HK's Family Affair
The 39th Hong Kong Art Festival, to be held early next year, will be based on the topic of "family"
The art festival, considered to be Asia's best, began in 1973.
"We hope that people from Beijing and from all over the world will go to Hong Kong to enjoy the
different performances in our art festival,"Douglas Gautier, the festival's management director, said in a
press conference(发布会) in the capital.
In the 29 days of the festival, which runs from March 8 to April 7,2012, the audience can choose from 111 performances of 51 programmes given 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 shows.
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 Lang Lang, and saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
In order to increase attendance, hotels and airlines are offering discount packages along with art
festival ticket sales, most of which are at 20% and 30% cheaper.
For more information, please check:
1. The press conference was held ____.
A. in Hong Kong
B. in Europe
C. in Beijing
D. in England
2. By means of "discount packages", you can pay ___ .
A. nothing for the cost
B. less than the usual cost
C. for the air ticket but not for the festival ticket
D. for the festival ticket but not for hotel rooms
3. According to the text, we do NOT have any information about ____ .
A. who will perform on stage
B. what programmes there will be
C. when the 39th Art Festival will be held
D. which theatres will put on performances
4. The main purpose in writing this text is ___.
A. to make the 39th Art Festival known
B. to announce the plan of the art festival
C. to introduce the cost of the art festival
D. to sell a service during the art festival
