- This event has passed.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
The annual Cantonese Opera Day, presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), will be held on November 24 (Sunday) afternoon at the Ko Shan Theatre and Ko Shan Theatre New Wing for the first time.
The 22nd edition of the event, themed “Fun with Cantonese Opera, Joy at Ko Shan Theatre”, will feature a wide array of exciting performances and activities, which include Cantonese opera excerpt performances, demonstration sessions, workshops, a trial performance playground, talks, booth games, guided tours, autograph sessions and an exhibition. Members of the public are invited to join for free. Tickets are required for some of the performances and activities, which will be available through online registration starting November 6 (Wednesday) on a first-come, first-served basis. A small quantity of tickets will be reserved for walk-in participants while stocks last. The event is one of the programmes of the 4th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival.
Exciting programmes of this year’s Cantonese Opera Day include two Cantonese opera excerpt performances, namely “Up and Coming New Forces in Cantonese Opera” and “Child Cantonese Opera Stars Showcase”, featuring local talented young and child Cantonese opera performers respectively to showcase their learning outcomes. Audience members may also have the opportunity to sing classic Cantonese opera songs with veteran Cantonese opera stars and up-and-coming talent on the spot. Winners of primary and secondary school groups in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival Cantonese Opera Competition and young Cantonese opera students will gather at the Ko Shan Culture Tea & Coffee for “Cantonese Operatic Songs Unplugged” and share their experience in learning Cantonese opera.
To enable participants to learn more about Cantonese opera, a world intangible cultural heritage item, from multiple perspectives, a number of workshops and demonstration sessions will be held on that day, covering stylised movements and postures, make-up, costume dressing, as well as miniature mask production. This year, the “Cantonese Opera Trial Performance Playground” is a newly added activity in which a Cantonese opera instructor will teach parents and their children to collaborate in performing a short segment of Cantonese opera, allowing them to experience the joy of acting and singing. The “Laugh and Craft: Cantonese Opera Playgroups” will feature a variety of family-friendly booth games such as quiz competitions and handicraft workshops to let members of the public have a taste of Cantonese opera culture. Talks on Cantonese opera culture and behind-the-scenes happenings, as well as guided tours of the Cantonese Education and Information Centre will also be arranged for participants. The Cantonese Opera Day features many fascinating programmes, and participants can redeem a souvenir by collecting stamps at designated locations while stocks last.
In addition, this year’s Cantonese Opera Day will once again feature the popular “Autograph Session” with Cantonese opera virtuosos such as Loong Koon-tin, Tang Mi-ling, Wan Fai-yin, Lau Wai-ming, Leung Siu-ming and Cheng Wing-mui. The “Cantonese Opera Art Exhibition”, which is co-ordinated by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, will also be held at the Exhibition Gallery of the New Wing from November 19 to 24.
