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SeAH Woon Hyung Lee Foundation to hold online concert Posted : 2021-03-09 16:08 Updated : 2021-03-14 17:38 Promotional poster for a performance of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by the SeAH Woon Hyung Lee Foundation, March 20 / Courtesy of SeAH Woon Hyung Lee Foundation By Kim Jae-heun The SeAH Woon Hyung Lee Foundation will bring Mozart s comic opera The Marriage of Figaro to the stage without a live audience March 20 as part of its Opera Bucket series at the Seoul Arts Center. The concert will be aired online on Naver TV and YouTube starting from 7 p.m. on the day. Opera Bucket concerts were first started in 2015 to inherit the will of Lee Woon-hyung, the late SeAH Group chairman and an avid opera fan. This year marks the sixth such concert to be held. ....
Annual Orchestra Festival to kick off March 30 Posted : 2021-03-02 18:03 Updated : 2021-03-02 18:36 The Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kim Dae-jin plays Beethoven s Symphony No. 5 at the Orchestra Festival at Seoul Arts Center in this July 29 photo. Courtesy of Seoul Arts Center By Park Ji-won The annual Orchestra Festival is set to showcase performances of classics by 21 regional orchestras across the nation at Seoul Arts Center almost every day starting March 30. The annual festival, which marks its 33rd anniversary this year, will present carefully chosen repertoires and soloists ranging from baroque masterpieces to contemporary works under the theme New Normal. The size of the venue is as large as that of 2012 when it also presented performances by 21 orchestras. The annual festival was launched in 1989 one year after of the opening of the Seoul Arts Center. ....
(Photo : Glorious Entertainment) South Korean total performer Lee Ho Won recently dropped by the SBS Power FM show Lee Joon s Youngstreet, sharing details about his comeback project. Lee Ho-won, also known as Hoya, plays the lead role in the musical Swag Age: Shout, Joseon! Set in a fictionalized Joseon Dynasty Korea, Ho-won brings Dan to life. In a strict society where Sijo is a matter of life or death, Dan is a cheonmin - or the lowest of commoners - who did not give up and continues to recite sijo. As a free-spirited poet, he clashes with Joseon s restrictive and elitist caste system. ....
Performing arts industry takes blow from strengthened social distancing in peak season Posted : 2020-12-10 09:09 By Kwon Mee-yoo The year s end is typically a big season for the theater industry, but the COVID-19 pandemic has marred this year s mood as the resurgence of infections has seen the tightening of social distancing rules, delivering a blow to theaters. With COVID-19 infections spiking, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency raising the alert level in early December, the Korea Performing Arts Box Office Information System (KOPIS) announced that the number of theatrical tickets sold so far this year was 66,000, approximately one fourth of the corresponding period last year of 1.1 million. ....