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Edison Hung

The City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong’s third original musical, Shark Symphony features a dazzling range of diverse performances to tell a story based on sustainability and shark’s fin soup.

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.

Is it live theatre, a concert, a puppet show or a talk show? Tao of Glass is all of those things, a humorous take on failure, death and acceptance involving puppets and Philip Glass’ minimalist music.

Conductor Cornelius Meister drew a performance of subtlety and emotional depth from the orchestra, two choirs and soloists, even if the men’s voices sometimes lacked sufficient power.

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An album of piano compositions by Jonathan Douglas has been released posthumously on Spotify by the family of the late Hong Kong radio presenter and composer.

Five digital singers blended seamlessly with soprano Eir Inderhaug, performing live, in a presentation in Hong Kong of opera Chasing Waterfalls, about our identity crisis in the digital age.

A co-production between Freespace and the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, this musical about an immoral lawyer in 19th-century China has plot problems but makes up for them through its music.