A Lunar New Year Celebration
Welcome the Year of the Boar with orchestral fireworks at the iconic Sydney Opera House! The Sydney Symphony Orchestra and special guests deliver a musical celebration where East-meets-West.
In the Concert Hall, our largest venue. | View Seat Map
A musical celebration where East-meets-West
The Spring Festival Overture captures the festival excitement of the Lunar New Year. It’s so popular that it was broadcast into space on China’s first lunar probe. It ushers in an East-meets-West musical celebration with dances from the heart of China and thrilling moments from opera by Borodin and Tchaikovsky. And the Jin Wu Koon Lion Dance Troupe ensure the year gets off to an auspicious start.
Qigang’s exquisite Iris Unveiled brings shimmering Chinese colours, instruments and voices to the orchestra. The striking, sensuous sound of Peking Opera Singer Meng Meng with erhu (fiddle), pipa (lute) and zheng (zither) contributes to a dreamlike atmosphere, with music that is by turns refined, abandoned and seductive.
Directing the celebrations is ‘impeccable and virtuoso’ young conductor Elim Chan. She’s one of Hong Kong’s brightest musical stars.
PROGRAM
Li Huanzhi Spring Festival Overture
Chen Qigang Iris Unveiled
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
Borodin Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Liu Tieshan & Mao Yuan Dance of the Yao Tribe
ARTIST INFORMATION
Elim Chan Conductor
Meng Meng Peking Opera singer
Amelia Farrugia Soprano
Eva Kong Soprano
Jin Wu Koon Lion Dance Troupe
Presented by Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Sponsored by: Bank of China
Part of the City of Sydney Lunar Festival

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