2020

A site-specific performance at Hong Kong Park’s Forsgate Conservatory. An initiative of the HKBU’s Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, and was a programme under ReNew Vision with support from the LSCD.

Breathing life into big data and animated by children’s imagination, Aria is an ethereal encounter of vocal performances, dance and immersive light installations in a night-time conservatory. Responsive to the COVID-19 pandemic and a new vision for what international productions may become, the pathbreaking promenade experience unites the Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning Theatre of Voices, appearing via hologram, the Hong Kong Children’s Choir and cross-disciplinary artists in a song of air beyond the Anthropocene.

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Featuring:
Conductor: Prof. Johnny Poon
Associate Conductors: Dominic Lam, Vivian Suen
 
Conductor, Theatre of Voices: Paul Hillier
Vocal Performers: Theatre of Voices (Denmark)‍
Soprano: Else Torp
Mezzo soprano: Signe Asmussen
Alto: Iris Oja
Tenor: Paul Bentley-Angell
Bass: Jakob Bloch Jespersen
 
Choral Performers: Hong Kong Children’s Choir
 
Dancers:
Natalie Chan Mei-kuen
Carman Li Ka-man
Hui Ka-chun
Liu Heung-man
King Lo King-san
Emily Ng Mei-yee
 
Creative and Production Team:
 
Composer / Artistic Director (Music): Eugene A. Birman
Artistic Director (Visual): Kingsley Ng
Curator: Stephanie Cheung
 
Technical Designer: Jason Wong
Lighting Designer: Lee Chi-wai
Librettist: Scott Diel
Sound Engineer: Giovanni Santini
Sound System Designer: Lou Jin-ming
Audio Equipment: J-reamy Sound
Light Programmer: Billy Wong
Costume Designer: Hofi Man Ho-yin
Tailors: Teresa Wong, Fong
Stage Manager: Voyu Tsui Wai-hong
Deputy Stage Manager: Ho Tak-ching
Technical Crew: Chan Lok-sze, Cheuk Kam-shing, Leung Hei-wa, Leung Hei-wa, Leung Tat-ming,
Ng Ka-man, Jacky Nhan, Wan Yuk-yu,
Project Manager: Nicky Liang
Floor Manager: Felix Yiu
Front of House: Chan Tsz-lam, Cheng Yim, Ku Wun-yan, Mak Hau-yi Lilian, Joyce Siu, Ting Lap-tak
Graphic Design: Studio MARY
Video Coordinator: Jessie Coo
 
Acknowledgements: Hong Kong Children’s Choir
Music Director: Kathy Fok
General Manager: Wilson Tse
Rehearsal Pianist: Lin Ching
Production Staff: Eva Chan, Moon Hung,
Staff: Lok Leung, David Tam, Agnes Ng