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LÜ Jia has been conductor of NCPA's productions including Turandot, La Boheme, The Village Teacher, The Chinese Orphan, L'elisir d'Amore, Tosca, Der Fliegende Hollander, Un Ballo in Maschera and The Ballad of Canal.
LÜ Jia is the opera director of NCPA, principal conductor of NCPA Orchestra, music director & chief conductor of the Macao Orchestra, and artistic director of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Spain. Mr. LÜ has been the Music Director of the Arena di Verona, the world's largest open-air opera theater, and principal conductor for the Trieste Opera, Tuscany Regional Orchestra in Florence, Lazio Chamber Orchestra in Rome, and Sweden's Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra. He has also been a frequent guest conductor with the Hallé Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in England, the Dortmund Opera House in Germany, and the Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra in Italy.
Mr. LÜ has conducted two thousand concerts and operas in Europe and the Americas, and has cooperated with more than one hundred opera houses and orchestras, including the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and La Scala in Milan, as well as opera houses in Lausanne, Turin, Rome, Naples, Verona, Venice, Florence, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. He has also worked with the Berlin Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Italy's RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Rome's Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, England's City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Norway's Oslo Philharmonic, Lyon National Orchestra in France, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, all the major orchestras in Australia, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Opera has always played a special role in LÜ Jia's career. In Italy and Germany, homelands of the European opera tradition, he has directed nearly fifty operas. As the first Asian conductor to serve as director of a nationally-recognized opera company in Italy, he was praised by one Italian music critic as 'a conductor who understands Italian opera even better than Italians do'. In September of 1989, he won First Prize and the Judges' Prize in the 'Antonio Perdrotti' International Conducting Competition in Italy, which is his entrée into a conducting career. In 1998, he conducted Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera La Traviata, which was recognized as the best conducting performance in Italy's Macerata Opera Festival. In 2005, in recognition of LÜ Jia's prominent contribution to Italy's music culture, he was awarded the President's Cup by the President of the Italia, Giorgio Napolitano. In 2008, the La Gazza Ladra conducted by Lü Jia was named Best Opera of the Year in the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in Italy.
WANG Hongyao once sang roles of many operas presented by NCPA, including Nicklausse and La Muse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Mercedes in Carmen, Angelina in Cinderella, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. As a student of Professor Guo Shuzhen, she is now a young singing teacher of Xinghai Conservatory of Music. She once won the outstanding professional singer award in the National Youth TV Vocal Music Contest (Liaoning area), the first prize in the group of professional candidates of National Youth TV Vocal Music Contest (Shanghai area), the first prize and new promising singer award in the 5th Taipei Worldwide Chinese Vocal Music Contest, and the third place in the 4th China (Ningbo) International Vocal Music Contest.
She has appeared in the performances and tours of many operas such as Carmen, La Clemenza Di Tito, La Traviata, Die ZauberFlote, and so on. She once sang Giuseppe Verdi's Messa di Requiem in the Hong Kong City Hall together with the Hong Kong Oratorio Society. She also sang Handel's cantata Messiah during arts exchanges activities with Hong Kong Baptist University. Her singing of religious works in the Macau Christmas Concert conducted by Yip Wing-sie received wide recognition. She also had great performances in the International Music Week celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Mozart's Birth, Beijing Modern Music Festival, and more other events.
LIU Ying is a vocal music professor in Music Performance Department of South China Normal University. She graduated from Xinghai Conservatory of Music with Master's Degree, who ever studied under the tutelage of Professor YANG Yan (famous tenor and Dean of Vocal Music Department of Xinghai Conservatory of Music). In 2004, 2009 and 2013, she won three Awards of the Chinese Music "Golden Bell Award".
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Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.
Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.