Shanghai International Arts Festival (CSIAF) celebrates its 19^th year with a three-day program of some of the finest classical and orchestral music to reach Shanghai.

 

Hosted near the banks of the Huangpu and boasting a sterling program for each day, this is a sure-fire good time for everyone, from the cognoscenti to the curious.

 

 

 

 

 Lucerne Festival Orchestra is composed of internationally acclaimed principals, chamber musicians, and music teachers, as well as members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Filarmonica Della Scala.

 

Formed in the summer of 2003, by Italian conductor Claudio Abbado and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger, the interim has seen a carousel of acclaim, awards, television appearances, and specially commissioned videos and DVDs throughout Europe and the wider world.

 

The Music Director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2016, Chaily hasn’t wasted a moment in sharing the experience of a lifelong obsession with classical music.

 

He studied at the Conservatories of Perugia, Rome, and Milan and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, before beginning his career as an assistant to Claudio Abbado at La Scala in Milan. Chailly was appointed Music Director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1980, and in 1988 he moved to the same position with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, which he helmed for sixteen years. From 2005 to 2016, Riccardo Chailly served as head of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; before beginning his current post.

 

 

Program：

1. Overture to The Flying Dutchman（Richard Wagner)

2. Piano Concerto in C Minor, K.491（W.A.Mozart）

3. Soloist: Haochen Zhang

4. La Valse（Maurice Ravel）

5. Bolero（Maurice Ravel）

 

 

Rainbow Chamber Singers, a Shanghai-based amateur choir, has seen its stock rise rapidly since its 2016 hit Where On Earth Did You Leave the Key, Zhang Shichao? – and they’re touring again back with a fresh hit: Travels in White Horse Village.

Already very popular amongst local audiences, it has had praise lavished upon it from near and far, with many taking to social media to continue discussion of a piece that invokes idyllic rural scenes and a nostalgia for a simpler, pre-urban landscape.

 

 

Founded in 2010 by the choir's conductor, Jin Chengzhi, and a small group of his Shanghai Conservatory of Music classmates, the Rainbow Chamber Singers now has a well-established reputation for quirky songs that are definitively unconventional for Chinese choirs.  

While choirs here, even these days, usually perform songs that exalt nationalism, the Rainbow Chamber Singers instead perform lighthearted tunes with amusing lyrics. Yet while the content may be cheerful, the choir is serious and its fifty-six members are pitch perfect.

 

 

 

Having been forged in the auditoriums of Naples more than a quarter of a century ago, The Nova Scala Symphony Orchestra (NOS) is now well-established as a world class orchestra. Their performances of the Italian classics, Verdi and Bellini especially, really take some beating – close your eyes and you’ll almost feel the Capri sunshine.

 

 

The Sicilian Choir was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Catania. The choir members come from various cities in Sicily and are comfortable on all manners of stage, be it at a provincial, national or world-class opera house.

 

 

Program：

1. Rossini – IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

2. Sinfonia

3. Vincenzo Bellini – NORMA

4. Sinfonia

5. Guerra! Guerra!

6. Verdi – LA TRAVIATA

7. Preludio

8. Coro di zingarelle e mattadori

9. Verdi – LA FORZA DEL DESTINO

10. Verdi – NABUCCO

11. Va’, pensiero, sull’ali dorate

12. Rossini – LA GAZZA LADRA

13. OUVERTURE

14. Verdi – IL TROVATORE

15. Vedi, le fosche notturne spoglie

16. Mascagni – CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

17. INTERMEZZO

18. Regina coeli; Inneggiamo il Signor non è morto

19. Bizet – CARMEN

20. Ouverture

21. Canzone del gelsomino – Tradizionale cinese

22. KALMAN – LA PRINCIPESSA DELLA CZARDA

23. Mamma bel core

 

*The program is subjected to change