MANILA, Philippines - Filipino music aficionados will be happy to know that the 23rd Macau International Music Festival is now in full swing and will end on Nov. 8.
Presented by Macau’s Cultural Affairs Bureau, with the full support of the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), the festival has gathered internationally renowned artists to Macau.
This season’s performances include opera, symphonic, choral and chamber music, as well as contemporary, folk, pop, fusion and jazz.
The performers included the Vienna Boys Choir; the Delfins, a pop-rock band from Portugal; and the Buraka Som Sistema, which works with Southwest African music and 21st century electronics to create a new sound.
Voice buffs were also regaled by famed Italian singers Dana Masiero and Elena Belfiore and a separate performance by the Prague Chamber Choir.
On the jazz front, the unique sound of the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band will be heard on Nov. 1, preceded on Oct., 28 by DJ Paul Miller of New York and electro jazz cellist/composer Dana Leong, also of New York.
This year, world music is represented by Venezuela’s Marco Granados and Argentina’s Pablo Zeigler Quintet, on Nov. 1.
On the same day, American songs of the past will be sung by the Hudson Shad Group of Chicago.
Closing the Festival on Nov. 6-8 is Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” by the San Francisco Opera.
More information on the 23rd Macau International Music Festival is available at the Cultural Affairs Bureau, www.icm.gov.mo/fimm, and tickets may be purchased online at www.macauticket.net. The hotline is (853) 8399-6699.