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Hong Kong Arts Festival has been held annually since 1973. The 2020 edition is due to feature more than 120 performances by nearly 1,800 local and international artists. Read interviews and profiles of some of the leading performers, event previews and reviews.
The 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival will open with Ballet Nacional de España’s La Bella Otero, a retelling of 19th-century Spanish artist Carolina Otero’s life story. Photo: HKAF
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What to expect at Hong Kong Arts Festival 2026, from Mozart to Caravaggio

Festival highlights include a mixed-reality Ryuichi Sakamoto show, a concert led by John Eliot Gardiner and a ballet starring Roberto Bolle.

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Opinion | Hong Kong Arts Development Awards too provincial and inward-looking

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Review | Visually stunning Bizet’s Carmen in Hong Kong recreates original staging

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Review | Rudolf Nureyev gala tribute in Hong Kong full of high points

Mariinsky Ballet’s Maria Khoreva shows why she is making waves, hometown hero Lam Chun-wing earns acclaim in tribute to a legend of dance.

Maria Khoreva and Jacopo Tissi in the Act III pas de deux from La Bayadère, part of Nureyev & Friends – A Ballet Gala Tribute, a programme of the 53rd Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: Tony Luk, courtesy of the Hong Kong Arts Festival
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Beethoven meets space battles in ‘first manga opera’, coming to Hong Kong

Conductor Laurence Equilbey and her Insula Orchestra will perform Beethoven Wars: A Battle for Peace at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March.

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Review | Refined Mozart, inspired Bach from Andras Schiff and his ensemble

Schiff and the Cappella Andrea Barca’s playing of Mozart exuded grace and refinement, and they were on point in Bach’s keyboard concertos.

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Review | Czech National Ballet’s La Sylphide marked by fast, crisp footwork

Hong Kong Arts Festival programme was performed beautifully by the Czech National Ballet. It’s just a pity there was no live music.

A scene from Czech National Ballet’s La Sylphide. Photo: Aya Erivan
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Review | Buoyant Beethoven from Kolesnikov and Hong Kong Sinfonietta

Soloist finds musical insights in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4, while orchestra shows its growth in Schumann’s ‘Rhenish’ Symphony.

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Exclusive | Russian art and Bolshoi in Hong Kong? Envoy says top museums ‘ready to share’

Envoy Anatoly Kargapolov says Moscow hopes to strengthen collaboration with Hong Kong in the arts, tourism and education.

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Review | Japanese drummer steals the show in concert with Hong Kong Sinfonietta

Senri Kawaguchi’s inspired drumming brings alive Hong Kong composer Ng Cheuk-yin’s Fly LIVE! and new work An Array of Stars in a fusion concert with Hong Kong orchestra.

Japanese drummer Senri Kawaguchi and bass guitarist Shingo Tanaka joined the Hong Kong Sinfonietta for performances of Fly LIVE! and another work by Hong Kong composer Ng Cheuk-yin as part of the 2024 Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: Hong Kong Sinfonietta
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Review | Shanghai Ballet’s A Sigh of Love looked great but never came to life

A Sigh of Love, performed by Shanghai Ballet at Hong Kong Arts Festival 2024, had impressive sets, costumes and dancing, but the story was too thin and the score incoherent.

A scene from Shanghai Ballet’s A Sigh of Love. The story of extramarital love in 1930s Shanghai proved too thin to support a full length ballet, even if the the production was visually striking. Photo: courtesy of HKAF
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Review | Robert Lepage uses puppets to tell story of teenage trauma in 1970s Quebec

Courville, Canadian Robert Lepage’s play centred on an LGBTQ teenager in 1970s Quebec, and performed as part of the 2024 Hong Kong Arts Festival, featured dazzling Japanese bunraku puppetry.

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Review | Feast of string playing from Concerto Italiano, Festival Strings Lucerne

Period instrument ensemble Concerto Italiano showed their mastery of baroque in a set of Vivaldi concertos; the Lucerne Festival Strings, performing with solo violinist Akiko Suwanai, were good in parts.

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Review | Heavy metal meets orchestral sound in Bright & Black, with mixed results

Hong Kong Arts Festival show with a rock concert vibe features pieces orchestral in scope composed by Nordic metalheads and performed by multinational Baltic Sea Philharmonic.

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Conductor Kristjan Järvi and The Baltic Sea Philharmonic, which performed Bright & Black with heavy metal cellist Eicca Toppinen during the 2024 Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: courtesy of Sunbeam Productions
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Review | Le Corsaire by La Scala ballet: well danced in places, but uneven

La Scala Theatre Ballet’s Hong Kong Arts Festival performance of Le Corsaire had its moments, not least a star turn by Nicoletta Manni as Medora, but was marred by odd story choices and some untidy dancing.

Nicoletta Manni as Medora in La Scala Theatre Ballet’s performance of Le Corsaire as part of the 2024 Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: Tony Luk
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Review | Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe’s Peony Pavilion not ‘complete’ as advertised

The Chinese opera highlight of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Peony Pavilion (Complete Version), by Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, was well done, but lacked the depth the title promised.

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Review | Multimedia choral concert rips musical works from their church settings

Garden of Repose at the West Kowloon Cultural District, a multimedia choral concert produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, includes works by Brahms, Arvo Pärt, Poulenc and Antonia Lotti.

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Review | Van Gogh and Klimt artworks get torn apart to music in vibrant choral show

Performed at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Van Gogh in Me is a multimedia display of music and visual art by the Netherlands Chamber Choir using works by Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Saint-Saëns and more.

The Netherlands Chamber Choir performs Van Gogh in Me during the 2024 Hong Kong Arts Festival. The concerts featured immersive digital projections of paintings by Van Gogh and Klimt set to music based on works by composers including Debussy, Gustav and Alma Mahler, and Saint-Saëns. Photo: Courtesy of HKAF
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‘Completely honest, with no fear’: pianist Minsoo Sohn’s approach to music

Pianist Minsoo Sohn, teacher of South Korean prodigy Yunchan Lim, is appearing in the 2024 Hong Kong Arts Festival. He talks to the Post about South Korea’s music scene and how he sees performing.

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Why this young Hong Kong-born conductor chose to build his career in Seoul

Wilson Ng, former associate conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic, will bring his current orchestra, the Hankyung Arte Philharmonic, from South Korea to the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March.

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Audiovisual Van Gogh, Angelique Kidjo: Hong Kong Arts Festival 2024 line-up

Highlights of the 2024 festival have been revealed, including ballet from Teatro alla Scala, a full-length The Peony Pavilion, Peter Brook’s last theatre production and Bavarian State Opera doing Richard Strauss.

Singer Angelique Kidjo will be making a return to Hong Kong for the 52nd Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2024. Photo: HKAF
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Review | Superstar Russian ballerina dazzles in Hong Kong Arts Festival performances

Natalia Osipova’s dazzling dancing and demonstrations of astounding flexibility lit up her Hong Kong Arts Festival performances, while the fearless male guest dancers also impressed.

Russian superstar ballerina Natalia Osipova performs “Two Feet” as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: Hong Kong Arts Festival
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Review | Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra’s proud celebration of Cantonese music

Forget the futuristic title “The Stage Door on Mars” given this production – it was very much a tribute to the present-day vibrancy of Cantonese opera and music.

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Review | Vixen, opera without orchestra, chorus or stage, engages and frustrates

Silent Opera strips operas to their bare bones. In the case of Vixen, this brings narrative clarity to Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen. But the singers still need to deliver some theatre.

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How to build an art collection in Hong Kong – according to the experts

Noted collector Henry Tang, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority chairman, and 3812 Gallery co-founder Calvin Hui point the way for potential patrons

3812 Gallery in Central. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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Review | Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov recital – soprano dazzles in Russian songs

Soprano shows the exceptionally rich tone of her voice but also delicacy and astounding control, in a programme of Russian and other songs, ably accompanied by her husband and pianist Rachel Cheung.

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, her husband, Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov and accompanist Rachel Cheung from Hong Kong receive the audience’s applause during their recital at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall on March 9. Photo: Hong Kong Arts Festival
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Review | Pavel Kolesnikov and Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s resounding ‘Rach 3’

Russian pianist’s distinctive interpretation and devotion to blending the solo part’s lines with the playing of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta marked their performance of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3.

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How is artsy members club Soho House Hong Kong nurturing the city’s creatives?

For one thing, the exclusive hang-out is going street, partnering once more with the HKwalls to bring a splash of colour – and world class artists – to Central and Sheung Wan

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