Faith and Shadows: The Life of Caravaggio

This event is organized by Hong Kong Arts Festival

Date: 8 March 2026 (Sunday)
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm

The celebrated Italian ballet phenomenon, Roberto Bolle, honours an earlier Italian cultural icon, the painter Caravaggio, in the acclaimed contemporary ballet production Caravaggio.
Dr Elisabeth Berry Drago, lecturer in the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong, in this pre-performance talk reveals the mysteries behind Caravaggio’s most famous artworks, his techniques, hidden inspirations and the controversies that followed in his footsteps.
A matinee performance of the contemporary ballet Caravaggio will start at 4pm, soon after the conclusion of this talk, at the Grand Theatre in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

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