The 25th Macao Arts Festival (MAF) will set off of May 2. Festival tickets have recorded a high volume of sales and availability is now limited. Due to scheduling conflicts, the concert Impressions of Xinjiang, by the Xinjiang Philharmonic Orchestra, originally to take place on May 3, at 8pm, at Tap Seac Square, was cancelled.
Celebrating its Silver Jubilee this year, the MAF presents a programmed filled with highlights. “MOP - Dance Theatre” is a joint performance by Macao and Poland dancers. Three Macao dance companies – Violet Dance Company, Ieng Chi Dance Association and The Dancer Studio Macao – have been engaged in a three-year exchange project with renowned Polish contemporary dance master Jacek Luminski. During this period, the participants trained and performed intensively in Macao, Poland and Singapore. The Macao Virtuosi chamber orchestra will present, in Viva Mozart, the complete series of Mozart’s Violin Concerti in three separate sessions, in a salute to the music prodigy. The Macao Chinese Orchestra, under the baton of its Principal Conductor Pang Ka Pang, and with the cooperation of Italian pianist Enrica Ciccarelli and Singaporean violinist Kong Zhaohui, delivers a performance that fuses East and West, in a concert titles Reminiscence of the Classics, which includes, among others, two key pieces of the Chinese music repertoire, the ‘Yellow River’ Piano Concerto and the ‘Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto. Led by Macao Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Lu Jia, fabulous pipa master Zhang Hongyan and flautist Tang Junqiao cooperate with the Orchestra in Zhou Long’s, Guo Wenjing’s and Bright Sheng’s masterworks in the concert East Meets West. Dance is a seminal collaboration among three twentieth century masters, with choreography by Lucinda Childs and music composed by Philip Glass, set against the modernist film by visual artist Sol LeWitt. Since its debut in 1979, Dance has been recognized as a key work of the period, and was acclaimed as a postmodern classic by the The New York Times. Revived in 2009, it has since toured extensively around the world, and was referred to by the The Wall Street Journal as “one of the greatest achievements of the twentieth century”. Additionally, tickets for local productions Venetians Want to Get a House, by Macau Experimental Theatre, and Murder in San Jose, by Theatre Farmers, have been highly sought after.
For more information on the 25th MAF, please check the MAF booklet or website at www.icm.gov.mo/fam. For reservations, please call 2855 5555. Online reservations available at www.macauticket.com.
