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Rock Symphony concert celebrates Opera House’s founding

The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will host the Rock Symphony at the HCM City Opera House on January 9 night.
Rock Symphony concert celebrates Opera House’s founding ảnh 1Singers and musicians of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will perform at the Rock Symphony concert in HCM City on January 9 night to welcome Lunar New Year (Photo courtesy of the producer)

HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The Ho Chi MinhCity Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will host the RockSymphony at the HCM City Opera House on January 9 night.        

The annual concert celebrates the Opera House’s119th founding anniversary and ushers in the Lunar New Year.

It will feature rock music by dozens of singersand musicians who will perform popular foreign pieces.

The show will open with BohemianRhapsody and We Are the Champions by Queen, a Britishrock band that formed in London in 1970.   

Both songs will be performed by HBSO singerswith the support of the orchestra and choir under conductor Le Phi Phi.

Phi graduated from the Moscow TchaikovskyConservatoire. After graduation, he became the conductor of the MacedonianPhilharmonic Orchestra from 1993 to 2000.

He has performed with the Macedonian NationalSymphony Orchestra, Macedonian Ballet Theatre, the Symphony Orchestra of thecity of Nis in Serbia, the Vietnam National Opera Ballet and HBSO.

He has toured in Macedonia, Russia, France,Germany, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Albania and Bulgaria.

Since 1995, Phi has worked with the twoVietnamese orchestras to organise concerts. He has also helped connect overseasVietnamese artists with local organisers. Phi works as a music teacher at the MacedonianCentre of Opera and Ballet.

The concert will continue with disco songs fromthe 1980s, including Fantasy’s You’re Too Late, Deodato’s Keepon Movin’ and Curtis Hairston’s I Want You All Tonight.

Sting’s Englishman in New York, PinkFloyd’s Another Brick in the Wall and Bee Gees’ How Deepis Your Love will be also included.

Songs by famous bands The Beatles, ABBA andBoney M.will also be featured. Twist and Shout, Waterloo and Medley willbe played by the orchestra and choir.

The concert will begin at 20:00 tonight at theHCM City Opera House at 7 Lam Son Square in District 1. Tickets are availableat the box office.-VNS/VNA  
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