Hong Kong Arts Festival

In 1997 the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society celebrated its 25th
anniversary. The 1997 Festival was highly successful with over 94 000
tickets sold representing 91 per cent attendance and generating a record
$21 million in box office revenue. Highlights from this year's festival
included Tan Dun's boldly original new opera Marco Polo, two
programmes by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, a new dance piece by
Pina Bausch inspired by Hong Kong, the acclaimed production of A
Midsummer Night's Dream by the Royal Shakespeare Company,
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato by the Mark Morris Dance Group
and Chess Man by Beijing's Central Experimental Theatre.

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