In 2014, NCPA presented the Norma on the Chinese stage for the first time. In the first round of the performance, this opera received its accolade with mysterious and fantastic stage visual effects, beautiful and resounding melodies and artists’ passionate singing and performance.
Mozart's opera Le Nozze di Figaro is still one of the operas most frequently staged by the worldwide theatres. Composition talent of this “Music Prodigy” is incisively and vividly demonstrated by this opera, in which classical melodies are too numerous to mention one by one. Figaro and Susanna’s tortuous love story is also designed in extraordinary and sophisticated manner.
Though opera Andrea Chénier is not an opera known to all, Andre Chénier is indeed an influential poet in the history of French literature. Musically, this opera is not only imposing with the style of Wagner’s opera, but also radiates beautiful and lyrical charms of Italian opera.
This is the most popular opera among 14 operas created by Richard Strauss. On the stage of Rococo style, romantic waltz melodies and a love story achieve a perfect combination, witnessing the supreme integration of music and libretto in the opera history.
L' Elisir d'amore, one of three comic Italian operas, will be staged in NCPA again. Opera stage is in fantastic and gorgeous style. Italian director Pier Francesco Maestrini, maintaining his good collaboration with NCPA, injects more humor elements the 2015 production.
