The Leisure and Cultural Services Department will present four demonstration lectures under the "When Mozart Goes to the Opera" series in May. The lectures will be hosted by renowned tenor David Quah. He will collaborate with pianist Timmy Tsang to delve into the magic of Mozart's operas.

     The lectures will cover Mozart's comic operas, serious operas, opera collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and German light operas. All lectures (to be conducted in Cantonese) will take place at 7.30pm at the Lecture Hall of the Hong Kong Space Museum. Details are as follows:
 
May 10 (Wednesday)
Topic: "Opera Buffa"
 
May 17 (Wednesday)
Topic: "Opera Seria"
 
May 24 (Wednesday)
Topic: "Da Ponte Operas"
 
May 31 (Wednesday)
Topic: "Singspiel"

     Winner of the noted Marianne Mathy Australian Singing Competition, Malaysian-born tenor David Quah made his professional debut singing as Don Ottavio in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" with Opera Queensland. He moved to Hong Kong in 2000 and started teaching singing at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He has appeared on concert stages all over the world and has given many recitals with repertoire ranging from baroque music to contemporary works, Chinese folk songs and a Broadway musical.
 
     Tickets priced at $50 per lecture (free seating) are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7321 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/music/programs_206.html.

Ends/Thursday, March 30, 2017
Issued at HKT 11:45

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