Diana Krall Live in Hong Kong: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Hong Kong)

A jazz night in an opera house

Diana Krall plays Hong Kong on November 13, 2026. Her stage is the Grand Theatre of the Xiqu Centre, a hall built for Cantonese opera rather than arena pop.

That choice matters. The Grand Theatre holds roughly a thousand seats across its stalls and balconies. Even the upper tiers sit close to the piano, which suits a singer who works in a near-whisper.

Krall is the Canadian pianist and singer from Nanaimo, British Columbia, behind albums such as The Look of Love, The Girl in the Other Room and This Dream of You. Her concerts usually lean on the Great American Songbook. She plays the piano herself, backed by a small band.

Finding the lantern on Canton Road

The Xiqu Centre opened in 2019 at the corner of Austin Road West and Canton Road. It sits at the eastern edge of the West Kowloon Cultural District. Its curved facade, designed by Revery Architecture with Ronald Lu & Partners, is meant to look like a Chinese lantern. The entrance is cut through it like a pair of parted stage curtains.

Getting there by rail:

• Austin Station (Tuen Ma Line): the nearest stop, a few minutes’ walk.
• Kowloon Station (Tung Chung Line and Airport Express): a covered walk via the Elements mall.
• Hong Kong West Kowloon Station: the high-speed rail terminus, directly across the road.

Concertgoers coming from Hong Kong Island usually take the Tuen Ma Line from Admiralty, or the Airport Express from Hong Kong Station to Kowloon.

Theatre manners at the Xiqu Centre

The Grand Theatre is a seated, formal room, and the audience treats it that way. Here is what attendees usually do:

• Tap in with an Octopus card on the MTR. It is also accepted at many kiosks and shops around the district.
• Treat the atrium as the meeting point. It is a large open hall under the lantern, so groups gather there rather than at the doors.
• Put phones away once the music starts. Hong Kong theatres generally prohibit photography and recording during performances, and ushers enforce it.
• Stay seated through the encore. Krall’s audiences tend to listen in silence and applaud between songs, not over them.

Afterwards the queue at the taxi stand on Austin Road West grows quickly. Many people walk to Kowloon Station or Austin Station instead.

Before and after the show

The district around the theatre is worth an afternoon. M+, the museum of visual culture, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum sit along the waterfront to the west. Between them, the Art Park lawns face Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong Island skyline.

Visitors staying overnight often choose Tsim Sha Tsui or the hotels above Kowloon Station. Both put the venue within one or two MTR stops.

For dinner, the Elements mall has a wide spread of restaurants under one roof. The streets of Jordan and Yau Ma Tei, east of Austin Station, are known for late-opening noodle shops and dai pai dong-style cooking.