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The KT Wong Foundation supports Deutsche Grammophon’s unique 120th Anniversary Concert
The KT Wong Foundation supports Deutsche Grammophon’s unique 120th Anniversary Concert, a spectacular event to feature maestro Long Yu conducting the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and with leading international vocalists and DG pianist Daniil Trifonov 10th October: The Forbidden City Maestro Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchetra will mark Deutsche Grammophon’s live 120th-anniversary festivities on the 10 [...]
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Roubi L’Roubi | Saatchi Gallery | Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School
Presenting three significant artists to a new audience. The exhibition has a common theme – the tree – which each uses independently – but which are linked via natural and cultural associations. It thrills me to be able to share the works. The sculpture, Meditation Tree by El-Salahi, forms a physical work that brings in [...]
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London
1-54 London returns for its sixth edition at Somerset House between the 4-7 October 2018. The fair will welcome 43 leading galleries from countries across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America, presenting over 130 artists from Africa and its diaspora. This edition will be accompanied by a compelling series of Special Projects and [...]
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Frieze London 4–7 October 2018
The 16th edition of Frieze London takes place from 5–7 October, with two Preview Days on Wednesday 3 October and Thursday 4 October Announcing eight pioneering artists featuring in new Social Work section; nine interactive and performance-based works for Live; and a new Emerging Artist Prize in collaboration with Camden Arts Centre Frieze London 2018 [...]
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PAD London 1-7 October 2018
Set in the vibrant heart of Mayfair, PAD is London’s leading fair for 20th Century art, design and decorative arts. Inspiring a unique spirit of collecting, PAD epitomises how modern art, photography, design, decorative and tribal arts interact to reveal astonishing combinations and create the most individual and staggering interiors. Prominent international galleries from major [...]
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The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is Celebrating 10 Years with Long Yu as Music Director
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is celebrating ten years with Long Yu as music director. The season opened with an outstanding performance of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with baritone and artist-in-residence Thomas Bauer. Listen to to a live recording here: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/K7CA3ZID5E-R5QS0Eod69A
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The Dead City – Komische Oper Berlin
Good friend of the KT Wong Foundation, Canadian star director Robert Carsen will stage his début production at the Komische Oper Berlin with a musical psycho-thriller about the difficulty of letting go and the necessity of doing so. Playing the main characters are the American Sara Jakubiak, whose »impressively velvet-soft soprano voice« has been admired [...]
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Deutsche Grammophon – The World’s Oldest And Most Renowned Record Label – Launches DG120
Deutsche Grammophon (DG), the world's oldest and most renowned classical music label, will celebrate its 120th anniversary this year with an unprecedented, wide-ranging and ambitious international program of activities to celebrate the Yellow Label's illustrious past, dynamic present and prosperous future. Throughout its unique history, Deutsche Grammophon has been a committed and long-term investor in [...]
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John Akomfrah Presents Mimesis: African Soldier
A new multi-screen installation by artist John Akomfrah remembers the millions of African and colonial soldiers, labourers and carriers who served in the First World War. Projected onto three screens, the artwork combines newly created film, shot by Akomfrah in locations around the world, a powerful sound score and historic footage that speak to the [...]
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Thomas Heatherwick’s temple to contemporary art in Cape Town
Looming over Cape Town's V&A Waterfront - a mixed-use development bordering the Atlantic and interwoven with colonial structures and contemporary volumes in glass and steal - is a concrete silo. Built in 1912, it was where grain would be gathered, graded and eventually disseminated. This was the tallest building in sub-Saharan Africa for half a [...]
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High Wire Act: How a one-woman cultural exchange is connecting Europe and China
With it's eclectic programme of opera, art, architecture and design, the London-based KT Wong Foundation has been bridging the creative landscapes of Britain and China since 2007, and established itself as a cultural force. According to its founder, Lady Linda Wong Davies, the initial objective was simple. 'I just wanted to show that China's culture is [...]
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Lady Linda Wong Davies Shares a Glimpse of Her Personal Collection with House & Garden South Africa
Lady Linda Wong Davies, founder and chairman of the KT Wong Foundation, is a champion of the arts, both local and international, and shares a glimpse of her personal collection at her home in Cape Town.
Read moreThe Beggar’s Opera, directed by Robert Carsen will open at the Edinburgh International Festival
The Beggar’s Opera, directed by Robert Carsen will open at the Edinburgh International Festival on August 16th 2018, and follows a highly successful partnership in 2017 between Scottish Opera and the KT Wong Foundation to present Mark Anthony Turnage’s Opera Greek. The KT Wong Foundation’s ongoing partnership with the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord is [...]
Read moreTheatre des Bouffes du Nord to support a new production of Beggar’s Opera
Director Robert Carsen has worked in many of the world’s most prestigious opera houses and theatres. The production’s original music direction is by William Christie, a pioneering figure in early music and founder of virtuosic Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants. With an eminent international cast of actor-singers, plus period musicians from Les Arts Florissants, this [...]
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George Benjamin’s Written on Skin will be performed at the Beijing Music Festival and at the Shanghai Symphony Hall
This year’s Beijing Music Festival (BMF) is taking the theme “East meets West”. It will be the first edition under new artistic director Shuang Zo, after festival founder and acclaimed conductor Long Yu announced this week that he is stepping down. “I’m proud to announce that I’m stepping down as artistic director of BMF after [...]
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The Beggar’s Opera at the Edinburgh Festival: updated for the Brexit era
It’s almost a relief to hear that when The Beggar’s Opera comes to the Edinburgh International Festival in August, it won’t be set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a convict ship or in any of the other unexpected locations to which this irrepressible work has been taken over the years. Instead John Gay’s “Newgate Pastoral”, which [...]
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BBC World News is broadcasting artist William Kentridge’s most ambitious project to date ‘The Head and the Load.’
BBC World News is broadcasting artist William Kentridge's most ambitious project to date combining music, dance, film projections, mechanised sculptures and shadow play to create an imaginative landscape on an epic scale. The BBC film explores the creation of 'The Head and the Load' which will bring to life the untold story of the hundreds [...]
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Africa Utopia celebrates the arts and culture of one of the world’s most dynamic and fast-changing continents.
In 2012, Southbank Centre launched Africa Utopia, a festival dedicated to bringing art and ideas from Africa and the African diaspora to audiences in the UK. We ask what the West can learn from this rapidly changing continent. Championed by Africa Utopia artistic collaborator, Senegalese singer and human rights advocate Baaba Maal, the festival’s first [...]
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The KT Wong Foundation is exclusive co-production partner of a new production of Beggar’s Opera
The KT Wong Foundation has agreed with the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord to support a new production of Beggar's Opera, directed by Robert Carsen in a new updated version in English by Ian Burton and Robert Carsen. Music direction is by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants. This opera is regarded as the original [...]
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