Acclaimed for his spectacular scenery sets as well as for his special way to use the lights, Hugo de Ana is a regular guest at world's most prestigious opera houses. His career started as Technical Director and Executive Producer at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, staging operas such as Turandot, Werther, Don Carlo, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Medea and The Rake's Progress. Then he moved to Santiago de Chile where he staged Roméo et Juliette, Lucrezia Borgia, Don Carlo and Les contes d'Hoffmann receiving for three consecutive years the critics' price as the best director.

Soon he started his collaboration with Teatro de la Zarzuela, in Madrid, and the Liceu Opera Theatre in Barcelona, where he signed works such as Armida, Andrea Chénier, Die Walküre, La Bohème, Ermione, and Otello. He made his Italian debut in 1990 staging Mosè in Egitto in Bologna. Since that moment he started to collaborate with the most important Italian theatres: Teatro La Scala in Milan (Lucrezia Borgia, Samson et Dalila, La forza del destino and Il Trovatore), Teatro Regio in Turin (Manon Lescaut), Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Mosè in Egitto), Teatro dell'Opera in Rome (Ermione,Werther, Respighi's Marie Victoire, La Fiamma, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mascagni's Iris), Arena di Verona (Nabucco, Les contes d'Hoffman), Rossini Opera Festival (Semiramide), Teatro la Fenice in Venice (Carmen), as well as the theatres of Genoa, Catania and Parma.Hugo de Ana He staged La Sonnambula at Santander's International Festival during the summer 2007.  

He worked also with the Deutsche Opera Berlin (Don Carlo), the Covent Garden in London (Lucrezia Borgia, Don Carlo), Seville Opera House (Aida), Tel Aviv Opera house (Tosca). He signed also, amongst the others, productions as: Le Cid in Seville and Washington, Simon Boccanegra in Parma,Turandot, L'elisir d'amore and Norma in Tokio. completing the Faust opera cycle also including Berlioz's La damnation de Faust and Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust. During 2008 and 2009, he made a number of new productions: La Favorita in Chile, Medea in Turin, Aida in Padua, LaTraviata in Maribor. His latest work has been Lehár's La Vedova Allegra in Padua. He gained great success directing Senso for the opening night season 2011 at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In the next future he will direct: La Traviata and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena in Verona; Attila at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. 

Born in Buenos Aires, Hugo de Ana graduated at Ernesto de la Corcova Arts School as professor in visual arts and custom design for TV and cinema. Right after graduation, he lectured at the Universidad de la Plata.  

Hugo de Ana has recently directed Gounod's Faust at the Teatro Regio in Parma,In 1997, he was awarded the Abbiati Prize, for his stage direction of Iris, Turandot and Les contes d'Hoffman as well as in 2001 thanks his Stage Direction of Don Carlo at the Teatro Real in Madrid as the best stage direction, scenography and costume design. In 2002 he won the Opera Award for La forza del destino and two years later for Gounod's Faust.

Sergio Metalli was born in Rimini in 1956 and he is dedicated to his passion for electronics that bring him to choose studies along those lines.

His versatility led him to perform collaborations in all areas at the highest levels like the State television, to have daily collaborations with artists like Dario Fo, Tonino Guerra, Mietta Corli, Hugo de Ana, Nicolas Joel, Ezio Frigerio, Josep Maria Flotats, Lindsay Kemp, Pier'Alli, Gianni Quaranta, Raffaele Curi, Lluis Pasqual, José Carlos Plaza, Tito Egurza, Margherita Palli, Luca Ronconi, William Landi, Peter Stein, Vladimir Vasiliev and many others passing from international conferences until the Theatre which he has a very special feeling.

In over a decade of successful career he has made over 360 productions and he has worked with major opera theatres around the world.

Mattia Metalli enters the world of digital at the end of the '90s, becoming one of the youngest Avid editors in Europe.

The great passion combined with his creativity, led him to deepen his knowledge in the world of editing, compositing and 3D graphics.

Over the years, the experience, led him to collaborate with his father, Sergio Metalli, to the realization of many projects in the most important Opera Houses in the world, alongside the greatest directors and set designers at the: Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Opera House in Astana ,Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, LA Opera in Los Angeles, Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, Royal Opera House in Muscat and in the most prestigious Italian Theaters as Teatro alla Scala in Milano, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Teatro dell Opera in Roma, Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, and many others.

Having studied classic and modern dance in the famous Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Alessandra Panzavolta continued her study in and graduated from Royal Academy of Dance in London under the artistic direction of Ms. Margot Fonteyn. While studying music, she also obtained the bachlor’s degree in foreign langauge and the humanities. She became a solo dancer when she was 15, and debuted in Tavolo Verde of Joss in Teatro Filarmonico. She has performed in many events and tours in foreign countries in three years mainly including theatres in Italy and Europe. In 1990, she was recommended by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities of Italy to perform as the dance representative of Italy in tours from Milan, Rome to Morocco, New York, Moscow and Tokyo. She started her career as a choreographer in Rome Opera House where she cooperated with such artists as Pistoni, North, Kokkos, Pieralli, Pizzi and Laganá. In 1995, she co-authored  El Retablo di Maese Pedro and Il Cordovano in Reggio Emilia with Sagi, and re-staged Massenet's opera Werther in the same place. From 1996 to 1997, she was invited to attend the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and Wexford Opera Festival, and directed Carmen for tour performance. In 1998, she participated inMacbeth directed by Riccardo Muti to celebrate the 220 years' inauguration of Teatro alla Scala. In 1999, she re-staged I Capuleti e i Montecchi for Politeama Theatre in Lecce and Il Barbiere di Sivigliaand Le Nozze di Figaro under the cooperation with José Luis Castro and Maestranza Theatre in Siviglia. Between 1995 and 1999, she worked as the Artistic Director of Italy Professional Dance School and a sign language teacher in the mime and drama department of Universitá Cattolica in Milan. Since 2001, she has been the production director of Maestranza Theatre in Siviglia, and involved in direction and chereography. She recently worked in Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Comunale in Modena and Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Native of Kyjov, Czech Republic, Bronislav Procházka studied piano at the Brno Conservatory and at the Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and then conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.  

As a pianist, he has accompanied instrumental players and, above all, singers. He has worked on a regular basis with the sought-after Dutch singing teacher Margreet Honig and has been engaged as a recital and master-class accompanist of the soprano Gabriela Benacková. 

He was head music coach and conductor in Plzen, vocal coach and conductor in Passau, and vocal coach and chorus master in St. Gallen.  

He has lectured at the Prague Conservatory, and has been solo voice coach at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and conducting class at the Plzen Conservatory. 

Currently he is assistant conductor and vocal coach in residence at the National Theater in Prague and works with many international opera houses including the Semperoper Dresden, Oper Frankfurt, La Monnaie Brussels, Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, Norwegian National Opera Oslo, Opera Narodowa Warsaw, Israeli Opera Tel Aviv and others. 

Described as “a singer who possesses the gift of heaven” by soprano Montserrat Caballé, Azerbaijani soprano Dinara Alieva – winner of the 2007 international Maria Callas competition – joined the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as soloist in 2010, where she has sung lead roles in many seminal works of the operatic literature. She has since appeared at major opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, including the Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera and Frankfurt Opera, among others. She has performed under the batons of conductors such as Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Spivakov, Tugan Sokhiev, Constantine Orbelian, Donald Runnicles, Marcello Rota, Marco Armiliato and Daniel Oren.  

Following a triumphant 2011 debut with the Vienna State Opera as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Ms Alieva returned to the house as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and Mimi in La Bohème, a role she has also performed at Frankfurt Opera and Semperoper Dresden. Highlights of the 2015 season include her appearances in recital at the Annecy Classic Festival and in Lolanta at the Bolshoi Theatre. In the fall of 2015, she established the first International Opera Art Festival in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The festival’s five concerts featured performances of Tchaikovsky’s Lolanta and Verdi’s La Traviata (in concert performance), a Verdi Gala celebrating the great composer’s anniversary and a Puccini Gala, along with Neapolitan songs and Spanish zarzuelas. As an accomplished recitalist and concert performer, she has also appeared at venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Salle Gaveau in Paris, and Cadogan Hall in London.  

Ms Alieva’s discography on Delos includes Alieva and Antonenko, a CD of arias and duets with Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Constantine Orbelian; and a DVD, Dinara Alieva in Moscow, as well as Pace, Mio Dio, a CD of Italian opera arias. Her first recording, Russian Songs and Arias, is on the Naxos label.  

She has performed in NCPA's productions of A Village Teacher, La Bohème, Carmen, The Chinese Orphan, and Les contes d'Hoffmann.

Zhou graduated from Central Conservatory of Music where she has studied with Yang Xiaoping and serves as soloist of PLA's General Political Department Opera Troupe, gaining in popularity in recent years. In 2007, she won recognition in the training program run by the Central City Opera House, Colorado, U.S. in the summer of 2007, receiving full scholarship and was invited to participate in the world premiere of Poet Li Bai composed by Chinese composer Guo Wenjing. It is worth mentioning that she succeeded in holding recitals in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan and won an award in Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition, came in first and won Anna and John J Sie award in Carlo Bergorzi Maestro Class, the golden prize in China Gold Bell Award Bel Canto Group and the second prize in Wenhua Vocal Competition awarded by Ministry of Culture.

Zhou performed as the soprano soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with German Philharmonic Orchestra during its China tour, in Beethoven Symphony No.9 conducted by Lorin Maazel as a soprano cantor and in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy as thesoprano cantor. Additionally, she sang the role of Mimi in La Bohème byPuccini, starred Yang Caihong in A Village Teacher, the NCPA's first realistic opera, and appeared as Micaela in Carmen by Georges Bizet and Princess in NCPA's Chinese Orphan. She also sang the role of Antonia in NCPA's production of Offenbach's opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann.

Peter Berger was born in Slovakia, and studied singing at The Kosice Conservatorium of Music with Mr. Juraj Somorjai. While still a student, he appeared as a soloist at the Kosice State theatre. He has taken part in Vocal Masterclasses with many renown teachers, including Peter Dvorsky, Eva Blahová, and Ryszard Karczykowski.

Recent engagements include Laca/Jenufa at Scottish National Opera and Danish National Opera, Prince/Rusalka in Santiago and Tokyo; performing Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass and Dvorak’s Te Deum under Jaroslav Kyzlink with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and singing Boris/Katja Kabanova with the Danish National Opera. 

In addition to his operatic work, Peter Berger is a prolific concert artist, and has sung with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the State Philharmonic Kosice, Prague Philharmonia, Brno Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Czech Virtuosi. He has performed in many domestic and foreign concerts as well as being a permanent guest at the festival “Viva il Canto“ in Czeszyn, Poland and at the international festival in Sopron, Hungary. His concert repertoire includes the Glagolitic Mass, Puccini’s Messa Di Gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, the Mozart Requiem and Masses as well as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. He sang in a gala concert with Jelena Obraztsova and Peter Dvorsky, and concert performances have also taken him to Japan, Malta, and Riga.

In 2006, he was awarded the 1st prize at The Mikulás Schneider-Trnavsky International Vocal Competition in Trnava (SK) and also won a special prize for the best interpretation of Mikulás Schneider-Trnavsky songs. In 2007 he was awarded the 1st prize at the Anglo Czecho-Slovak Trust competition in London, and in 2008, he was a semi-finalist at International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Vienna. He was also awarded The Slovak Literary fund prize for the role of the Prince in Rusalka.

Die Presse praises tenor Lasidlav Elgr’s “fearless singing, not only mastering the treacherous high tessitura of his part, but meeting the vocal demands with radiant fervor” in recent performances of Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez. This season he returns to Boris in Kát'a Kabanová at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Albert Gregor in Věc Makropulos with Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Don Jose in Carmen at Theater Saint Gallen. He also sings his first performances of Jimmy Mahoney in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in a return to Opera Vlaandaren and Dionysus in Henze’s The Bassarids with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

The tenor’s recent performances also include the Prince in Rusalka with the Grand Théatre de Genève, Glyndebourne Festival Tour, and at the Concertgebouw; Albert Gregor in Věc Makropulos and Froh in Das Rheingold with Teatro la Fenice; Steva Buryja in Jenufa with Deusche Oper Berlin; Janek in Věc Makropulos with Opéra de Paris; Babinsky in Weinberger’s Svandadudák with the Semperoper Dresden; Sergei in Lady Macbeth of Mtensk with Opera Vlaandaren; and Leukippos in Daphne with Finnish National Opera.

With the Volksoper Wien, he sang including Tamino in Die Zauberflote, Don José in Carmen, Narraboth in Salome, Alfredo in La Traviata, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lorenzo in Fra Diavolo, and August Kuhbrot in Kunnecke’s Der Vetter aus Dingsda. A former member of the ensemble of the Staatsoper Hamburg, Mr. Elgr has since returned to the company for Froh in Das Rheingold, which he has recorded under the baton of Simone Young for Oehms Classics. He sang the Priest and First Armed Man in Die Zauberflote in Jonathan Miller’s production at the Teatro la Fenice as well as at the Macerata Festival with Pier-Luigi Pizzi directing and Licinio in Mercadante’s La vestale (available on the Naxos label) at Wexford Festival Opera. With the Prague National Theater, he sang Vasek in The Bartered Bride, Mascaron in Martinu’s Miracles of Mary, and four tenor roles in Janácek’s The Adventures of Mr. Broucek under the baton of Charles Mackerras (available as a commercial recording).

Acclaimed as theatrically 'cinematic' (Classique News) with 'indisputable stage presence' (Classique Info) and 'impeccable' technique (Opera News) Canadian bass-baritone, Nathan Berg has had a wide ranging career alternating from his love of song to concert and opera in a vast range of styles and time periods. Much of Mr. Berg's early work in concert and opera concentrated largely on the Baroque and Classical with repeated collaborations with groups such as Les Arts Florissants. In 2015 he made his debut at La Scala in Milan in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s CO2. As a recitalist he has appeared at the Wigmore Hall in London, Lincoln Center in New York and many other prestigious venues around the world with pianists such as Graham Johnson, Julius Drake, Roger Vignoles and Martin Katz.

Considered by many to be one of the leading concert and oratorio basses of our time, Nathan Berg performs regularly with many of the world's top symphony orchestras including Chicago, New York, Berlin, Cleveland, Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival, Houston, Philadelphia and San Francisco as well as with period groups such as Les Arts Florissants and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the batons of many distinguished conductors including Abbado, Ashkenazy, Boulez, Christie, Davis, Dohnanyi, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Mackerras, Masur, Maazel,  Norrington, Ozawa, Rilling, Salonen, Slatkin, Tilson-Thomas and Welser-Most.

An in-demand, 'first-class' (Boston Globe) and versatile bass-baritone he has appeared operatically in roles ranging from Mozart's Figaro, Leporello, Don Giovanni and Guglielmo, Puccini's Scarpia, Marcello, Coline, Wagner's Dutchman, Verdi's Ferrando, Rossini's Alidoro, Rameau's Huascar and numerous Handel roles in such places as the Bolshoi, Teatroalla Scala, Glyndebourne, Paris National Opera, Netherlands Opera, La Monnai, New York City Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Bavarian State Opera to name just a few.

Tian Haojiang has performed in NCPA productions of Turandot, Chinese Orphan, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Aida (concet version), Eugene Onegin, Rickshaw Boy, Norma and Aida.

Since his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1991, Tian Haojiang, a native of Beijing, has sung over 1300 performances of 40 operatic roles worldwide. He has been on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera for 19 years in 300 performances of 26 operas. Tian has also been highly praised for his appearances in many international theaters such as the Berlin State Opera, Teatro Comunale in Florence, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Arena di Verona, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Canadian Opera Company, and other major opera houses in the three continents.  

Among highlights of his recent and current engagements, he performed as Timur at the Metropolitan Opera, King Philip in Don Carlo at Liege in Belgium, Le Cid in Valencia in Spain with Plácido Domingo, Ramphis in Aida in San Francisco, world premiere of Tian's one-man show Sing Brother Sing in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, title role of Poet Li Bai in Los Angeles, title role of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci in Hong Kong, Verdi's Masnadieri with the Washington Concert Opera, and a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in New York. 

His autobiography, Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met, was released in 2008 worldwide by Wiley and Sons as a Lincoln Center Book.

Born in Tiflis in Georgia, Stella Grigorian had her first professional engagement in 1998, which took her straight to the Vienna State Opera where she remained a member of the company until June 2006. Quickly she grew into leading roles like Rosina in II barbiere di Siviglia, Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri (with Marco Armiliato), Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Despina in Così fan tutte, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro (with Riccardo Muti and Seiji Ozawa), Pierotto in Linda di Chamounix, Meg Page in Falstaff (with Fabio Luisi), Antigone in Enescu's Oedipe, and Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette.

In 2006 she debuted at Frankfurt Opera as Nerone in Handel's Agrippina and stayed strongly related to that opera house, where she sang Sesto in La clemenza di Tito (Director: Christoph Loy), La Cenerentola, Polina in Pique Dame, Medea in Cavalli’s Giasone, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Melibea in II viaggio a Reims, Fenena in Nabucco, Siebel in Faust, and Sélysette in Ariane et Barbe-Bleue.

She opens the season 2013/14 as Adalgisa in a new production of Bellini’s Norma at Opéra de Toulon. She returns as Charlotteto the Irkutsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance it of Massenet's Werther. At the Estonian National Opera in Tallinn she successfully sang Maddalena in Rigoletto and was immediately re-invited for a concert performance of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. At the Opéra Comique de Paris she appears in a concert of the Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation, under the direction of Alain Altinoglu. She returns to the New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv in the role of Orlofsky in Strauss' Die Fledermaus.

At Bregenz festival she appeared in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Kirill Petrenko conducting. Further concerts took her to Florence with Zubin Mehta and to Basel with Fabio Luisi. She recorded a CD I am Suddenly Spanish with songs by Obradors, Glinka, Tschaikowsky, Shostakowitsch, Bizet, Ravel, Delibes, Massenet, Rossini and Donizetti, accompanied by Helmut Deutsch.

Chinese American mezzo-soprano Guo Yanyu has already worked with many opera companies throughout Europe and the United States; including San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera Paris de Bastille, Goteborg Opera Sweden, Landestheater Salzburg, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Nationaltheater Weimar, Opera North Carolina, Connecticut Grand Opera, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Saarlandisches Staatstheater, Staatstheater Freiburg, Theater Essen, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Theater Bielefeld, Theater Monchengladbach und Krefeld. She has performed with great success as Ortrud in Lohengrin, Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il Trovatore, Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, Fricka in Die Walküre and Das Rheingold, Waltraute in Gotterdommerung, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and Mutter in Hansel und Gretel. Guo Yanyu has worked with conductors such as Maurizio Arena, Bruno Campanella, Edo de Waart, Charles Mackerras, Donald Runnicles, Nello Santi, Gerard Schwarz, Patrick Summers, John Fiore; Directors such as John Copley, Sonja Frisell, Michael Hampe, Lotfi Mansouri.

Her concert appearances include Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at Alice Tully Hall with Robert Kraft; Verdi's Requiem with the New York Choral Society in Carnegie Hall; and Berlioz' Les Nuits d'été with Donald Runnicles and the San Francisco Chamber Symphony. Miss Guo has sung Verdi's Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Mahler's Third symphony in America, Germany and Taiwan.

Jolana Fogasová studied classical singing at the Conservatoire in Bratislava (1986-1990) and at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under the guidance of Professor V. Stracenska (1990-1994), where she also completed her doctorate in 2009. In recent years she has been working with Professor J. Loibl in Munich. She was taught by Carlo Bergonzi in Masterclasses in Siena, Italy. She was awarded a scholarship by the Friends of the Vienna State Opera. She was also a finalist in “Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition“. Since 1992 she has been a permanent guest at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. The same year she launched her international career as a mezzo-soprano. It is her voice range, singing technique and her artistic potential that directed JolanaFogasová towards the soprano repertoire in following years. In December 2011, she sung at a concert alongside the world famous tenor José Carreras.

Her melodramatic soprano repertiore covers a wide area od operatic parts, which are enabled by her voice type 'soprano spintod'agilita': Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Elza (Lohengrin), Venuss (Tannhauser), Salome, Eglantine (Euryanthe), Lucrezia Contarini (Due Foscari), Abigaille (Nabucco), Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc), Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle), Santuzza (Cavelleria Rusticana), Marina (Boris Godunov), Lucrezia Borgia (Lucrezia Borgia), Kostelnicka (Jenufa), Witch and the Foreign Princess (Rusalka), The Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Kristina (The Makropulos Affair), which she sang in Teatroalla Scala in Milan end in Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Z. Mehta.

She has worked with many renowned orchestras: Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Suisse Romande, Orchestra Sinfonica dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Slovenskáfilharmónia, Matáv Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Orchestre National Bordeaux - Aquitaine, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hessische Rundfunk Orchester, Nord Nederlands Orchestra, Orchestre National d'Ile de France, Dusseldorfer Symphoniker, Orchestra del Teatro Verdi Trieste, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Picardie and others.

Ke Luwa, winner of the First Prize of the Second 'Madama Butterfly' International Vocal Competition in Nagasaki, Japan 2006, and the Gold Prize winner of the Fourth China International Vocal Competition.

She studied at the Central Conservatory of Music from 1998 to 2006, and earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Voice and Opera Department. Her tutor was Professor Guo Shuzhen, one of China's best sopranos and vocal educators.

In 2005, she was invited to cooperate with China Philharmonic Orchestra to sing in the Chinese version of Song of Earth by composer Ye Xiaogang in the first performance in Beijing. And the show was later put on stage in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the US, Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall in Germany, London Barbican Arts Center in Britain and in Italy.

Luwa is often invited to perform in important concert in China. In 2009, she performed in the opening ceremony of the Ninth Beijing Festival. She performed in the great hall when the former Secretary of State of US Hillary Clinton visited China in this year. In 2010, she successfully held her personal concerts in Taiwan and HongKong. In 2012, she was selected as China's top ten soprano by CCTV.

She began to star in a number of operas since 2004. These heroines include: Servilia in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème, and Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.

Li Xintong is the resident opera singer in NCPA. In NCPA productions, she has sung in Carmen (Frasquita), Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina), etc.

Li Xintong graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music. She got a master's degree in vocal music teaching at the New England Conservatory. She has sung in Thunder, Il Tabarro, Carmen, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Turandot, and other more than twenty operas and oratorios.

As soprano of the CMC Political Work Department Opera Troupe, Wang Jing has performed in NCPA productions of Carmen and Otello. Graduating from Vocal Voice & Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music in China, she attended Welsh Opera Master Class, Shanghai Metropolitan International Opera Master Class, and Bergonzi International Vocal Music Master Class. Her works include the premiere of opera La Clemenza di Tito (Sesto) in China, La Traviata (Annina), The Magic Flute (The Maid of the Night), Madama Butterfly (Suzuki) in concert version, Carmen (Mercedes), CMC Political Work Department Opera Troupe-originated operas Sun Snow (Su Yuying) and Missile Command (An Jing), and musical West Side Story (Rozalia). She won the Third Prize in the New Vocal Music Competition in 2003 and the Second Prize of Drama Performance in the Art Show of Military in 2009. She has held several solo concerts in Beijing and performed in hundreds of concerts around the country.  

Yang Yanting has sung Flora in NCPA's production of La Traviata.

She was awarded the excellent prize in the China section of Bellini International Vocal Competition, and the third prize of the 11th Hebei TV Youth Singers Competition.

Tenor Kou Jing  has performed in NCPA production of La Traviata. He got a Master’s Degree of Opera Performance in the Parma Conservatory of Music in Italy and starred in the Verdi’s Requiem Mass held by the Italian Ministry of Culture in memory of the 200^th anniversary of Verdi’s birth, which toured in Italy and dozens of cities in America and received extremely high appraisal from Parma Mail. He won the Third Place and Special Award in the “Voci dal Mediterraneo” International Opera Competition and the Special Award of the “Maria Caniglia” International Opera Competition.  

Zhang Xin is a resident soprano of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. She has sung many soprano roles in NCPA's opera productions and commissions, such as Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Visitors on the Snow Mountain and Simon Boccanegra.

Zhang Xin took her master degree in vocal music in Conservatorio Arrigo Boito di Parma. Her singing was highly praised by world-known soprano Mirella Freni as having plenty of power and expression. Her repertoire includes Verdi's and Puccini's works and often appears in productions and concerts del Teatro Regio di Parm, Luciano Pavarotti' opera house of Modena and other major opera houses around the world.