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[…] continued in Shanghai, she also has a strong foundation in San Francisco, where she was a Merola Opera Program participant in 2018. After Merola, Zhang was selected to join the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program. This spring, she reprised Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Met and appeared as Thibault in that company’s new production of Verdi’s Don Carlos. Other recent credits include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Verbier Festival, concert appearances with the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra on tour throughout China and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts. Zhang joins the cast for Orpheus and Eurydice, which features countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński in his highly anticipated Company debut as Orpheus and soprano Nicole Heaston as Love (Amore). San Francisco Opera’s new production of Gluck’s setting of the Orpheus myth presents the work in its original 1762 Viennese edition for the first time in Company history. Director Matthew Ozawa heads the creative team of […]
2020-04-23 03:06:20
VC Artist Timothy Chooi performing contemporary Chinese composer Zhao Jiping’s Violin Concerto No. 1 – with conductor Jinnan Sima and the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra. Recorded live on the 7th of December, 2019 – in Chengdu, China. VC ARTIST TIMOTHY CHOOI | JIPING VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 | JINNAN SIMA & THE Sichuan Symphony Orchestra | 2019 The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2017-04-24 16:24:06
Uproar in China over incoming maestro
The Singaporean Darrell Ang was named last December as music director of the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, as part of a revitalisation plan with the Singapore Symphony. ‘I have the opportunity to shape this orchestra in my image,’ said Ang at the time, admitting he spoke very little Mandarin before flying in to China. We now hear from Rudolph Tang that he has fired two-fifths of the tutti players in what the musicians say was an unfair audition, run entirely by Ang and one other Singaporean, with no Chinese representation or any discussion with the musicians. Ang has made a statement saying the audition was ‘legal and justified… video and audio taped throughout’. The row has exploded onto Chinese social media. No Chinese orchestra has ever been treated this way before. photo: Darrell Ang, Facebook selfie
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