[Concert]
Stabat Mater 聖母悼歌
1 Dec 2025 Monday 8pm
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall
https://www.urbtix.hk/event-detail/14121/
PROGRAMME
Villa-Lobos
– Chôros No. 10 (“Rasga o coração”)
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
– Overture to L’italiana in Algeri
– Stabat Mater
PERFORMERS
The Hong Kong Bach Choir and Orchestra
Music Director:
Jerome Hoberman
Soloists:
Vivian Yau, soprano
Samantha Chong, Mezzo-soprano
Henry Ngan, tenor
Caleb Woo, bass
BACH CHOIR & ORCHESTRA CELEBRATE ROSSINI
Few composers were as famous during their lifetimes as Gioachino Rossini. Yet few who were that famous are as unappreciated as he is today – known mainly for a single comic opera, The Barber of Seville.
The Hong Kong Bach Choir and Orchestra focus their attention on this much-misunderstood master on Monday evening, 1st December, at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall on the Tsim Sha Tsui harborfront, with a performance of Rossini’s masterpiece, Stabat Mater.
Rossini’s cultural reach extended beyond Europe even to the Americas. In Brazil this is apparent in its Italian-opera-inspired national anthem. The diverse concert program recognizes that influence with a performance of Chôros No. 10 by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, which incorporates a well-known Brazilian popular song, Rasga o coração [Tear Out My Heart].
The concert opens with a second work by Rossini, the Overture to his comic opera L’italiana in Algeri [The Italian Woman in Algiers], which reflects surprisingly cosmopolitan European-Asian relations in Rossini’s time, to which he contributed greatly, and which Hong Kong itself represents.
Featured soloists are soprano Vivian Yau, mezzo-soprano Samantha Chong, tenor Henry Ngan, and baritone Caleb Woo. Music Director Jerome Hoberman conducts.
節目
魏拉–羅伯士
– 鳩羅曲第十首《撕開我的心》
羅西尼
-《阿爾及爾的義大利女郎》序曲
– 聖母悼歌
演出者
香港巴赫合唱團及樂團
音樂總監:
何博文
獨唱:
邱芷芊 女高音
張吟晶 女中音
顏嘉樂 男高音
胡永正 男低音
香港巴赫合唱團及樂團表演羅西尼作品
很少作曲家能像羅西尼(Gioachino Rossini)一樣，生前已經名成利就；很少作曲家也會像羅西尼一樣，盛極一時後如今乏人問津，現時幾乎只靠一齣喜歌劇《塞維爾理髮師》仍為人所知。
大家對羅西尼的誤解似乎太多了，為了還他清白，香港巴赫合唱團及樂團將於12月1日(星期一)晚上，在尖沙咀海濱的香港文化中心音樂廳上演羅西尼的傑作《聖母悼歌》。
當晚的曲目十分多元化，足見羅西尼的文化影響力超越歐洲，甚至延伸至美洲；就以巴西為例，其國歌竟有意大利歌劇的影子。當晚其中一首作品，也就是巴西作曲家魏拉–羅伯士的第十首鳩羅曲，正好展示出這種影響，同時也結合了著名的巴西流行歌曲《Rasga o coração》(撕開我的心)。
當晚的開場曲是羅西尼的另一齣作品，即他的喜歌劇《阿爾及爾的義大利女郎》序曲，反映羅西尼時代的歐亞兩地之間已出現意想不到的文化交融。說到促進歐亞交流，羅西尼固然貢獻良多，不過香港也不遑多讓。
當晚獨唱者有女高音邱芷芊、女中音張吟晶、男高音顏嘉樂及男中音胡永正。擔任指揮的是香港巴赫合唱團音樂總監何博文。
The Hong Kong Bach Choir 