7.30 am Producer and co-director of a brand new “Bach im Theater” production, Patrick Chiu, talks about the staging of the St.Mark Passion, BWV 247, reconstructed and conducted by Matthew Halls. It will combine vocal, choral and early music, as well as physical movement and theatrical elements, to depict a choral masterpiece from a contemporary angle recounting the death of Jesus

     
8.30 am Undercover OPERAtive Laurence Scofield tells us why Opera is so revolutionary with examples from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, and Puccini's Tosca

     
9.20 am  Flamenco and Classical guitarist/composer Adam del Monte, talks about his recently composed first-of-its-kind flamenco opera, Llantos: his eclectic awareness of jazz, world music and other contemporary forms which have led to his new, creative renditions of flamenco repertoire; and on his concert with the Shenzhen Fugue Altamira Guitar Ensemble