MADRID, 10 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
This February 12, China will welcome the Year of the Ox, a date that is traditionally celebrated in a festive way, inside and outside its borders, and which this year will be marked by the restrictions caused by COVID-19, which will limit all activities organized around this date, concentrating all the events virtually.
The Royal Theater has wanted to join these celebrations with the broadcast on its video platform, ‘My Opera Player’, of the Concert for the Chinese New Year held in Beijing on December 13 at the National Center for Performing Arts (NCPA), in which its titular orchestra, led by Lu Jia, performed Chinese folk music, Western classics, and well-known opera arias.
Thus, along with the Ode to the Red Flag, by Lyu Quiming, and the Capricho del Lago Honghu for erhu and orchestra, which featured the participation of Deng Jiandong on the delicate oriental instrument, attendees were able to listen to well-known opera arias such as’ Una furtiva lagrima ‘, from Gaetano Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore; ‘Mercè, dilette amiche’, by Giuseppe Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani and the toast by La Traviata, performed by soprano Hui He and tenor Jinxu Xiahou together with the NCPA choir and orchestra.
The concert also had a moment to close the Beethoven Year celebrations by including in the program the Egmont Overture and the Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major, with Haochen Zhang as soloist.
The Royal Theater is part of the Silk Road International League of Theaters, a cultural platform created by the Chinese government to promote artistic exchange in the field of performing arts between the Asian country and the other member countries, a total of 56, among which are the United States, Russia and France.
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