More Than Musical will launch the world premiere of their new multimedia theatrical production in Summer 2021, Carmen | Hong Kong, in Freespace. Featuring a score rearranged by renowned Italian musical director Elio Orciuolo, this 90-minute adaptation of Bizet’s classic opera is directed by the award-winning American Jennifer Williams, and performed by a cast of international and local singers, including Korean mezzo soprano Moon Jin Kim, Korean tenor Bumjoo Lee and Japanese bass Hidenori Inoue.

Carmen | Hong Kong is a multimedia theatrical production that fuses classical opera, music theatre, video design, and modern dance into an immersive experience. The adaptation reimagines Bizet’s iconic opera as a story about a Hong Kong woman and her unwavering pursuit of self-actualisation and her place in the world as a modern woman.

Rather than being fixed in a specific historical moment, the story is set in an imagined future, a few years ahead of our present. The theatre will be turned into a contemporary and immersive environment which integrates space, light and video. Projections of videos and moving images and a kinetic sculpture, which the vocalists and the dancer will interact with, replace conventional theatrical set and props. These projections include video and photo references to buildings and scenery of Hong Kong as a homage to iconic aspects of the city’s cultural past.

TICKETING INFORMATION

The production will be on 30th and 31st July 2021 at The Box, Freespace, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District for two performances. Unlike the original opera which is two and a half hours long, Carmen | Hong Kong runs 90 minutes without an interval.

Performed in French with Chinese and English surtitles

The programme will last approximately 90 minutes without an intermission

Latecomers will not be admitted – audience members are strongly advised to please arrive punctually

CREATIVE TEAM

JENNIFER WILLIAMS- STAGE DIRECTOR

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as an ‘imaginative’ director of ‘particular ingenuity’, Jennifer Williams is an innovator in multimedia, immersive and site-specific approaches to opera. She recently directed acclaimed new productions of Mohammed Fairouz's Sumeida's Song and Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek's 27 for Pittsburgh Opera.

Ms. Williams has worked throughout the U.S. and Europe, including at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, The Glimmerglass Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, Central City Opera, and Cincinnati Opera.

ELIO ORCUIOLO - ARTISTIC & MUSIC DIRECTOR

Elio Orciuolo began his career in 1988 as Assistant Conductor at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Italy. Since then he has been dedicated to opera theatre in a number of roles, including chorus master, conductor, artistic director and music arranger. He conducts a wide range of symphonic repertoire and operas, including Aida, Rigoletto, Tosca, La traviata, Madama Butterfly, Carman, Don Carlo, L’elisir d’amore, Così fan tutte and many more, in Italy and across the globe.

KENNETH HUI - CHOREOGRAPHER & DANCER

Ka Chun Hui, Kenneth completed his professional dance training at Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts with first class honors and started his professional career in Hong Kong Ballet (HK), Danish Dance Theater (DK) and Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (DE) from 2014 to 2020. He is now a freelance dancer, choreographer, director of screen dance and photographer in Hong Kong.

MORE ABOUT THE SHOW

This event is proudly supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Equal Opportunities Foundation, Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation, Sino Art and Tom Lee Music

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