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Tunghai University-News--Tunghai Department of Music brought La Traviata on stage at National Taichung Theater
Tunghai Department of Music brought La Traviata on stage at National Taichung Theater
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- Date : 2017-06-03
On Friday June 2, 2017, the Department of Music of Tunghai University brought on stage at National Taichung Theater the famous opera La Traviata. The department invited the honorable tenor Scott Piper to join the performance. The opera was directed by Professor Szu-Chao Chen and conducted by Dr. Annie Chung. Soprano Yi-Lin Hsu took on the role of Violetta while Piper played Alfredo. Chan-Yu Yeh played the role of Violetta’s father, Germont. The three performers led an orchestra of 140 teachers and students, bringing the opera to life.
Dr. Piper is a lirico spinto. His rich, resonant voice and charismatic stage presence has established him as an opera's romantic leading charactor, performing in Tosca, Carmen, Madama Butterfly, Cavalleria Rusticana, Turandot, Norma, Otello, Aïda, Pagliacci, Rigoletto, Vanessa, La Bohème, Lucia di Lammermoor, Faust, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Manon Lescaut, Jenůfa, and more. His artistry has been heard throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. He also appears as Alfredo in the DVD of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of La traviata, conducted by Placido Domingo and filmed in Busseto, home to Giuseppe Verdi.
Four excerpt performances of the show had been on stage at the National Taichung Theater on April 22 and May 20, 2017. It was also performed on Mothers’ Day, May 14, in the Tunghai Music Theater. These five performances were played by outstanding students of the Department of Music, with graduate student Yu-Han Hsu being the conductor. The shows stroke overwhelming success.
Since its establishment in 1971, Tunghai’s Department of Music has produced many large-scale operas, including Magic Flute, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Die Fledermaus, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Mikado, Suor Angelica, Bastien und Bastienne, Cosi fan tutte, and La Serva Padrona. This time, the department invited internationally well-known tenor, Scott Piper, to teach and perform for music lovers in Taichung and Taiwan.
The Department of Music also thrives to cultivate musically talented students. Currently internationally active professional singers I-Chao Shih, soprano soloist Karen Ho, and domestically famous singers Mei-Ling Chen, Pei-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Hsu, Tseng-Ming Lee, Claude Lin, Chung-Kuang Lin, and Chan-Yu Yeh are all Tunghai alumni. We believe that with solid trainings the students today will also become stars on the stage in the future.