[Source: Sichuan News] Sichuan News Reporter Xue Weirui On the evening of September 6, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra Artistic Director Hong Yiquan joined hands with the famous bass baritone singer Li Ao and the entire orchestra’s artists to perform for the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra

Sichuan News Reporter Xue Weirui

On the evening of September 6, Hong Yiquan, the artistic director of the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, joined hands with the famous bass baritone singer Li Ao and the entire orchestra’s artists to perform for the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra’s 2024-2025 “Tianfu Sichuan·Land of Music” The symphony music season has begun.

Concert scene. Photo courtesy of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra

In the first half of the concert, Li Ao sang four classic opera arias by Rachmaninov, Handel, Rossini and Gounod, showing his beautiful and expressive singing The beauty of opera art allows the audience to feel the charm of "bass-baritone". The last season of the Sichuan Music Festival ended with Mahler, and this season begins with Mahler. The highlight of the second half is Gustav Mahler's most "out-of-the-circle" work, "Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor". Season prologue. As a popular piece on the modern symphony stage, this piece has the largest number of recordings among Mahler's works, and it is also a work that can test the strength of the symphony orchestra.

It is understood that the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra will join hands with more than 40 first-line conductors, performers, and singers at home and abroad for the 2024-2025 "Tianfu Sichuan·Land of Music" symphony music season to entertain music fans at the Sichuan Provincial Culture and Art Center Concert Hall. Bringing 24 season concerts.