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90-strong ensemble gives about 150 performances each year, attended by some 200 000 music lovers. In September, the orchestra toured Shanghai, Xian and Beijing. Its first stop was Shanghai where it performed at the Shanghai Expo. The orchestra also ran an educational programme in which more than 45 000 students participated.
Hong Kong Repertory Theatre
The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre staged 10 productions in 2010. Highlights included the contemporary British comic thriller Communicating Doors, classic French farce A Flea in Her Ear by George Feydeau, classic Anglo-German comic tragedy Dr Faustus, new French comedy Le Dieu du carnage, local original play Love You Forever, and local operatic drama Love's Labour's Won. The company also toured Guangzhou, Macao, Beijing, Chongqing and Shenzhen to expand its audience base and to establish an image aboard.
The company continued its commitment to drama education and audience building with an extensive range of educational, community and outreach activities. It partnered with the Hong Kong City Hall to hold a monthly script reading event, called Reader's Theatre and a theatre-in-education performance, Metamorphosis under the Star.
Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Established in 1990, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta is a leading Hong Kong professional orchestra. It brings classical music to people from all walks of life. In 2010, it gave over 90 performances, including concerts featuring world-famous musicians, Christopher Hogwood, Peter Donohoe and Benjamin Schmid. The orchestra also brought classical music to Hong Kong audiences in new ways through special audience development projects, including Hong Kong's first live orchestral concerts for babies. The orchestra made several overseas tours in 2010, performing in cities in South America and Japan. Besides presenting its crossover production, A Soldier's Story, the orchestra gave a performance to coincide with the closing of the 'Hong Kong Week' at the Shanghai Expo.
Zuni Icosahedron
Founded in 1982, Zuni Icosahedron, a cultural group, is committed to encouraging and creating cross-media and cross-regional co-operation on experimental theatre works as well as promoting arts education, arts criticism, arts policy research and international cultural exchange.
Zuni's original theatre projects in 2010 included a social theatre series, East Wing West Wing 9 - Sap Dai Kau Goon, children's cartoon music theatre The Magic Flute, Danny Yung's experimental theatre Stage Sisters, digital media opera The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, and the national arts education programme Ink Design Living.
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