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The Edinburgh International Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival (3-27 August) 2018 will open with a free outdoor digital performance celebrating Scotland’s Year of Young People and reflecting on the centenary of the end of World War I. The opera programme features three staged productions across ten performances at the Festival Theatre and King’s Theatre, and two concert performances at […]
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DG Signs Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon has just announced an exclusive contract with the high-profile Chinese conductor Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. In recent years China has experienced a massively expanding audience for classical music, while a number of its leading young soloists have achieved immense international prominence, not least the pianists Lang Lang, Yundi Li and [...]
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Robert Carsen’s Falstaff is filled with Wit, Humour and Sheer Joie de Vivre
Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera tells the tale of a portly knight with an irrepressible appetite for life, love and laughter. Falstaff crowned a career that spanned more than fifty years. Arrigo Boito – with whom Verdi also collaborated on Otello and the revisions for Simon Boccanegra – created a sparkling libretto based on Shakespeare’s The [...]
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George Benjamin Conducts Lessons in Love and Violence
George Benjamin conducts the world premiere of his darkly dramatic new opera – a major event in contemporary music from the creators of Written on Skin, with an internationally renowned cast. Lessons in Love and Violence is the latest collaboration between composer George Benjamin and playwright Martin Crimp. Their previous work includes the large-scale opera [...]
Read moreDaniel Kramer #50YearsofOpera ǀ English National Opera
We are very excited that 2018 marks 50 years of our company performing in residence at the London Coliseum. On 21 August 1968 Sadler’s Wells Opera, which would become English National Opera six years later, performed Don Giovanni in our new home, the largest theatre in the West End. 50 years later, we are still committed to [...]
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Long Yu Returns to Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Tonight
Long Yu, the distinguished Chinese conductor with an extensive international reputation, is the Music Director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Principal Guest Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as holding the positions of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra. Long is the Founder and Artistic Director [...]
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Evora Africa has been brought to Portugal for the first time
Evora Africa has been brought to Portugal for the first time. Taking place in the historic Alentejan town of Évora, the festival will uncover the many faces of a contemporary Africa, the continent of the future, where sacred rituals of the past merge with urban art of a vibrant, modern and changing world. Hosted at [...]
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THE JUNGLE transfers to the West End this Summer
In the worst places, you meet the best people. Discover a new play where worlds collide. Following a sold-out run at the Young Vic, the universally acclaimed production of Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s THE JUNGLE transfers to the West End this summer. This is the place where people suffered and dreamed. Meet the hopeful, [...]
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Evora Africa Festival
From the 25 May until 25 August 2018, the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval will present Evora Africa festival, a multicoloured and extravagant celebration of African heritage through a diverse programme of exhibitions, concerts, performances, conferences, griots and DJs, in the historic city of Évora in Portugal. With the opening on the 25 May [...]
Read moreBenedict Cumberbatch’s Patrick Melrose will launch on Sky Atlantic on Sunday 13th May
Even as a heroin addict, friend of the KT Wong Foundation, Benedict Cumberbatch is riveting. Through much of the pilot, the title character remains what he was bred to be: an English gentleman. He just happens to be an English gentleman with an extraordinarily nasty smack habit. Cumberbatch is his usual convincing self as the […]
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The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay, Considered the First Musical in the History of Music
Swarming with highwaymen, thieves, jailors, pimps and prostitutes, John Gay’s savagely satirical and wildly entertaining ‘ballad opera’ invites you into a world of greed, crime, poverty, inequality – and outrageous comedy. Where politicians and officials are just as corrupt as the lowlife below them. And where, if you want to get ahead, all you can [...]
Read moreOpening Night of The Beggars Opera at Theatre Bouffe du Nord, Paris
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. The KT Wong Foundation is exclusive co-production partner for [...]
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Paloma So wins at the 8th Novosibirsk International Competition for Young Violinists.
After being the youngest second prize winner at the 13th Wieniawski – Lipinski Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin , 10 year old Canadian – Chinese young violinist Paloma So has also won one of the first prizes of the junior group of the 8th Novosibirsk International Competition for Young Violinists.
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La Traviata – Daniel Kramer’s Debut Production as ENO Artistic Director
La traviata tells the story of the tragic love between the courtesan Violetta and the romantic Alfredo Germont. Played out against the hypocrisy of upper-class fashionable society, Alfredo and Violetta’s love threatens to shame his family. When his father directly appeals to Violetta to relinquish her one chance of happiness, Violetta submits and her act […]
Read moreGood Morning Britain with the fantastic Chinese Farmers Choir
https://youtu.be/Q04z-LVwnNI A lovely morning last week at Good Morning Britain with the fantastic Chinese Farmers Choir. Thank you to Piers Morgan Susanna Reid at Good Morning Britain
Read moreGood Morning Britain with the fantastic Chinese Farmers Choir
https://youtu.be/HWVI9y142rE A lovely morning last week at Good Morning Britain with the fantastic Chinese Farmers Choir. Thank you to Piers Morgan Susanna Reid at Good Morning Britain
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https://youtu.be/Efg3Z2pJsqY The Philharmonia and conductor Long Yu’s Chinese New Year Celebration concert returns to mark the Year of the Dog. This year we welcome a choir from a small village in China’s Yunnan Province to sing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and a selection of Chinese folk songs. The Xiaoshuijing Farmers’ Choir was formed in the 1930s [...]
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CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION – Royal Festival Hall, London
Last night's gala evening of music and song the Xiaoshuijing Farmers’ Choir, from a small village in China’s Yunnan province, sang Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and a selection of Chinese folk songs with the Philharmonia. 13-year-old pianist Serena Wang is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto. As you may know, through the KT Wong Foundation, [...]
Read moreCGTN UK Miao Choir
https://youtu.be/lsEAyM0p1II CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Thursday 1 Mar 2018, 7.30pmRoyal Festival Hall, London Long Yu conductor Serena Wang piano Xiaoshuijing Farmers' Choir LI Spring Festival Overture MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1 --interval-- TRADITIONAL Four Yunnan folk songs BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy The Philharmonia and conductor Long Yu’s Chinese New Year Celebration concert returns to mark the [...]
Read moreChinese New Year Celebration 2018
https://youtu.be/eQv_MpAHYPA A Gala Concert to celebrate THE CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE DOG WITH THE PHILHARMONIA THURSDAY 1 MARCH 2018 As you know, through my Foundation, I have been working hard over the last ten years to promote the importance of our ties with China. These days it seems more relevant than ever as we [...]
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