• For ages 6 and above.
• Programme and artists are subject to change.
• Latecomers are not admitted until a suitable break in the programme.
• Concert runs about 2 hours, including 1 interval.
  

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring divided the musical public of Paris at its riotous première in 1913 and nearly a century later it remains an Olympian challenge for conductors and orchestras, with its wildly complex rhythms and technical extremes. But for audiences, The Rite of Spring is a thrilling armchair experience. Chen Qigang's Iris Dévoilée merges the worlds of Peking opera and Western symphonic music in a richly imaginative and evocative score. Written for the orchestra, three different vocal parts (two sopranos and one qingyi), and three Chinese instruments (a pipa , an erhu and a zheng), the piece explores the nine different moods of women in its nine movements, from ingenious, tender, to voluptuous.