The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) - HKAPA

Conductor | Piano: Lio Kuok-man

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a spectacular symphonic concert, bringing together alumni from around the globe and current members of the Academy Symphony Orchestra. The audience will witness the versatile musician, Lio Kuok-man, seamlessly transitioning between piano and conducting, showcasing his extraordinary artistry.

The concert will open with John Williams' inspiring The Olympic Spirit, followed by Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, featuring Lio Kuok-man as both soloist and conductor. The grand finale will be Bernstein's vibrant and dynamic Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, bringing the evening to a thrilling close.

Join us for this unforgettable night of music, celebrating four decades of HKAPA's musical excellence and talent!

Renowned Hong Kong playwright and actress Wong Wing Sze is best known for her solo performance My Grandmother’s Funeral. Born into a Taoist family specializing in funeral rites but raised with a Catholic education, she was deeply moved by her grandmother’s elaborate Taoist funeral in 2006. This experience inspired a year of research and a collaboration with esteemed director Lee Chun Chow, resulting in a landmark one-woman show that won her the Hong Kong Drama Award for Best Actress (Comedy/Farce).

Premiering in 2008, My Grandmother’s Funeral blends dark humor with deep emotion. Performed ten times over 17 years to sold-out audiences, it remains a beloved and enduring work in Hong Kong theatre.

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Paul Taylor – 100% in English
Paul makes fun of the French and they love it. Or they tell him to go back to England! After 3 sell-out bilingual world tours, Paul shares his story of being a British expat in France, this time 100% in English. Hold onto your berets!

Personal Bio
Paul Taylor is a British comedian who has been living in France since 2009. His trademark is poking fun at the French and the French lifestyle, as well as at himself, by sharing his offbeat expat experiences, including linguistic misunderstandings and cultural mix-ups.

In 2016, he released his first bilingual show, "#FRANGLAIS," to phenomenal success. He followed it up with his second and third shows, "So British (ou presque)" and "Bisoubye". With this trilogy of bilingual shows, Paul has captivated tens of thousands of spectators with sold-out performances in the most prestigious of venues in France and around the world.

Alongside his stage performances, Paul has also ventured into creating video content. Spotted early in his career by the French TV channel Canal+, he developed and produced the hit TV show “WTF France," which catapulted him into the limelight. Paul’s online videos now have hundreds of millions of views, and he has over 1.5 million followers on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

This year, Belilios Winds joins forces with the newly established B-JAZZ All Girls Big Band to bring you a more diverse musical experience! The concert will be divided into two exciting parts:

For the first half, we have Belilios Winds to perform a series of engaging concert band pieces, including the world premiere of a new work composed specifically for Belilios Winds by Lora Chow!

For the second half, B-JAZZ will take you on a journey to explore the charm of jazz, featuring special guest vocalists Louise Kwong and Jo Jo Pang, who will deliver unforgettable performances!

Don’t miss the show and get your tickets now!

As a multi-talented singer, Raymond has an extensive repertoire that spans Chinese and Western classical music, folk music as well as popular songs. At his coming concerts at the Academy for the Performing Arts, he will regale audiences with his trademark lyrical numbers, as well as present some of his new compositions. Raymond is also a staunch supporter of youth development work, and he will donate all proceeds from the concert to the Hong Kong Association of Youth Development. Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy good music and contribute to society at the same time!

Hong Kong Grand Opera presents: Die Fledermaus – an operetta by Johann Strauss Jr

Set in a fictitious near-future Hong Kong ruled by mega-conglomerates, corporate lawyer Falke throws a Gatsby-themed bash for the return of the incoming CEO Orlofsky, who brings a rare freedom: to laugh, to play, to unite. Eisenstein, a high-flying executive facing a sentence in the company’s private prison, sees the party as his last shot at flirting and flaunting. His wife Rosalinde, tangled in her own affair, plots to expose him. But as mistaken identities multiply and revenge fades into irrelevance, something unexpected happens – just when everything seems on the brink of chaos: everyone sheds their masks, letting go of their struggles for a fleeting glimpse of joy.

Born out of Vienna’s 1873 stock market crash, Johann Strauss Jr’s Die Fledermaus was a celebration of joy in the face of crisis. Today, as we spin through burnout and late-capitalist absurdity, the operetta asks: what if we didn’t just escape… but truly laughed again? With French maestro Pierre Vallet conducting a production led by young international director Eugene Ma in his local opera debut, Hong Kong Grand Opera invites you to an evening of dramatic elation and melodious bliss!

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Eisenstein | Chen Yong
Rosalinde | Kenix Tsang (13.6) / Li Yang (14.6)
Adele | Joyce Wong (13.6) / Phoebe Tam (14.6)
Prince Orlofsky | Samantha Chong
Dr Falke | Caleb Woo (13.6) / Jeremy Leung (14.6)
Alfred | Jiyu Cai
Frank | Sammy Chien
Ida | Gloria Chan
Dr Blind | Gabriel Ma (13.6) / Michael Lee (14.6)
Frosch | Jeremy Wong
Hong Kong Grand Opera Chorus
Hong Kong Grand Opera Orchestra

Producer | Dongjian Gong
Stage Director | Eugene Ma
Conductor | Pierre Vallet
Costume Designer | Yoki Lai
Lighting Designer | Leo Siu
Chorus Master | Leon Chu

Sung in German with dialogue in English and Cantonese, Chinese/English surtitles available
Performance runs approximately 2 hours with intermission
For ages 6 and above

The classic British play Skylight is returning in 2025!

Having won the Laurence Olivier Award for "Play of the Year" and "Outstanding Debut Ensemble," this production is directed by Roy Szeto, with a script translated and performed by Ivana Wong, alongside Tse Kwan Ho and Lee Sum Yu, who will passionately revive this complex emotional journey on stage.

Since its premiere in 2023, every show has been sold out and received rave reviews! It will make a strong return to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in July 2025.

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"Skylight 2025"

Playwright: David Hare
Director: Roy Szeto
Translation: Ivana Wong
Starring: Tse Kwan Ho, Ivana Wong, Lee Sum Yu