With over 70 performances staged by artists from various nations, the 21st Macao Arts Festival is set to bring the latest creative trends on world stages to the island city in May, the Macao's Cultural Institute announced on Thursday.

The Festival, organized by the Cultural Institute, will bring together theater, dance, music, circus, multimedia and visual arts by artists from Macao, Portugal, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Finland, Peru, Cuba, the United States, Canada and Australia, according to the Institute.

Since the Cantonese Opera has been officially inscribed on the UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009, the Red Silk Romance, a Cantonese Opera performed by the Macao General Association of Chinese Opera, has been selected as the opening program of the Festival.

Aside from local opera, famous German breakdancer Storm and Brazilian hip hop dance group Discipulos do Ritmo will present the Geometronomics showing the creative abstractions from the everyday movements of normal people.

Music also will make a substantial contribution to the Festival, as the Macao Chinese Orchestra and the Macao Orchestra will respectively present their classical music and Jazz concerts during the festival period.

Australian oddball Kransky Sisters will also share their music version of darkly funny stories with local audiences, while American multi-awarded entertainer and tap dancer Movin' Melvin Brown, will explore the lives, times, hardships and triumphs of two of the greatest black entertainers, Ray Charles and Sammy Davis Jr., along with his own in the show Me, Ray Charles and Sammy Davis Jr..

In addition to indoor performances, the arts event also features outdoor performances, exhibition, workshop and relevant conferences with the aim to promote arts in Macao, according to the Institute.

The Macao Arts Festival has gradually become cherished part in the year-to-year lives of the people of Macao, and it has honored that role by making continuous improvements and enriching its contents over the past 21 years, said Ung Vai Meng, president of the Institute.

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