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The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra began in 1947 as the amateur Sino-British Orchestra and turned professional in 1974; it performed at the opening concert of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in 1989. Jaap van Zweden directed it from 2012 to 2024, and from 2015 it recorded Wagner's Ring for Naxos. The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Hong Kong Sinfonietta also receive public funding. Cantonese opera, practised in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, was inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.