Outgoing music director likens the flexibility playing Wagner has given the orchestra to driving a Ferrari, talks about improving, not firing, players, and says his one regret is not putting on a Mozart opera.

Three friends who endured a horribly discriminatory job interview decided to bring the experiences of disabled artists in Hong Kong to the public arena under a banner of ‘crip art’.

It was Wagner that changed the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s profile, so it was fitting that one of Jaap van Zweden’s last programmes as its music director was a concert version of opera The Flying Dutchman.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is bidding farewell to Jaap van Zweden with a programme that reflects the legacy of its formidable music director.

With the action moved to Ming dynasty China, Law Ka-ying adapts, directs and stars with Sun Kim-long in the story about a sensitive hero with a big nose caught in a love triangle.

Yip Wai-hong committed his life to music education, founding two orchestras and the world’s largest children’s choir. He dies on Father’s Day after a visit from his daughters, among them Yip Wing-sie.

Performance art has taken root in Hong Kong despite the political climate, especially among millennials and Gen Z, probably inspired by Marina Abramović, with gender, feminism and sexuality top themes.

Some industry chiefs call for creation of dedicated facility similar to government-run Hong Kong Film Archive to safeguard cultural gems.

Hong Kong troupe rise brilliantly to the occasion in a work, radically different from anything it has danced before, that depicts what happens to the characters after the action in Shakespeare’s play.

‘World’s wettest party’ combines elements of Thailand’s Songkran water festival with a roster of international artists.

American mezzo-soprano’s show Eden, about the importance of nature and the ravages of war, draws on 400 years of song. DiDonato’s deeply felt singing and vocal and physical expressiveness were captivating.

Soloist Liya Petrova was up to most of the challenges posed by the Sibelius violin concerto, and received great support from the Sinfonietta. Asian premieres of two UK composers’ works were a mixed bag.

Ye Feifei has never danced the Odette/Odile role better, and guest dancer Matthew Ball was her ideal foil, in Hong Kong Ballet’s new Swan Lake. But the production is marred by some questionable choices.

Hong Kong-born actress and filmmaker Jo Chim tells Kate Whitehead about hiding her Chinese side from school friends, being mean in Mean Girls and why she got invited to Nasa.

Saurabh Shukla, who will be bringing his stage show Barff – Hindi for ‘snow’ – to Hong Kong in June, talks about being typecast for his large frame and still feeling 22 at the age of 60.

On the back of a tour of mainland China with the HK Phil, Hong Kong rising-star violinist Paloma So spoke to the Post about spreading music to young people, and her unlikely career in classical music.

Eric Chan’s life-changing moment came when he played the Royal Albert Hall organ for a schools concert – ‘the whole building started shaking.’ The Hong Kong organist tours Europe, yet can’t play at home.

Hong Kong Ballet has commissioned a new production of Swan Lake. Artistic director Septime Webre, the troupe’s ballet master and senior ballerina talk about working with Yuri Possokhov on the ballet.

Hip hop artists, breakdancers, martial artists and orchestral musicians aim to create ‘unexpected dialogues’ in a Hong Kong show, while another that also has skaters and BMX riders has a similar theme.

In her Eden show, coming soon to Hong Kong, Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato doesn’t just sing about nature – she hands audience members seeds to sow to bring them closer to nature.

Emanuel Gat Dance’s LoveTrain2020, set to songs by 1980s band Tears for Fears, leaves much to be desired despite the energy and commitment of the dancers – what you can see of them on the dimly lit stage.

Oddisee, who was in Hong Kong for Clockenflap 2018, is back for an intimate gig, playing music from his catalogue, including his latest album To What End, and coming EP And Yet Still.

Board chairman of arts hub’s managing body says government has until August to make decision, as remaining funds will only last a year.

Malaysian comedian Jason Leong, back in Hong Kong for a live show, talks to the Post about being ‘unhappy as a doctor’, quitting medicine for the mic, and where he gets his material from.

Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass’ haunting 2007 stage production of Cohen’s Book of Longing is being staged in Hong Kong. Director Mo Lai Yan-chi talks of her fascination with Cohen’s life and work.

Lyman Heung, a dancer who won King Maker V, is presenting a new dance show called Unspoken, on until May 12. He shares with the Post how he dropped out of college and chose to follow his dreams.

French conductor Philippe Fournier will watch over a two-day conducting master class organised by the co-founders of Hong Kong ensemble Le Gai, in an effort to fill a gap in local music education.