Long Yu leads the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in a rehearsal of “Émigré,” an oratorio about Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, featuring…
It must be a dream team in the classical music world as some of top musicians from China and the US gathered in Shanghai for a four-year co-commissioned work. The oratorio, Émigré, commissioned by Maestro Long Yu, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO) and the New York Philharmonic (NY Phil) made its global premiere in Shanghai on November 17-20.
When classic music meets a 1961 Chinese animation on the stage of Beijing Music Festival, it brings not only joy of experiencing one of the best Chinese animated films, The Monkey King, but also the fest to ears by instruments of East and West.
Under the baton of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor Yu Long, the orchestra will present a series of spectacular programmes in September 2023, joined by illustrious soloists and choruses. Learn more about the upcoming programming here!
Co-produced by Chinese and US musicians, a 90-minute oratorio about Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany and heading to Shanghai in East China is set to debut in November, the show s main composers announced recently at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.