About the event
Premiered at the New Vision Arts Festival 2014 with high reputation, Our Immortal Cantata was awarded with The Best Original Music & Lyrics, The Best Sound Design and also one of The Best Productions of the Year at the 26th Hong Kong Drama Awards!
Spectacular music and literature have been written for men and women who committed suicides in the name of love. The Butterfly Lovers, Romeo and Juliet, Madame Butterfly, Princess Changping and her consort Zhou Shixian as well as Yu Fa and her lover Sub Yee Siu are all up against each other in The Greatest Suicide For Love, an underworld contest not unlike The Voice. Through song and dance, cat fights and most of all, a divine belief in their sacrifices, these neither folks hold nothing back to claim the winning title and be truly immortalized.
Performers
Raoul Chan, Mischa Ip, Rick Lau, Anna Lo, Ma Hin Yung, Alvin Mui, Ronald Tsang, Avery Wong*, Keith Wong, Nick Yam
Creative and Production Team
Concept/Composer/Music Director：Leon Ko
Playwright/Lyricist：Chris Shum
Director：Yuri Ng
Arrangers：Leon Ko, Anna Lo
Choral Director：Anna Lo
Assistant Director：Fiona Yim+
Sound Designer：Candog Ha
Lighting Designer：Mak Kwok Fai
Set Designer：Isaac Wong
Costume Designers：Gauze Lam, Yuri Ng
Cinematographer：Ziv Chun
Production Manager：Gloria Ngai
Graphic Designer：Pengguin
Yat Po Singers' Co-Artistic Directors
Ng Cheuk Yin, Anna Lo
*2023/24 The Arts Talents Internship Matching Programme is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council
+With the kind permission of Blue Hour Theatre
Reputation
“The re-run is just as amazing as the premiere! … So glad to see a local Hong Kong theatre production like this.”
“With humor and wit, it deconstructs a series of classic love tragedies and brings them to life with a modern touch.”
“Our Immortal Cantata is a well-developed and highly polished production, that has a tight storyline, smooth transitions between songs, dialogue, and movement, and impressive singing.”
“After watching Our Immortal Cantata, I couldn’t help but reflect—what is the nature of love? And what does it really mean to die for love?”
Enquiries
Tel：+852 2154 4233
Email：info@yatposingers.org
Remarks
-Recommended for ages 6 or above.
-Programme duration is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
-Yat Po Singers reserves the right to change the programme and artists.
-The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
-Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
-The premiere of this production was presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services -Department.
-Commissioned by Yat Po Singers Limited in 2014 with partial sponsorship from CASH Music Fund.
About the organizer
Yat Po Singers
The first professional A Cappella choral theatre company in Hong Kong. The founding Co-Artistic Directors are Patrick Chiu, Ng Cheuk-yin and Yuri Ng. Currently led by Ng Cheuk-yin and Anna Lo as the Co-Artistic Directors, the Company focuses on producing and developing original works in order to promote A Cappella art and demonstrate the innovative interaction of music and theatre. Besides, the Company aims at enriching the arts scene particularly by nurturing young composers and artists, audience building and arts education.
The Company’s first A Cappella theatre production Rock Hard received the CASH Golden Sail Music Award in the Best Serious Composition category from the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong in 2009. In 2015, the Company received the Award for Arts Promotion from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Another A Cappella theatre work, Our Immortal Cantata (Re-run), was awarded The Best Original Music & Lyrics, The Best Sound Design and also one of The Best Productions of the Year by the 26th Hong Kong Drama Awards in 2017. In 2019, the Company’s collaboration with City Contemporary Dance Company Requiem HK was awarded the Outstanding Large Venue Production. In 2020, Love, Death, and Everything In-between, was awarded The Best Lyrics by the 29th Hong Kong Drama Awards. In 2024, Om Encounter was awarded The Best Original Music (Musical) by the 32nd Hong Kong Drama Awards.
Yat Po Singers is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.