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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts
Arts Festival productions Always by Your Side and Gangsters of Hong Kong. Other highlights included the festival opening Marin Alsop with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser by Oper Leipzig with Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Chor der Oper Leipzig, and the Cantonese opera Pavilion of a Hundred Flowers (Reboot) by Fredric Mao.
International Arts Carnival
The department's annual International Arts Carnival in July and August opened with The Heart of Robin Hood by Vesturport. Over 85,000 people attended the carnival, which presented 268 events featuring theatre, music, baby opera, dance, puppet theatre, circus and multimedia music theatre.
World Cultures Festival
The department's World Cultures Festival - The Nordics, the eighth edition of the festival, featured the most pioneering and representative performing arts from the region. The 125 events, which included the opening show, contemporary opera Autumn Sonata, drew more than 60,000 people.
Chinese Opera Festival
The department's 10th Chinese Opera Festival featured Cantonese opera, Peking opera, kunqu opera and other regional genres. The 63 events attracted more than 27,000 people.
Hong Kong Week 2019@Taipei
The eighth Hong Kong Week in Taipei, presented by the Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Cooperation Committee, ran from 18 to 29 September with seven performances, one talk, one exhibition and 15 extension activities, attracting an attendance of more than 33,000.
Festival Hong Kong 2019 - A Cultural Extravaganza@Shanghai
The first Hong Kong Week in the Mainland, Festival Hong Kong 2019 - A Cultural Extravaganza@Shanghai, was presented from 1 to 23 November in Shanghai to promote Hong Kong artists and arts groups and enhance cultural exchange with Mainland cities. The festival showcased performing arts, exhibitions and films in 90 performances and activities, drawing around 400,000 people.
Muse Fest HK
The fifth edition of Muse Fest HK ran from late June to early July with the theme, 'Curating the New! It brought together 14 museums, three other cultural venues and three museum-related disciplines under the department to organise 95 programmes. Two museums from Singapore and 16 other museums from Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macao were invited as museum partners along with two other local organisations to promote a museum culture. The festival attracted more than 330,000 people.
Museums
The LCSD manages 14 museums, two visual arts centres and a film archive.
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