Chinese singer Zheng Nan Italian coaching stick: music education is a bigger platform

China News Service, Beijing, January 21 Title: Chinese singer Zheng Nan Italian coaching stick: music education is a bigger platform

China News Service reporter Ying Ni

Italy is the home of opera, and the vocal professors at the National Conservatory of Music are almost exclusively Italians. But not long ago, a Chinese became a tenured professor in the vocal department of the GallathaiPuccini Conservatory in Italy. She is the Chinese soprano Zheng Nan.

To be able to teach at an Italian conservatory requires rigorous open competition and assessment. In this assessment, there were more than 100 people participating in the competition, and only a dozen people entered the interview. In the end, Zheng Nan will win the highest score with excellent performance and become the final winner.

"For me, there was no surprise at all." Zheng Nan calmly said that in the confrontation with competitors, his biggest advantage is the high level of singing, as well as the experience of being a teacher before and the unique teaching concept. "A vocal teacher, it's important that she can sing. In a word, if you sing it clearly, you can teach it. ”

Zheng Nan was admitted to the Vocal Music Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1999, where he studied under renowned vocal artists and educators Liu Ruo'e and Professor Liao Changyong. He studied in Italy under the tutelage of Luisamacnez and Prof. evgheniadundekova, and successively obtained a diploma in vocal music from the Rossini Conservatory of Music in Italy and a master's degree in opera from the Rossini Conservatory. He won the first prize in the Italian Carly International Vocal Competition.

In order to master and interpret the purest Italian opera, Zheng Nan studied almost all the subjects of this professional system in Italy, and she knew clearly that getting a diploma was by no means the only purpose. "In Italy, people don't look at your diploma, the most important thing is singing ability. If you can sing, you can come, people will obey you, and you can't sing even if you are a doctor or postdoc. ”

In 2006, Zheng Nan appeared at the "Rossini Opera Festival" in Italy, which is the highest stage for interpreting the works of Italian musician Rossini, and successfully starred as the heroine of Rossini's opera "Travels of Lance". Since then, she has officially started her career. Over the years, Zheng Nan has participated in more than 200 performances in China, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Japan and other countries, and has played the leading role in many opera performances such as "La Traviata", "Nabuco", "Turks in Italy", "Don Juan" and other opera performances, and held many solo concerts.

From many years of art, from the stage to the podium, Zheng Nan's eyes began to turn to a broader vision. Zheng Nan said frankly: "My ideal is not limited to the podium. In the future, education is my main business, not teaching. Recently, she found several highly promising tenors at a master class held in China and plans to provide them with the opportunity to study in Europe.

Zheng Nan, vice president of the Verdi Cultural Association of Italy, revealed that her association signed a contract with well-known art institutions such as the Royal Opera House in Parma, Italy, the Mascany Young Singers Training Camp and other well-known art institutions this year, using the foundation here to provide learning and training opportunities for talented young singers. "In the future, I will use our resources to build a larger international performing arts platform for these young people." Art still needs support after all. ”

Now Zheng Nan is both a professor and a professional manager, as well as a concert planning producer. "These characters have one thing in common, which is a love of classical music. As a professor, I want to see the inheritance of art, and as a manager and concert planner and producer, I want to show the best side of art to the audience. ”

In her view, in the early years, classical music was widely believed to belong to Westerners, but now it is different, it has become an international common culture, and its popularity in China has increased significantly. No matter where you come from, as long as you are willing to work hard and get professional guidance, you have the opportunity to enter the international arena. (End)