Metropolitan Festival Orchestra

The Metropolitan Festival Orchestra (MFO) is Singapores first and only fully-independent professional symphony orchestra. With its roots in the acclaimed Singapore Festival Orchestra (SFO), resident orchestra of the Singapore Arts Festival from 2007 to 2012, the MFO was founded in 2013 as the spiritual successor of the SFO. Notable international collaborations include performances with the Korea National Opera, Tan Dun, Kitaro, Paul Anka and Il Divo. First-in-Singapore programmes include the Southeast Asian and Asian premieres of live-to-projection performances of Howard Shores full soundtrack score to the first 2 movies of the The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy; the Southeast Asian premiere of Disneys most successful live orchestra concert production Disney on Classic; collaborations with international pianist Lang Lang and other top Singaporean pop talents as part of the Sing50 mega-concert at the National Stadium; and the wildly-successfully Star Wars & Beyond concert exper...