016 solo Tainted, Justine Mahoney opens Mage, her new body of work delving into the tangled web of transformation from adolescence to adulthood. Her second solo exhibition with Southern Guild, this new group of nine bronze sculptures and collages coincides with the 2020 Investec Cape Town Art Fair and Cape Town Art [...]
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Semele Re-Imagined – a two part radio documentary on the BBC World Service “In the Studio”
Just over a decade ago, Handel’s Semele became one of the the first ever baroque operas to be performed in China in a production designed and directed by Zhang Huan and produced by Lady Linda Wong Davies in partnership with Theatre de la Monnaie Brussels. Ten years later Semele returns in a reimagined production directed [...]
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THE JUNGLE Wins Big at the 2020 Broadway World Awards San Francisco
Winner, Best Direction Of A Play, Stephen Daldry And Justin Martin, Broadway World Awards San Francisco 2020 Winner, Best Featured Actor In A Play, John Pfumojena, Broadway World Awards San Francisco, 2020 Winner, Best Featured Actress In A Play, Nahel Tzegai, Broadway World Awards San Francisco, 2020 Winner, Best Local Play, The Jungle, Broadway World [...]
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2020 Youth Music Culture Guangdong
To put the philosophies of YMCG into practice, a select group of young musicians under the age of 35 will join together to form the inaugural YMCG Symphony Orchestra. An ensemble especially established for the project, it promises to be filled with vitality, befitting the energy of Guangdong, at the forefront of China’s reform and [...]
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SEMELE Re-Imagined: Opera comes to the Shanghai International Arts Festival
Opera enthusiasts in China have the chance to catch a reimagined production of George Frideric Handel's baroque opera Semele at the Shanghai International Arts Festival this week. The two sold-out shows on Friday and Saturday will be performed by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall as part of the orchestra's 140th [...]
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SEMELE Re-Imagined: Behind the Scenes
Preparations and rehearsals are in full swing for KT Wong Foundation's ground-breaking, reimagined production of Semele at the Shanghai International Arts Festival 2019. Lady Linda Wong Davies can be seen with South African artists Wendy Dixon and Caitlin Weather, on a KT Wong Foundation Art Residency in Shanghai -- discussing the glass mirror works for [...]
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Frieze London 2019
Frieze London, Regent’s Park, 3–6 October 2019 Frieze Sculpture will also be on display in the English Gardens, from 3 July to 6 October 2019, featuring more 23 international artists. Frieze London returns to Regent’s Park from 3-6 October to present the best of international contemporary art by emerging and established artists, alongside a dynamic programme of newly [...]
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Agrippina at the Royal Opera House
Agrippina 23 September—11 October 2019 Royal Opera House Joyce DiDonato as the ultimate political operator, Agrippina, heads a specialist cast in Handel’s early operatic success. Agrippina is the ultimate political operator – outrageous and blatant in her pursuit of power. In the title role, Joyce DiDonato heads a specialist cast in Handel’s early operatic success, a [...]
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Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Long Yu make their First Appearance at the BBC Proms
Royal Albert Hall - Prom 57: Mozart, Rachmaninov & Qigang Chen. (Broadcast on BBC Four on Friday 6 September) The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Long Yu make their first appearance at the Proms. They are joined by Eric Lu, winner of the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition, for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with [...]
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Robert Carsen’s Rinaldo at Glyndebourne
Rinaldo - Robert Carsen’s witty and irreverent production comes roaring back to the stage with a brand new cast. A magical battle of wits and wills ensues between Rinaldo’s Crusaders and the Saracen army, as the fate not just of two lovers but two nations hangs in the balance. Carsen’s exuberant schoolroom staging is well on [...]
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