The 21-day festival will present 30 shows covering a wide range of music genres such as opera, symphony, ethnic music, crossover, and more. Like previous years, there will be public activities that include children's musical, urban musical, Chinese music concert, as well as music-themed seminars, lectures and dialogues.
Keeping its theme "Musial Legacy and Innovation" in mind, the festival plans to demonstrate the development of classical music in the 21st century. The traditional values of classical music will not only be safeguarded, but also delivered in a novel way.
As for "Innovation", spectators will get the chance to admire the opera A Midsummer Night's Dream, adapted by British composer Benjamin Britten, as well as the 3D mini opera Blank Out written and directed by Michelle van der Ar from the Netherlands. Moreover, Mozart's opera masterpiece
Giovanni will be presented in an unprecedented way. It will be a site-specific immersive production with revolutionary visual technology and stage effect. To top it off, the multimedia music theatre -
The Fugitive - will be a new rendition of Schubert's vocality series Winterreise.
Regarding "Legacy", notably, Tchaikovsky symphonies corpora will be brought by Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra with outstanding Russian conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev at the helm from October 26-28. On October 23 and 24, Dvorak's works will be staged by Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Jiří Bělohlávek conducting the group. Dvorak’s works will follow a concert to mark the 400th year of William Shakespeare's death, given jointly by Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Guangzhou Youth Orchestra. Mozart's piano concertos will be performed on October 17 by Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, along with four three-generational pianists, Yin Chengzong, Song Siheng, Liu Mengjie and Wang Yalun.
For the first time in the festival’s history, China NCPA Orchestra will open the BMF. Director and principal conductor Lv Jia will conduct the concert featuring Brahms and Shostakovich, while Mahler, Mozart and Lin Feng's compositions will be played at the closing concert by Hongkong Philharmonic Orchestra led by Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden.
Source: china.org