As the year-end holiday season approaches, the Shanghai performance market will be in full bloom, ushering in a series of blockbuster performances. On December 17, conductor Chen Xieyang, singers Liao Changyong and Huang Ying, and the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra held a classical music feast at the newly opened Bank of Communications Qiantan 31 Performing Arts Center, giving the audience a rich "New Year's gift."
Conductor Chen Xieyang has led the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, conducted concerts by three of the world's top tenors at the Forbidden City, and collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma to record the soundtrack for the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" that won the Oscar for Best Film. Music Awards.
Chen Xieyang
Liao Changyong won three consecutive championships in international vocal competitions within one year, including the 41st Toulouse International Vocal Competition, the Domingo World Opera Competition and the Queen Sonja International Vocal Competition of Norway. Huang Ying is a world-renowned lyric coloratura soprano whose artistic career covers opera, concerts, television, movies, and records. As the first Chinese singer to play the leading role in an opera film, she won worldwide fame with her wonderful performance in "Madama Butterfly". Huang Ying is not only good at singing Western operas, but is also committed to spreading Chinese voices and has performed many Chinese opera works such as "The Peony Pavilion" and "The Legend of the White Snake".
Liao Changyong
Huang Ying
Performed on December 17, Chen Xieyang, Liao Changyong, and Huang Ying joined hands with the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra to present repertoire of different styles. Liao Changyong will perform excerpts from the Chinese song "Father's Grassland and Mother's River" and the opera "The Barber of Seville", while Huang Ying will perform excerpts from the song "Maira" and the opera "La Boheme". In the concert, Liao Changyong and Huang Ying will collaborate again to present the aria "Let's Walk Hand in Hand" from Mozart's most famous opera "Don Giovanni", leading the audience to explore the romantic artistic conception of the fusion of Chinese and Western arts.
Suzhou Symphony Orchestra
The concert will be performed by the young Suzhou Symphony Orchestra. This professional symphony orchestra was established in 2016 by Suzhou City and Suzhou Industrial Park. It has nearly 80 outstanding musicians from 18 countries and regions. .
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth, the young people of the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chen Xieyang, used their understanding of music to inject new meaning into Rachmaninoff’s classic “Symphony No. 2 in E minor” vitality. The concert will also present Guan Xia’s orchestral piece "Sea of Stars", bringing diversified artistic enjoyment to the audience.
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