Dai Yuqiang, Mo Hualun and Wei Song – "China's Three Tenors" gathered at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center last night to perform the opening performance for The 2021-22 season of Dongyi. Dozens of well-known Chinese and foreign classics, escorted by the famous conductor Gao Song, and the enthusiastic performance of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra jointly brought a high-level and shocking audio-visual feast to the Audience in Shanghai.
Pictured: Wei Song, Mo Hualun (center), and Dai Yuqiang (right) sing "The Sun Rises and Never Sets on the Grassland" Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photographed
Dai Yuqiang was Pavarotti's first Asian disciple, and he became a well-known tenor in China with his lyrical voice and gorgeous stage performance style; Wei Song, as the artistic director of the Shanghai Opera House, was known as "China's Othello"; Mo Warren was the artistic director of the Hong Kong Opera House, served as the chief tenor of the Berlin Opera House in Germany, and was one of the first Chinese singers to be active on the international stage.
A beethoven "Egmont" overture kicks off the concert. Because it is the theme of acura for the centenary of the founding of the party, "China's three highs" added singing tracks such as "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party", "I Love You China", "The Motherland's Kind Mother", "The Great Wall Never Falls" and other singing tracks for this concert, leading the Shanghai audience to look back at the motherland's century-old glory together. In addition, a series of Chinese and foreign folk songs, art songs and opera excerpts, such as "In That Distant Place", "Fengyang Flower Drum", "Return to Surito", "Santa Lucia", "Please Don't Forget Me", etc., show the unique understanding of classical music and the appropriate artistic presentation of the "Three Highs of China" in one go.
Pictured: Wei Song sings "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party" Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photographed
Gao Song introduced that the three tenors pay great attention to interspersing Chinese and Western works, both big dishes and small points. From red songs to folk songs, from highly representative Chinese and foreign songs to the classic singing sections of Western opera, the three singers join forces with ease and humor, as if they are not on stage as highly prestigious singers, but three old friends who have been together for a long time.
Eight years ago, the three tenors had an indissoluble relationship with Dongyi. In 2013, at the celebration of the eighth anniversary of Dongyi, the "Three Highs of China" competed on the same stage in Puccini's opera "Tosca", taking turns to sing Cavaladosi's famous aria "Starry". Last night, the "Chinese Voice Dream Team" once again appeared in Dongyi, opening the new performance season with gorgeous singing, and this is also the most important stop on the group's 10th anniversary tour.
Although the three singers are all tenors, their timbres are recognizable, and when combined, they can be very harmonious and contrast with each other, and no one will drown anyone. With their loud singing voices, they announced to the world that China has the soil to give birth to outstanding singers, and there are musicians with a sense of artistic responsibility and artistic conscience. For the birth of this brand, all walks of life at home and abroad have given full affirmation and approval, praising the "Three Highs of China" as a global messenger to build Chinese culture and a new brand of Chinese culture born under the new situation. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)