Filipino music afficionados in Pangasinan will be happy to know that the 23rd Macau International Music Festival is now in full swing and will end on November 8.

Presented by Macau’s Cultural Affairs Bureau, with the full support of the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), the festival has gathered internationally renowned artists to Macau to perform opera, symphonic, choral and chamber music, as well as contemporary, folk, pop, fusion and jazz.

Slated to perform are: The Vienna Boys Choir  (Oct. 25); the Delfins, a pop-rock band from Portugal, (Oct. 26); the Buraka Som Sistema with their Southwest African music and 21st century electronics; Italian singers Dana Masiero and Elena Belfiore, and the Prague Chamber Choir (Oct 27).; DJ Paul Miller and electro jazz cellist/composer Dana Leong, both from New York, (Oct. 28); and the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band (Nov.1).

World music by Venezuela’s Marco Granados and Argentina’s Pablo Zeigler Quintet and the Hudson Shad Group of Chicago will be presented on Nov. 1.

Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” by the San Francisco Opera will end the festival on November. 6-8.

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