Internationally acclaimed conductor Honna Tetsuji will lead a concert featuring works by great composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Sergei Rachmaninov at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on June 9.
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Internationally acclaimedconductor Honna Tetsuji will lead a concert featuring works by great composersWolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Sergei Rachmaninov at the Ho Chi Minh City OperaHouse on June 9.
The concert will highlight Mozart’s PianoConcerto No. 21, which was completed in 1785, featuring young pianist LeTrang Linh.
Born in 2007 in Hanoi, Linh began studying piano at the VietnamNational Academy of Music (VNAM) when she was seven. She is currentlya student at the Colburn Music Academy in the US.
Linh has won music competitions in Japan, Italy, the UK, the USand Poland.
The concert will also present the overture from Mozart’s two-actcomic opera Cosi fan tutte (oftentranslated as “All Women Do the Same”), which was first performed in 1790 atthe Burgtheater in Vienna.
The second part of the night will feature Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 45.
The four-movement work was completed in 1940, and premiered at thePhiladelphia Orchestra in 1941.
Both works will be performed by the HCM City Ballet SymphonyOrchestra and Opera's (HBSO) symphony orchestra.
Conductor Tetsuji served as permanent conductor of the OsakaSymphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra.
He was appointed music advisor and conductor of the VietnamNational Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) from 2001-2009, and then the orchestra'smusic director from 2011.
He took the VNSO to perform at New York's Carnegie Hall and BostonSymphony Hall in the US, the Capella Paolina chapel and Italian PresidentialPalace in Italy, and the Grand Hall of the Moscow State TchaikovskyConservatory in Russia.
Tetsuji has conducted numerous orchestras worldwide such as LaScala Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg of Austria.
The concert will begin at 8pm at 7 Lam Son Square in district 1.Tickets are available at the venue and at www.ticketbox.vn./.
The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform its ‘Nights of Film Music’ concert at the city’s Opera House on July 16-19.
The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will present a classical music concert, featuring chamber works by a number of well-known French composers, at the Saigon Opera House on August 14.
The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will stage the classical ballet Giselle at the municipal Opera House in the evening of October 21 and 22.
The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) on March 27 announced that the ballet suite “Carmen” will be performed in the city on April 2 at the Saigon Opera House.
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Vietnam continues to sit just behind continental powerhouses Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, China, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Nhập Illustrative photo (Photo: HBSO) 
