Compiled from the Performing Arts programmes* and Visual Arts exhibition records from HKADC’s Arts Yearbooks and Annual Arts Survey projects dating from 2010.

Buddha Passion

Music

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Art Genres / Sub-categories

Western Instrumental Music, Choir

Location

Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Concert Hall

Start Date

2018/11/02

End Date

2018/11/03

Art Genres / Sub-categories

Western Instrumental Music, Choir

Location

Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Concert Hall

Start Date

2018/11/02

End Date

2018/11/03

Buddha Passion

New Vision Arts Festival 2018

Description

Description

Oriental wisdom distilled into a trailblazing Dunhuang epic dedicated to humanity

Tan Dun, the Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer-conductor, boldly presents ancient narratives of Buddha’s teachings in a sweeping epic to celebrate universal values such as equality and sacrifice. Sung in Chinese and Sanskrit, Buddha Passion opens up unprecedented vistas for art and humanity, masterfully melding different cultures into an all-embracing unity.

Buddha Passion consists of six acts – Bodhi Tree, Nine-coloured Deer, Thousand-hand Guanyin, Zen Garden, Heart Sutra, and Nirvana – featuring a star-studded cast of top soloists who portray various characters from Buddhist legends. For this project, Tan Dun visited Dunhuang dozens of times over two years, studying murals in Mogao Caves and reconstructing musical instruments, such as the fantan pipa and xiqin depicted there. In this Asia premiere, he will lead a 200-strong cast from the International Choir Academy Lübeck and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus in his extraordinary quest to revive long-lost sounds from the Tang dynasty.

Conductor:Tan Dun [China]
Baritone:Shen Yang [China]
Soprano:Maria Chiara Chizzoni [Italy]
Mezzo-soprano:Zhu Huiling [China]
Tenor:Wang Kang [China]
Indigenous performer:Tan Weiwei [China]
Indigenous performer/Xiqin instrumentalist:Batubagen [China]
Dunhuang fantan pipa & dance performer:Chen Yining [China]
Composer:Tan Dun

Info

Lowest Price

$280

Highest Price

$580

Indoor / Outdoor

Indoor

Local / Non-local Production

Local, Non-local

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