Macao Orchestra 2024-25 Season Opening Concert
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Sylvia Chang and Lio Kuokman”

Date: 31/08/2024 Saturday 20:00

Venue: Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium

Conductor / Lio Kuokman
Narrator / Sylvia Chang
Soprano / Vivian Yau
Soprano / Rena Fujii

Chorus: Ladies of The Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus
Lyrics translation and dramatic adaptation: Chiao Yuan-Pu

Programme:
MENDELSSOHN: Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

After triumphant runs in Taipei and Hong Kong, multi-talented actress Sylvia Chang joins the Macao Orchestra as narrator for Shakespeare’s enchanting comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The play’s multiple levels of romance and humour have inspired generations of artists, none more popular than Felix Mendelssohn, whose marvellous balance of classicism and romanticism is most famously displayed in a Wedding March that has won the hearts (and celebrated the nuptials) of countless couples. This adaptation by Yuan-pu Chiao features all of the incidental music that Mendelssohn penned for the play, and the Macao Orchestra is joined by soloists and the female chorus of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus. Every note by Mendelssohn will delight us.

Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, including one interval

The organizer reserves the right to alter the programme and/ or the cast of performers.