**Due to overwhelming response, two additional performances on 10-11 October (7:45pm) will be available for sale from 30 September onwards.

For enquiries, please call 2268 7325 (Cultural Presentations Section) during office hours.

In Cantonese

A star-studded cast for the revival of Hong Kong musical classics

The Originals is a collage of excerpts from Hong Kong musicals created between the 1970s and 2020, reprising classic melodies and scenes of close to five decades.  It is curated by well-known local composer Leon Ko, who will also be the music director.  The performance features the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and eight top actors in musicals.  As memorable episodes reappear on stage one after another, it would be like revisiting the paving stones of the path called original musicals of Hong Kong along the way.  

Meet-the-artist Session

With meet-the-artist session after performance on 10 October matinee.  Audience are welcome to join.

Leon Ko                                                                                                                           Production Curator and Music Director

Leon Ko, Hong Kong Sinfonietta Artist Associate 2018–2019, holds a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University, and has many musicals and film scores to his credit.  His musical, Heading East, won the Richard Rodgers Development Award in the US. His musical Takeaway was staged in Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. His musicals in Cantonese – The Good Person of Szechwan, Field of Dreams, The Passage Beyond, Our Immortal Cantata, and Sing Out – have won him eight awards for Best Original Music and Best Original Lyrics at the Hong Kong Drama Awards. His soundtrack score for the film, Perhaps Love, garnered a Golden Horse Award in Taiwan, a Hong Kong Film Award, an Asia-Pacific Film Festival Award, and a Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Film Score.  His theme song for the film, The Last Tycoon, won Best Original Film Song at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards.  Other film scores include The Warlords, Mr Cinema, The Great Magician, Monster Hunt etc. Ko was the Musical Director of the Mandarin version of Hong Kong pop star Jacky Cheung’s musical, Snow, Wolf, Lake.  Other credits include rewriting the music of the Cantonese Opera classics, Princess Chang-ping, The Reincarnation of the Red Plum Blossom and Butterfly and Red Pear Blossom presented by the Yam Kim Fai & Pak Suet Sin Charitable Foundation.

Fong Chun Kit                                                                                                                                                              Director

Fong Chun Kit graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2010 majoring in Directing, and since then has been working for various performing arts companies in Hong Kong. Three Men and a Lady, which he wrote, directed and performed, was nominated for Best Script at the Hong Kong Theatre Libre Awards in 2011. He was nominated for Best Director (Tragedy/Drama) at the 2016 Hong Kong Drama Awards for his directorial efforts in Marriage. In 2017, Fong won his first Best Director (Comedy/Satire) award at the 2017 Hong Kong Drama Awards with The Truth from Liar. In 2018, his directorial efforts in Sing Out won for him Best Director (Comedy/Farce) award at the Hong Kong Drama Awards, and Lysistrata, Best Director at the Hong Kong Theatre Libre Awards. In 2019, he was nominated for Best Director (Tragedy/Drama) at the Hong Kong Drama Awards, while the on tour version of Marriage won him Best Director Award at the 3^rd Chinese Theatre Awards. 

Fong will join the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre as Resident Director in October, 2020.

Yip Wing Sie                                                                                                                                                               Conductor

A highly respected conductor in Asia, Yip Wing-sie has been the Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta (HKS) since 2002.  The role was changed to Music Director Emeritus as of May 2020. Yip was the winner of the First Prize as well as the “Lyre d’Or” award in France’s 35th Concours international de jeunes chefs d’orchestre de Besançon in 1985 and a prize-winner in the 8th Tokyo International Conducting Competition in 1988.  Yip has been actively promoting the performance of classical music in different forms, and has guest conducted several orchestras around the world, including the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of China, China National Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitol de Toulouse and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.  Yip was made Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM) in 2010, and was conferred the insignia Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite by the French government in 2015 in recognition of her outstanding achievements in music.

Hong Kong Sinfonietta                                                                                       

As one of Hong Kong’s flagship orchestras, noted for its innovative programming and passionate performances, Hong Kong Sinfonietta (HKS) is dedicated to investing in a cultural tomorrow.  It regularly collaborates with internationally renowned musicians and groups such as Ilya Gringolts, Martin Helmchen, Sergei Nakariakov, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Krzysztof Penderecki, Mariinsky Ballet, The Royal ballet, American Ballet Theatre and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Often invited to give guest performances abroad, HKS has toured over 40 cities around the world participating in prestigious arts and music fests, including Festival International de Piano La Roque d’Anthéron and Festival de Musique Menton in France, and Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland.  Each year, HKS commissions new compositions as well as produces crossover programmes with artists from other arts sectors.  Since 2006, its Artist Associate Scheme has created new possibilities for classical music, among which was the co-production of The Passage Beyond in Concert with composer Leon Ko in 2014 and 2016, followed by the release of the album of the same title in 2018. As the orchestra’s 2018 Artist Associate, Leon Ko further presented The Amazing Filmphony jointly with HKS that year featuring several of his film scores and songs.

The running time of the performance is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes without intermission. 

Latecomers will only be admitted at a suitable break.

The Originals - Hong Kong Musicals in Concert

DATE

VENUE

PRICE

09.10.2020 (Fri) - 11.10.2020 (Sun)
19:45

10.10.2020 (Sat) - 11.10.2020 (Sun)
14:45

Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

$480, $380, $280, $180

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DATE

09.10.2020 (Fri) - 11.10.2020 (Sun)
19:45

10.10.2020 (Sat) - 11.10.2020 (Sun)
14:45

VENUE

Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

PRICE

$480, $380, $280, $180

BUY NOW

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The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and substitute artists should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary.

The programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.