Lo chairs the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong, the city's largest pro-business party. He and Yu announced their engagement in a media event at the party's headquarters, where they also performed a short Cantonese opera piece together. They first met decades ago, when Yu was a primary school student who had won a Cantonese opera competition. Lo's late wife introduced them. That wife, Adelina Wong Siu-chun, died five years before the engagement.


A shared stage


Cantonese opera is the thread running through the relationship. It is a demanding art form that takes years of vocal and physical training, and it is what brought them together then and now.


Bottom line: The couple have said they are going ahead regardless of public opinion. Whatever people think of the match, a former lawmaker and a rising opera star are now husband and wife.