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Beijing Music Festival Unveils 2023 Lineup

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The Beijing Music Festival has announced its 2023 season. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances. It opens with an opening concert featuring soprano Zhang Liping. Yang Yang conducts the China Philharmonic & Beijing Chinese Orchestra. Performance Date: Sept. 22, 2023 Yu Ji conducts the Chinese premiere of Haydn’s “Il Mondo della Luna” with a cast starring Yi Yang, {…}

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Young Concert Artists Unveils 2023-24 Season

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Young Concert Artists (YCA) revealed its 2023-2024 season, including debuts of four new artists in New York and a co-presentation with the New York Festival of Song. The season will feature YCA Auditions and a Winners Concert, both live-streamed, four noontime performances, and a grand finale at Carnegie Hall. Four YCA artists will also showcase their talent at the Kennedy {…}

Opera Meets Film

Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’

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Peter Sellars warned the crowd gathered in the Rubin Museum on a recent Friday night that the film would be long. “It’s only an hour and fifteen minutes,” he said. “But the beginning feels like several lifetimes.” At first, the caution was unnecessary. “this body is so impermanent,” a new film Sellars directed at the height of the pandemic, explores {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

San Francisco Opera 2021-22 Review: Dream of the Red Chamber

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(Credit: Cory Weaver) Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’s “Dream of the Red Chamber,” abundant with beauty, color, sound, and light, lifts the original tale from the 18th century novel by Cao Xueqin by setting it into a Buddhist/Confucianist perspective. Thus, while we recognize familiar societal obstacles that thwart Bao Yu and Dai Yu from their particular happiness and discover {…}

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Hui He to Debut at Shanghai Oriental Art Center

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Soprano Hui He is set to return to the Shanghai Oriental Art Center on Dec. 5, 2021 for an Italian concert. The concert will feature arias from “Tosca,” “Manon Lescaut,” “Pagliacci,” “Andrea Chenier,” “Turandot,” and “I Vespri Sicilianni.” The evening will also include music from “La forza del destino” and “Psyché et Eros” from César Franck’s symphonic poem “Psyché.” There {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall 2021 Review: AI Variation

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Hao Weiya’s one-act “AI Variation” is the operatic embodiment of a single idea: that the greatest danger posed by the rapid advance of technology is people who believe they control it. The work, by composer Hao Weiya and librettist Wang Yuanfei, tells the story of three people over the course of seven life-changing days, sometime in the not-so distant future. {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Soprano Elise Caluwaerts On Her Love For Mozart, Alma Mahler’s Songs and The Future of Opera

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(Credit: Lalo Gonzalez) Elise Caluwaerts simultaneously studied at the conservatories of Antwerp with Lucienne Van Deyck (classical singing) and Brussels (early music), followed by the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she graduated cum laude with Diane Forlano. She took master classes with Peter Kooij, Elly Ameling, David Wilson Johnson, Jozef De Beenhouwer and Gemma Visser. She also coached in {…}

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Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to Present World Premiere of ‘AI’s Variation’

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The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of Hao Weiya’s new science fiction chamber opera “AI’s Variation on Nov. 4-5, 2021 at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall. The opera, which was composed by Hao Weiya and Wang Yuanfei, will be directed by Zhang Jiemin and stars baritone Zhou Zhengzhong, mezzo-soprano Dong Fang, and soprano Jingling Li. The work {…}