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The old bachelor Don Pasquale is wealthy but very stingy. He wants his nephew Ernesto to marry a lady from a rich family, and promises to leave him a large fortune. However, his nephew has fallen in love with a widow named Norina. In order to punish the rebellious Ernesto, Don Pasquale plans to get married and threatens to leave his nephew penniless. At that time, Dr. Malatesta suggests as a bride his own beautiful younger sister. The delighted Pasquale tells him to arrange a meeting at once. When Ernesto again refuses to marry a woman of his uncle's choice, Pasquale tells him that he will have to leave the house, then announces his own marriage plans to his astonished nephew. In fact, Dr. Malatesta’s sister is exactly the widow Norina, who is plotting on her and Ernesto's behalf, planning to impersonate the (nonexistent) bride named Sofronia and drive Pasquale to such desperation that he will be at their mercy.
When Pasquale meets with the timid Sofronia, he is enchanted by her beauty as decides to get married at once. And, as soon as the wedding contracted is sealed and Pasquale has signed over his fortune to his bride, Norina changes her act from demure girl to willful shrew. She leads an extravagant life style, has amassed a stack of bills and even drops a letter on purpose implying that she has a rendezvous with an unknown suitor.
JIAO Miao was graduated from the Conducting Department at China Conservatory of Music where she studied under Professor WU Lingfen, a renowned conductor. Currently, she serves as the Assistant Conductor of NCPA Chorus and the Conductor of NCPA Youth Chamber Chorus conductor.
While at college, JIAO Miao had participated in many master classes launched by Chinese and foreign experts and performed in France, Austria, Italy and other countries and regions multiple times. In addition, she also fully participated in the establishment of NCPA Chorus and Youth Chamber Chorus and attended the chorus rehearsals of such performances as Xi Shi, Carmen, La Traviata, and L'Elisir d'Amore in NCPA Opera Festival, NCPA August Chorus Festival, and large Music & Dance Epic Road to Revival. She has held a series of choral lectures in the Centre, which won her high comment from experts and audience.
Song Yuanming has performed in NCPA's productions including Die Fledermaus, Turandot, La Bohème, L'italian in Algeri, Rickshaw Boy and Willam Tell.
Song Yuanming graduates from Specialty of Opera & Light Opera and Art Song & Oratorio n University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She was instructed by Professor Franz Lukasovsky and obtains the highest degree of Excellent Artist Performing Major in Specialty of Sound and Opera. Meanwhile, she completed courses of Flute and graduates from Prayner Konservatorium Vienna. She served as Vocal Music Professor in School of Music in Shandong College of Arts. She won six international awards, including the First Prize in Toulouse International Vocal Music Contest in France, First Prize and Best Singer Prize in Dvorak International Vocal Music Contest in Czech. She played in Salzburg International Art Festival, Schoenbrunn Schlosstheater, Glaeserner SaalMagna Auditorium, Graz Opera in Austria, Seoul and Busan Art Center, and Karlovy Vary Opera House in Czech. She cooperated with famous conductors like Wiener Phiharmoniker, Moody, Barenboim, and Valery Gergiev. She played in Don Juan, Le Nozze di Figaro, etc. She will star Hu Ling’er in the original opera Yongle, and Leonora in opera Il Trovatore staged in Hong Kong this year.
NCPA Chorus was established on December 8, 2009, whose members were carefully selected from famous music schools in and out of China. Now the Chorus invites Wu Lingfen as the conductor, with many artists well-known in China and abroad giving instructions. Affiliated to NCPA, the highest palace of performing arts in China, the Chorus adheres to NCPA's guiding principles of 'for the people, for the arts, and for the world'. The Chorus mainly stages operas and concerts, and also takes part in kinds of cultural communication and arts outreach events.
Ever since its establishment, the Chorus has actively performed in more than 20 operas of NCPA production, such as NCPA's commission operas Xi Shi, The Chinese Orphan, and The Ballad of Canal, as well as other classical operas in and out of China: The White-Haired Girl, The Red Guards on Honghu Lake, Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in Algeri, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Otello, Der Fliegende Hollander, Lohengrin, Carmen, Turandot andTosca, etc. Its artistic quality receives rave acclaims from both the critics and the audience.
Besides operas, the Chorus has participated in many grand vocal works and themed concerts, such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mahler's Symphony No.2 and No.8, and the grand music and dance epic Road to Revive, etc. As NCPA's resident chorus, it has been to Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan to participate in performances and arts exchange, both to wide acclaims.
The Chorus has cooperated with many well-known artists ever since its establishment, receiving high praises from them all. Plácido Domingo once said it was his honor to cooperate with these talented young artists; Lorin Maazel ever praised it 'a chorus full of passion', so and so forth. On the stage of NCPA, the Chorus has cooperated with such directors as Francesca Zambello, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Chen Xinyi, Cao Qijing, Liao Xianghong, such conductors as Lorin Maazel, Daniel Oren, Lu Jia, Li Xincao, Zhang Guoyong, such vocalists as Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Inva Mula, Brandon Jovanovich, Dai Yuqiang, Wei Song, Warren Mok, He Hui, Dilbèr, Zhang Liping, to name just a few. With more than a hundred performances each year, the Chorus is surely to play an active role in the further development of NCPA.
China NCPA Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts of China (NCPA), balancing a busy and distinguished performance schedule with a reputation as one of China's most adventurous and dynamic orchestras. Established in March 2010, the orchestra is composed of distinguished musicians from around the world, performing more than a dozen operas, ballets and regular symphonic seasons every year. Lü Jia took up the post of Principal Conductor in February 2011, succeeding Chen Zuohuang, the current Laureate Conductor, NCPA's Music Artistic Director and also one of the founders of the orchestra. Yuan Ding was appointed assistant conductor in the same year.
The NCPA Orchestra demonstrates an abiding commitment to high levels of artistic excellence and prides itself on its long-term collaborations with the finest musicians of our day. Artists associated with the orchestra in the past two years include Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gunter Herbig, Gilbert Varga, Lang Lang, Stephen Kovacevich, Leo Nucci, Wang Yuja and Han-Na Chang. Maestro Lorin Maazel praised the orchestra as "a hard-working excellence with great passion" after a series of concerts and the NCPA's new La Traviata in June 2010.
In its first season of 2011, China NCPA Orchestra gained critical acclaim for its performances in NCPA's new productions of Tosca (directed by Giancarlo Del Monaco), The Barber of Seville (co-produced with Castleton Festival), Die Fledermaus, and a new composed opera The Chinese Orphan. Apart from that, the orchestra was also deeply involved in NCPA's 2011 Gustav Mahler Project. Under the batons of maestros including Christoph Eschenbach, Yoel Levi, Jun Maerkl and Chen Zuohuang, the orchestra completed Mahler's Symphonies No. 1, 2, 3, 8 and 10.
In the season of 2012, China NCPA Orchestra won a highly successful acclaim for two NCPA's new productions: Der Fliegende Hollander and Lohengrin, both Wagner's operas were Chinese Premiere. It continually collaborates with prominent musicians around the world for concert programs, including Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yan Pascal Tortelier and the legendary pianist Rudolf Buchbinder.
In addition to its extensive domestic performances, the NCPA Orchestra also received a widespread international praise in 2012. The orchestra was invited by Kissingen Summer Music Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in July 2012, and kicked off his first German tour in Nürnberg, Hamburg and Berlin under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach and Chen Zuohuang. This was followed by a successful concert at the Sydney Opera House with Maestro Chen Zuohuang in November.
In the season of 2013, the NCPA orchestra presents colorful programs on the commemoration of Wagner, Verdi and Britten, highlighting the Ring without words with 12 principals from Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Lorin Maazel. NCPA's new opera productions that the orchestra is involved include Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Otello and Nabucco, which features his second successful collaboration with Placido Domingo.
The NCPA orchestra aims to build up a world-class orchestra with operation and management conforming to global practices while incorporating Chinese characteristics. Devoted to educational and outreach activities, the Orchestra also has presented a series of Weekend Matinee Concerts since its establishment. With specially selected repertoire, performances of high quality and extremely low ticket prices, these concerts have won great acclaim from both audience and critics. The orchestra is now embarking on a similar path with the complete Beethoven symphonies with Maestro Lü Jia.
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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.