- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 110 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- This program on 9/14(Sat)14:30 is a live streaming performance from Kaohsiung where the actual start time and interval may vary depending on the actual situation.
The presenter reserves the right to change or cancel the event as necessary. - Age guidance 7+
- Performed in Spanish with both Mandarin and English surtitles
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- 7/26(Mon)12:00 to 8/2(Mon)12:00 25% off for Weiwuying member
- 8/2(Mon)12:00 to 8/16(Mon)12:00 25% off for sales
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
A. PIAZZOLLA - María de Buenos Aires
When you think about tango, probably 90 percent of the tango music that reverberates in your head was composed by him. He is Argentina's "King of Tango," Astor PIAZZOLLA, and this year is the centennial of his birth. PIAZZOLLA rearranged popular street dance music into exquisite music that could be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike. His music has also proved to be generational; even classical music superstars such as Yo-Yo MA, Gidon KREMER, and Daniel BARENBOIM have not been immune to its charm and have all paid homage to PIAZZOLLA by publishing tango albums. This year, Weiwuying and Hong Kong's City Contemporary Dance Company have joined forces to perform PIAZZOLLA's "María de Buenos Aires,"—the world's first tango opera and a novelty at the time of its writing. A hyper-realistic narrative style is used to depict the life and death experiences of the heroine María in the Argentine capital, which acts as a metaphor for this South American country's religious and historical links to Western culture. As soon as the sound of the accordion in the overture takes off, audience members' established ideas about "Western opera" are sure to be overturned. In an instant, Weiwuying's Recital Hall is transformed into a tiny South American tavern, giving way to a production full of irresistible and tantalizing charm!
Weiwuying Theater 6
In response to the pandemic, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) presents this greatly anticipated performance online in collaboration with the PTS Taiwan, inviting audiences across the country to experience the power of opera.
Time：2021/9/18(Sat)14:30
Price：300
Live streaming platform：Cloud Theatre
The Performance is recorded by PTS Taiwan
Pre-talk
2021/9/17(Fri)19:00-19:20 Playhouse Auditorium
2021/9/18(Sat)14:00-14:20 Playhouse Auditorium
2021/9/19(Sun)14:00-14:20 Playhouse Auditorium
Creative and Production Team
A. PIAZZOLLA: María de Buenos Aires
Music｜Astor PIAZZOLLA
Text & Libretto｜Horacio FERRER
Conductor｜CHIEN Wen-pin
Stage Director & Choreographer｜Helen LAI
Taiwan Executive Director & Rehearsal Master | CHEN Qiu-yin
Set Designer｜CHEN Wei-Kuang
Costume Designer｜FAN Huai-chih
Lighting Designer｜KUO Chien-hao
Female Singer (Maria)｜Jeannie CHIANG
Male Singer (Cantor)｜YEH Chan-yu
Narrator (Duende)｜ Ricardo CANZIO
Dancers｜CHIEN Lin-yi, CHENG I-han, YANG Ya-yuan, WU Shin-jie, HUANG Yu-hsuan, HSU Pei-jia, Albert GARCIA, LEE Kuan-ling, LU Ying-chieh, YANG Ya-ching, KUO Chueh-kai, WANG Chun-hung
Understudy｜LIAO Chien-yao
Musicians
Bandoneon｜LEE Chen-chung
Violin 1｜WANG Chih-hsiang
Violin 2｜TU Kuan-chang
Viola｜LIN Chieh-yu
Cello｜LEE Chien-hua
Double Bass｜CHEN Hung-chih
Piano｜CHEN Yung-jen
Guitar｜Roberto ZAYAS
Flute｜OU Chia-wen
Percussion｜CHENG Ya-hsin
Drum｜Toshi Fuji
Artists Introduction
Conductor | CHIEN Wen-pin
CHIEN Wen-pin was born in 1967 in Taipei. He received an undergraduate degree from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts and a Master's degree from the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. From 1998 to 2004, he was Resident Conductor at Japan's Pacific Music Festival, founded by Leonard BERNSTEIN, and he became Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan in 2001, where he remained until 2007. In 1996, he began his 22-year career as Kapellmeister of Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf Duisburg, Germany). From 2014 to 2016, CHIEN served as artistic advisor to the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. In 2014, he was honored with the National Award for Arts. Currently CHIEN is the Executive and Artistic Director of National Performing Arts Center - National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying).
Director & Choreographer | Helen LAI
Helen LAI is one of Hong Kong's foremost choreographers. LAI has choreographed for nearly all Hong Kong performing arts companies including Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong Ballet and Dance Art, as well as a number of films and musicals. Outside Hong Kong, she has choreographed for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Crossover Dance Company in Taipei, Contempodanza and Ballet Estudio in Mexico City, Guangdong Modern Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre.
In July 2000, LAI was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Hong Kong SAR Government. Other awards include Badge of Honour from the Queen of the United Kingdom (1995). In 2002, LAI was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance. In 2003, she received the Award for Arts Achievement (Dance) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for her contributions towards arts development in Hong Kong.
Female Singer (Maria) Jeannie CHIANG
Jeannie CHIANG, Taiwanese Soprano, got her master degree from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in U.S.A.in after graduating from Taipei National University of Art with the bachelor degree. Since then, she has engaged in various performances and become one of the most active singers in Taiwan.
Concerts and operas at home and abroad she has been invited to perform included Budapest Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), Ningbo Symphony Orchestra (Zhejiang Province, China), JiangSu Performing Arts Group Symphony Orchestra (Zhejiang Province, China), Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra(NSO), Taipei Symphony Orchestra(TSO), Taipei Philharmonic Foundation(TPF), National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra(NTSO), Evergreen Symphony Orchestra(ESO) etc.
She has made her debut as Mimi in La Bohème, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Amina in La Sonnambula, Salud in La Vida Breve, and Marguerite in Faust.
In addition, over the years Jeannie has performed as Soprano solo in Mozart's C Minor Mass and Webber Requiem with Conductor GáborHollerung, Music Exchange Faculty concert with ShangHai conservatory of music. KAO Man-ching in Sunlight after snowfall with conductor CHIEN Wen-pin in Hong Kong culture center and Taichung Opera House.
Male Singer (Cantor) | YEH Chan-yu
Graduated from the Bachelor degree in Biotechnology from Kaohsiung Medical University, the Master program in Voice at Tunghai University, where YEH Chan-yu studied with Dr. HSU Yi-lin and CHENG Cheng-fang. He cooperated with
with National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), National Taichung Theater (NTT), National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra(NTSO), Taipei Symphony Orchestra(TSO), NTCH Opera studio, and Taipei Philharmonic Chorus (TPC).
The Roles in Opera he played including: Schaunard in La Boheme, Danilo in Die Lustige Witwe ,Riff in West side story, Donner in Das Rheingold, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Silvglia, Montano in Otello, Betto in Gianni Schicchi, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Ramfis in Aida, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Alfonso and Guglielmo in Cosi fan Tutte, Lakai in Ariadne auf Naxos, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. Yeh also performed as a soloist in Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium, Haydn's The Creations, Mahler's Das klagende Lied, Brahm's Ein deutsches Requiem, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Beethoven's Mass in C major, Symphony no.9, Handel's Messiah, and Bruckner's Te Deum Laudamus. Mass NO.3
Narrator (Duende) | Ricardo CANZIO
Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies (musicology) from the London School of Oriental & African Studies. Earlier on had studied Indian Music, Hindi and Indian Philosophies in Benares Hindu University, India.
Professor of Musicology at National Taiwan University (now retired). Previously taught at Universität Basel, Switzerland, Université de Paris VIII and the Universities of São Paulo and Bahia in Brazil.
Born in Buenos Aires he had his early training in Piano and Composition at the University of Rosario and worked as a jazz player and arranger. He also plays and sings tango.
Published numerous articles on ethnomusicology (Brazilian aborigines, Bangladesh tribals, Indian rhythms) and also produced a number of CD's with researched noted on Brazilian popular music, Tibetan Opera and Tibetan Buddhist Chant. His most recent publication is a commented translation from the Tibetan of Sakya Pandita's Treatise on Music.
The performance is co-produced by Weiwuying and City Contemporary Dance Company.
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A. PIAZZOLLA - María de Buenos Aires
When you think about tango, probably 90 percent of the tango music that reverberates in your head was composed by him. He is Argentina's "King of Tango," Astor PIAZZOLLA, and this year is the centennial of his birth. PIAZZOLLA rearranged popular street dance music into exquisite music that could be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike. His music has also proved to be generational; even classical music superstars such as Yo-Yo MA, Gidon KREMER, and Daniel BARENBOIM have not been immune to its charm and have all paid homage to PIAZZOLLA by publishing tango albums. This year, Weiwuying and Hong Kong's City Contemporary Dance Company have joined forces to perform PIAZZOLLA's "María de Buenos Aires,"—the world's first tango opera and a novelty at the time of its writing. A hyper-realistic narrative style is used to depict the life and death experiences of the heroine María in the Argentine capital, which acts as a metaphor for this South American country's religious and historical links to Western culture. As soon as the sound of the accordion in the overture takes off, audience members' established ideas about "Western opera" are sure to be overturned. In an instant, Weiwuying's Recital Hall is transformed into a tiny South American tavern, giving way to a production full of irresistible and tantalizing charm!
Weiwuying Theater 6
In response to the pandemic, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) presents this greatly anticipated performance online in collaboration with the PTS Taiwan, inviting audiences across the country to experience the power of opera.
Time：2021/9/18(Sat)14:30
Price：300
Live streaming platform：Cloud Theatre
The Performance is recorded by PTS Taiwan
Pre-talk
2021/9/17(Fri)19:00-19:20 Playhouse Auditorium
2021/9/18(Sat)14:00-14:20 Playhouse Auditorium
2021/9/19(Sun)14:00-14:20 Playhouse Auditorium
Creative and Production Team
A. PIAZZOLLA: María de Buenos Aires
Music｜Astor PIAZZOLLA
Text & Libretto｜Horacio FERRER
Conductor｜CHIEN Wen-pin
Stage Director & Choreographer｜Helen LAI
Taiwan Executive Director & Rehearsal Master | CHEN Qiu-yin
Set Designer｜CHEN Wei-Kuang
Costume Designer｜FAN Huai-chih
Lighting Designer｜KUO Chien-hao
Female Singer (Maria)｜Jeannie CHIANG
Male Singer (Cantor)｜YEH Chan-yu
Narrator (Duende)｜ Ricardo CANZIO
Dancers｜CHIEN Lin-yi, CHENG I-han, YANG Ya-yuan, WU Shin-jie, HUANG Yu-hsuan, HSU Pei-jia, Albert GARCIA, LEE Kuan-ling, LU Ying-chieh, YANG Ya-ching, KUO Chueh-kai, WANG Chun-hung
Understudy｜LIAO Chien-yao
Musicians
Bandoneon｜LEE Chen-chung
Violin 1｜WANG Chih-hsiang
Violin 2｜TU Kuan-chang
Viola｜LIN Chieh-yu
Cello｜LEE Chien-hua
Double Bass｜CHEN Hung-chih
Piano｜CHEN Yung-jen
Guitar｜Roberto ZAYAS
Flute｜OU Chia-wen
Percussion｜CHENG Ya-hsin
Drum｜Toshi Fuji
Artists Introduction
Conductor | CHIEN Wen-pin
CHIEN Wen-pin was born in 1967 in Taipei. He received an undergraduate degree from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts and a Master's degree from the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. From 1998 to 2004, he was Resident Conductor at Japan's Pacific Music Festival, founded by Leonard BERNSTEIN, and he became Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan in 2001, where he remained until 2007. In 1996, he began his 22-year career as Kapellmeister of Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf Duisburg, Germany). From 2014 to 2016, CHIEN served as artistic advisor to the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. In 2014, he was honored with the National Award for Arts. Currently CHIEN is the Executive and Artistic Director of National Performing Arts Center - National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying).
Director & Choreographer | Helen LAI
Helen LAI is one of Hong Kong's foremost choreographers. LAI has choreographed for nearly all Hong Kong performing arts companies including Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong Ballet and Dance Art, as well as a number of films and musicals. Outside Hong Kong, she has choreographed for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Crossover Dance Company in Taipei, Contempodanza and Ballet Estudio in Mexico City, Guangdong Modern Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre.
In July 2000, LAI was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Hong Kong SAR Government. Other awards include Badge of Honour from the Queen of the United Kingdom (1995). In 2002, LAI was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance. In 2003, she received the Award for Arts Achievement (Dance) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for her contributions towards arts development in Hong Kong.
Female Singer (Maria) Jeannie CHIANG
Jeannie CHIANG, Taiwanese Soprano, got her master degree from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in U.S.A.in after graduating from Taipei National University of Art with the bachelor degree. Since then, she has engaged in various performances and become one of the most active singers in Taiwan.
Concerts and operas at home and abroad she has been invited to perform included Budapest Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), Ningbo Symphony Orchestra (Zhejiang Province, China), JiangSu Performing Arts Group Symphony Orchestra (Zhejiang Province, China), Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra(NSO), Taipei Symphony Orchestra(TSO), Taipei Philharmonic Foundation(TPF), National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra(NTSO), Evergreen Symphony Orchestra(ESO) etc.
She has made her debut as Mimi in La Bohème, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Amina in La Sonnambula, Salud in La Vida Breve, and Marguerite in Faust.
In addition, over the years Jeannie has performed as Soprano solo in Mozart's C Minor Mass and Webber Requiem with Conductor GáborHollerung, Music Exchange Faculty concert with ShangHai conservatory of music. KAO Man-ching in Sunlight after snowfall with conductor CHIEN Wen-pin in Hong Kong culture center and Taichung Opera House.
Male Singer (Cantor) | YEH Chan-yu
Graduated from the Bachelor degree in Biotechnology from Kaohsiung Medical University, the Master program in Voice at Tunghai University, where YEH Chan-yu studied with Dr. HSU Yi-lin and CHENG Cheng-fang. He cooperated with
with National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), National Taichung Theater (NTT), National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra(NTSO), Taipei Symphony Orchestra(TSO), NTCH Opera studio, and Taipei Philharmonic Chorus (TPC).
The Roles in Opera he played including: Schaunard in La Boheme, Danilo in Die Lustige Witwe ,Riff in West side story, Donner in Das Rheingold, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Silvglia, Montano in Otello, Betto in Gianni Schicchi, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Ramfis in Aida, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Alfonso and Guglielmo in Cosi fan Tutte, Lakai in Ariadne auf Naxos, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. Yeh also performed as a soloist in Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium, Haydn's The Creations, Mahler's Das klagende Lied, Brahm's Ein deutsches Requiem, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Beethoven's Mass in C major, Symphony no.9, Handel's Messiah, and Bruckner's Te Deum Laudamus. Mass NO.3
Narrator (Duende) | Ricardo CANZIO
Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies (musicology) from the London School of Oriental & African Studies. Earlier on had studied Indian Music, Hindi and Indian Philosophies in Benares Hindu University, India.
Professor of Musicology at National Taiwan University (now retired). Previously taught at Universität Basel, Switzerland, Université de Paris VIII and the Universities of São Paulo and Bahia in Brazil.
Born in Buenos Aires he had his early training in Piano and Composition at the University of Rosario and worked as a jazz player and arranger. He also plays and sings tango.
Published numerous articles on ethnomusicology (Brazilian aborigines, Bangladesh tribals, Indian rhythms) and also produced a number of CD's with researched noted on Brazilian popular music, Tibetan Opera and Tibetan Buddhist Chant. His most recent publication is a commented translation from the Tibetan of Sakya Pandita's Treatise on Music.
The performance is co-produced by Weiwuying and City Contemporary Dance Company.
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Sponsor
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- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 110 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- This program on 9/14(Sat)14:30 is a live streaming performance from Kaohsiung where the actual start time and interval may vary depending on the actual situation.
The presenter reserves the right to change or cancel the event as necessary. - Age guidance 7+
- Performed in Spanish with both Mandarin and English surtitles
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- 7/26(Mon)12:00 to 8/2(Mon)12:00 25% off for Weiwuying member
- 8/2(Mon)12:00 to 8/16(Mon)12:00 25% off for sales
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
