Pier Francesco Maestrini made his NCPA debut as the revival director of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. He has been the director of NCPA's Don Pasquale.

Born in Firenze, Italian opera director Pier Francesco Maestrini started his career in 1993, at Tokyo's Bunkamura Orchard Hall, with Rossini's masterpiece Il Barbiere di Siviglia, starring Angelo Romero, Rockwell Blake and Alfonso Antoniozzi. By then, he staged over 80 productions in Italy and around the world, from baroque repertoire to Italian verismo. In 2013, opens with Otello in Modena, Pavarotti and Freni's hometown, where expert opera fans and qualified reviewers acclaimed the production. 2012 saw his vampire version of Don Giovanni having a huge impact on Chilean audience, where stunning sets and costumes matched the strong concept behind the unusual but logical parallel between two eternal myths: Mozart's libertine and Bram Stoker's Dracula. In the same year his Rigoletto in Rio de Janeiro, delivered a desperate and suffered portrayal of Verdi's hunch backed.

In June 2012, L'elisir d'amore in Maribor was a huge success entertaining a surprised audience with an unexpected Country-western version of Donizetti's masterpiece, that was considered one of the best operas staged in their Slovenian National Theatre. In 2011 again in Maribor for La Forza del Destino. The movie-like production earned great consents among audience and critics, and has been restaged in April, 2013 in Liege, Belgium.

Another landmark was achieved in 2010 with Attila at the Verdi Opera Festival of Parma, played in the small theatre of Busseto, Verdi's hometown. As for the previous Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the production has animated movie projections especially featured in 3D computer graphic, in a fantasy like style for the great response from the audience that led the production to be considered the best of the year. 

2010 was the year of a large project, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, that was performed over 100 times in Brasil, in every major town, produced by the Companhia Brasileira de Opera. His idea of animated cartoons interacting with the singers was highly entertaining either for adults and children, and gained large popularity even in a country where opera is considered only a happening for a selected audience.

She has performed in NCPA's productions of Rusalka, A Village Teacher, La Bohème, Carmen, The Chinese Orphan, Rockshaw Boy, Visitors on the Snow Mountain, Carmen, Le Nozze di Figaro, Simon Boccanegra, La Traviata 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.

Guo Chengcheng is a young opera performer of China National Opera House (CNOH), graduating from Ecole Normale Super Paris in France and getting a Double Master's Degree of Senior Opera Singing and Senior European Singer there. She won the Third Prize of Bellini International Vocal Music Competition, Special Award of French Bourgogne International Vocal Music Competition and Excellence Award of International Vocal Music Competition held by Italian Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo. She has performed in Romance of Rawap commissioned by China National Opera House as leading role Anar Guli, and in other operas of Die Fledermaus (Adele), operetta Arshin Mal Alan and The Magic Flute (The Queen of the Night). She has held several chamber concerts with Antoine Chamber Orchestra in the Cortot Concert Hall in Paris and with China National Opera House Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra as well. After coming back to China, she has positively took part in performances and concerts around the country, winning high praise repeatedly. 

After having been the revelation of the Rossini Opera Festival 2008, singing as Cavalier Belfiore in Ilviaggio a Reimsin the 'AccademiaRossiniana' production, Shi Yijie was immediately invited back to Pesaro to sing the title role in Le Comte Ory at the Rossini Opera Festival 2009, where he has had a warm success imposing himself on the international scene. 

Despite his relative youth Shi Yijie  has already had tremendous success singing at internationally renowned venues such as Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino di Firenze, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Deutsche Oper of Berlin, Opéra de Nancy, Théatre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opéra de Lausanne, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, TeatroComunale di Bologna, Festival Mozart de la Coruna, Teatro Arriaga de Bilbaoand De Vlaamse Opera of Antwerp, working with such conductors as Roberto Abbado, Kent Nagano and Alberto Zedda. 

He opened the 2013/14 season performing L'elisir d'Amore (Nemorino) at the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, followed by his return to Bejing NCPA in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, and his role debut as Fernand in La Favoriteat the Théatre du Capitole de Toulouse and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle in La Coruna. 

His future plans include I Pagliacci,Don Pasquale, Der Rosenkavalier, L'italiana in Algeri andGuillaume Tell at Bejing NCPA, Falstaff ( Fenton) and I Puritani (Arturo) at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, L'occasione fa illadro (Conte Alberto) at Théatre des Champs Elysées de Paris, Tancredi (Argirio) and Il turco in Italia (Narciso) at Opéra de Lausanne, Il turco in Italia(Narciso) and Tancredi at Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Rossini's Armida (Rinaldo), Mozart'sIdomeneo (Arbace) and Die Zauberfloete (Tamino)in Antwerp, as well as Il turco in Italia (Narciso) at Théatre du Capitole de Toulouse. 

Jin Zhengjian has played Gaston in the opera La dame aux Camellias produced by NCPA. He is a tenor, opera actor of the China Opera and Dance Drama Company and a national class-A actor.

During his study in the Master Class of Wolfgang International Art Festival, he won the Award for Outstanding Student and the praise from Cheista Ludwig and James Levine. Since 2008, sponsored by the French government, he has studied systematically classical operas of France, such as Le Roi d'Yis, Faust and Romeo and Juliet, under the Artistic Director Robert Gonnella, and won the praise from the famous French conductor Michel Plasson.

In 2000, he won the Silver Award for Team Competition at the CCTV 'BBG Cup' Young Singers Competition and the Silver Award for Individuals (Professional) at the 'Lark Cup' competition.

He has participated in many operas, including: the original Chinese operas The Wild, Farewell, My Concubine, Farewell to Cambridge Again, Song of Youth, Imperial Concubine Yang , Romance of Rawap, Mourning, Legend of Yao Ji, Year of Dragon in Tangshan, Wu Guniang, The Injustice Done to Dou E; Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde; French operas Le Roi d'Yi, Turandot, The Magic Flute, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Bartered Bride, Lucia of Lammermoor, La dame aux Camellias, Rigoletto and Candide, etc. He has worked with famous orchestras including China National Symphony, China Philharmonic Orchestra, symphonic orchestra and Chinese music orchestra of the China Opera and Dance Drama Company, China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra, China Film Symphony Orchestra, China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Chinese Music Orchestra of the China Broadcasting Performing-arts Troupe, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. Moreover, he has acted as soloist and leading singer in many major performing events such as Handel's oratorio Messiah.

In 2007, on behalf of the China Record Corporation, she took part in the 13^th Longliqi Cup Youth TV Singers Competition and went into the team finals, and in cooperation with the Shanghai National Orchestra, he performed as baritone lead singer in the large-scale symphonic musical Great Music Chapter at the NCPA. From 2007 to 2008, he worked in the PLA Air Force Political Department Art Troupe for a year and starred in the opening opera Sister Jiang of the NCPA, in which he played the role of Lan Hongshun. In 2008 he was admitted by the Vocal and Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music (baritone) and studied under the famous low baritone professor Zhao Dengying. In December 2009, he served as the lead singer of the Datong Song in the film Confucius, with the novel of the same name written by the famous screenwriter Mr. Chen Han. In June 2010, he played Betto in the Puccini's Gianni Schicchi during the NCPA Opera Festival. In December 2010, during the first performance of the 1^st International Comic Opera Season, he successfully played Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro and won wide appraise. In April 2011, he played the role of Le Dancaire in the NCPA's production of Carmen. In August 2011, he was invited to participate in the Carnac 1^st International Music Festival (France) to play a major role in Gianni Schicchi. In October 2011, he played Dandini in the NCPA's production of La Cenerentola and in December 2014, he played NCPA's production of Visitors on the Snow Moutain.