Photo: Courtesy of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

 
The Shanghai Conservatory of Music successfully hosted the “Opera Performance Talent Training” report performance at the He Lüting Concert Hall in Shanghai on Friday. This event was part of the National Arts Fund’s 2024 annual art talent training funding project.    

The concert, Essence of Chinese and Foreign Classical Operas, featured a series of splendid opera duets, trios, and quartets performed by the students of the training program and accompanied by the Shanghai Opera House Orchestra.

Thirty young opera performers from various cultural troupes and art colleges across the country demonstrated the achievements they had made during the 30-day intensive training program. The concert was composed of excerpts from both Chinese and foreign operatic works, showcasing the students’ learning outcomes in vocal skills, language pronunciation, stage performance, and overall presentation.

The training curriculum covered multiple aspects of the development of opera, with expert classes focusing on various aspects of opera performance. Musicians such as baritone Liao Changyong provided valuable professional guidance to the students, drawing on their rich stage experience to offer detailed instruction on vocal techniques, musical processing and stage performance.

As a vital component of social aesthetic education, all four report concerts of this training program were open to the public. The initiative invited citizens to experience the beauty of opera up close, receiving a warm social response.