HK's family affair
The 32nd Hong Kong Art Festival, to be held early next year, will be based on the theme of “family”.
The art festival, considered to be Asia's best, was launched in 1973.
“We hope that people from Beijing and from all over the world will go to Hong Kong to enjoy the multiple performances in our art festival,” Douglas Gautier, the festival's management director, told a press briefing in the capital.
In the 34 days of the festival, which runs from February 8 to March 7, 2004, the audience can choose from 111 performances of 51 programmes staged by 700 foreign performers, 450 local artists and 160 actors from the mainland.
Programmes vary from classical music, jazz, world music, Western and Peking opera, drama and dance to outdoor spectaculars.
The programmes include Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio, Shakespeare’s drama Romeo and Juliet, the ballet Mozartina and African dances, to name just a few.
The lineup (阵容) includes the English Touring Theatre, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Zurich Ballet, the Spanish National Dance Troupe, as well as Europe Galante, the Petersen Quartet, pianists Angela Hewitt, and arc-Andre Hamelin, and saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
In an effort to increase attention, hotels and airlines are offering discount packages along with art festival ticket sales.
For more information, please check www.hk.artsfestival.org.
小题1:The press briefing must have been held ______.
A．in Hong Kong
B．in Europe
C．in Beijing
D．in Zurich小题2:By means of "discount packages", you can pay ______.
A．more than the usual cost
B．less than the usual cost
C．for the air ticket but not for the festival ticket
D．for the ticket but not for hotel rooms小题3:We do NOT have any information about ______.
A．what programmes there will be
B．in which theatres there will be performances
C．who will perform
D．when the festival will be held小题4:Where is this material from?
A．Literature Magazine
B．Textbook
C．Website www.hk.artsfestival.org.
D．Newspaper
