Celebrating Opera Today

Western Opera has being in existence for decades in Malaysia but since the establishment of KL City Opera, western opera productions have become a staple and regular feature in Malaysia’s Arts & Cultural landscape bringing diversity and which heightens Malaysians arts appreciation of operatic music and performances.

A gold award category holder of the Malaysian Choral Eisteddfod, an international choir festival, Kuala Lumpur City Opera Chorus has been invited to perform in many big stages including by the renowned Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and Singapore Lyric Opera. During YSDAF, they will be presenting the opening chorus from their upcoming opera production, “L’elisir D’amore” (The Elixir of Love), which they performed under The Eat, Sing & Travel People company in 2014 before they became KL City Opera.

Followed by La Traviata which they presented in 2019 and again this year in collaboration with Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra and MOV Asia from Korea at DFP. The next number is a Chinese dialect song, which they performed recently for a doctorate research presentation. Their YSDAF performance ends Bell Chorus, a piece which they wanted to perform just before the pandemic in collaboration with award winning choreographer, Kenny Shim but the show was cancelled. This year, they managed to perform this song in their gala concert at PJPAC.