OperaLab’s production of “La bohème”, first shown on the Star Ferry in a production for the Dante Alighieri Society and Peninsula Hong Kong, was re-imagined in a staged version at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on the eve of Puccini’s centenary, as part of the “Italia on Stage” festival.
The new “fairy-tale opera” production of Georges Bizet’s “Le docteur Miracle” with new music from Marco Iannelli opened at the Guangzhou Opera House on 30 September 2024.
The Guangzhou Opera House presented selections from their acclaimed productions of “Rita” and “Pomme d’Api” at the Kirine cultural complex in Guanghzhou.
Marco Iannelli’s new chamber ensemble score for Mozart’s eighth opera “La finta giardiniera”, commissioned by Hong Kong’s Musica Viva, had a typhoon-delayed premiere on 2 September 2023 at the Hong Hong City Hall.
The Chinese premiere of Jacques Offenbach’s “Pomme d’Api” opened on 30 June 2023 to a sold-out performance at the Guangzhou Opera House as part of the French Croisements Festival. Set locally in Guangzhou as the story of a small opera company putting on a production of Offenbach’s one-act operetta, this production was extended and adapted… Read more: Premiere of “Pomme d’Api” in Guangzhou
OperaLab’s “Pomme d’Api” has been adapted for a new run at the Guangzhou Opera House and part of the Croisements Festival. It includes a new score for chamber ensemble by Marco Iannelli, additional selections from “La Périchole” and a new “play-within-a-play staging”.