[LUNCHTIME CONCERT] MONTHLY RECITAL SERIES

Date: Friday, 23 February 2018 | Friday, 23 March 2018

Time: 13:00 – 13:45

Venue: Drake Gallery, 1/F Fung Ping Shan Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

Cost: Free admission, all are welcome.

Registration required:

https://goo.gl/n68g7v   (23 Feb)

https://goo.gl/qvAQfV   (23 Mar)

Young artists of the Jockey Club Opera Hong Kong Young Artist Development Programme will present you excerpts of famous operas on a monthly basis from February to November in 2018 at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong. The upcoming performance will be on 23 February and 23 March 2018 (Fri), 1:00PM-1:45PM.

REPERTOIRE AND PERFORMERS 

23 February 2018: "Werther" - Samantha Chong

23 March 2018: "Don Pasquale" - Phoebe Tam

ABOUT WERTHER

Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by J. Massenet, based on the German epistolary novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther” written by Johann W. Goethe about Goethe's own early life.

ABOUT DON PASQUALE

Don Pasquale is an opera buffa (comic opera) in three acts by G. Donizetti. It is based on the libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's opera Ser Marcantonio, about the bliss of young love and an old man’s bitter covetousness.

ABOUT JOCKEY CLUB OPERA HONG KONG YOUNG ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Sponsored by The Jockey Club Charities Trust, the Jockey Club Opera Hong Kong Young Artist Development Programme (the Programme) is the first-ever intensive opera training project complemented with a series of outreach activities in Hong Kong. Mr. Gong Dongjian, a famous bass and an experienced vocal coach, is the Programme Director of the Programme. The ten selected soloists for the Programme 2017-18 are sopranos Lam Wing Wing Colette, Li Yang, Tam Lok Hin Phoebe, Wong Wah Sheung Joyce, Mezzo-sopranos Chan Ho Yuen Dominique, Chong Ying Zing Samantha, Zhang Qian Bobbie, tenor Chen Yong, baritones Chen Chun Yiu Alexander and Chien Sum Ming Sammy.

ABOUT UMAG

Founded in 1953, UMAG is the oldest continuously operated museum in Hong Kong. Chief among its collections are the Museum’s ceramics, which display the extraordinary achievements of the Chinese potter from jars painted in the Neolithic period to the decorative porcelains of the Qing dynasty. The permanent collection is complemented by a broad range of special exhibitions and contemporary and ancient art works, including chinoiserie tapestries produced by the Beauvais manufactory in France and 100 documentary images from the renowned Magnum photographer Erich Lessing.