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■ Zheng Xiaoying on the podium (data map).
On the evening of March 8, 93-year-old famous conductor Zheng Xiaoying will join hands with five outstanding female musicians to pay tribute to International Women's Day with a special symphony concert on "Sonorous Roses" - "March 8" Women's Day at the Minnan Grand Theatre. Yesterday afternoon, she and Gao Song, a disciple of the closed door and young conductor, held a sharing session at the Minnan Grand Theater to talk about the New Year's planning of the Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center and the power of women. The reporter interviewed Zheng Xiaoying again.
Talk about women
Self-reliance to be a "sonorous rose" "I am proud of my motherland"
"Although I am the conductor of the first opera symphony in China, I don't find it surprising in my country. When I went abroad to perform in the 1980s and 1990s, my foreign counterparts asked me in amazement, how can there be a female conductor like you in China, and how did you defeat those men and stand on the podium? "Zheng Xiaoying said that she told the other party that in China, she also had the opportunity to learn conducting, and did a good job, so she served as the chief conductor of the Central Opera House and the head of the conducting department of the Central Conservatory of Music." When I was given these responsibilities, including when I was growing up, I never felt sexist."
Last year, Zheng Xiaoying introduced 30 famous Chinese female conductors in history on her own self-media platform. She also discovered that the first female conductor introduced in the Western media to become the director of the orchestra's orchestra, an Australian female conductor, became the director of the Hamburg Opera House in 2005. Zheng Xiaoying became the chief conductor of the Central Opera House in 1978. "27 years earlier, as a woman, I am proud of my country, and we treat female musicians without discrimination." Abroad, she said, in September 1982, Karajan, the music director of the Berliner Philharmonic, intended to hire Meyer, whose members voted 73 to 4 against the hiring. Karajan argues that the reason for the opposition is Meyer's femininity.
"As a woman, what you need most is self-improvement, so that you can stand on your own." Zheng Xiaoying also gave advice to women. Her attitude can also be seen in the name of the concert on the evening of March 8, "Sonorous Rose" means a loud, passionate, powerful rose. Zheng Xiaoying said that women are not just a "beautiful flower".
On the evening of March 8, Zheng Xiaoying will co-conduct the Xiamen Song and Dance Theatre Symphony Orchestra with her disciple Gao Song, and play the "Sonorous Rose" Women's Day Symphony Concert with violinist Dang Huali, soprano Singer Song Qian, flute player Sun Siyi and harpist Chen Yuying. From this concert, I hope you can see that the invited female musicians can reach a high artistic standard, through hard work, as long as they work hard, they can contribute more to human civilization.
Talk about art
Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center has registered hoping that Xiamen will become a city with opera
"Sonorous Rose" - "March 8" Women's Day special concert will also be the premiere of the 2022 opening season of Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center. In the past seven or eight years, the Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center, with the purpose of "opera close to the public, the public into the opera", has presented the opera "Wisteria Flower", the concert version of the opera "Yue Fei", the Chinese version of the opera "La Traviata", and the Chinese version of the opera "The Marriage of Lord Pa" for the Audience in Xiamen.
Zheng Xiaoying said that the Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center was registered in January this year. This year, with the strong support of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, the center is committed to becoming an incubator for Chinese opera, further promoting "singing in foreign opera", presenting more operas, and hoping that Xiamen will become a city with opera.
"Through this first concert, we announce to the society that this year we will also launch a music season, including concerts, Italian opera, Chinese opera and so on. The center will present Chinese composer Shi Guangnan's opera "Wisteria Flower", Rehall's operetta "Happy Widow", and a re-arrangement of Verdi's opera "La Traviata". Zheng Xiaoying said.
Source: Xiamen Evening News reporter Lin Xiaoyun