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Liping Zhang: Arias | EMI 2372502

Liping Zhang: Arias

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Label: EMI

Cat No: 2372502

Barcode: 5099923725027

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 6th October 2008

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Contents

Works

Verdi
Merce dilette Amice from i Vespri Siciliani)

Verdi
D’amor sull’ali rosee (Trovatore)

Verdi
Egli non riede ancora .. non so le tetre immagini (Il Corsaro)

Verdi
El strano! ... Sempre libera (La Traviata)

Bellini
Casta diva (Norma)

Donizetti
The mad scene: Il doce suono mo colpi di sua voce! (Lucia di Lammermoor)

Puccini
Vissi d’arte (Tosca)

Puccini
Un Bel di (Madama Butterfly)

Puccini
La Bel Sogno di Doretta (Rondine)

Artists

Liping Zhang (soprano)
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Giordano Bellincampi

Works

Verdi
Merce dilette Amice from i Vespri Siciliani)

Verdi
D’amor sull’ali rosee (Trovatore)

Verdi
Egli non riede ancora .. non so le tetre immagini (Il Corsaro)

Verdi
El strano! ... Sempre libera (La Traviata)

Bellini
Casta diva (Norma)

Donizetti
The mad scene: Il doce suono mo colpi di sua voce! (Lucia di Lammermoor)

Puccini
Vissi d’arte (Tosca)

Puccini
Un Bel di (Madama Butterfly)

Puccini
La Bel Sogno di Doretta (Rondine)

Artists

Liping Zhang (soprano)
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Giordano Bellincampi

About

This is the debut CD by the Chinese-born soprano Liping Zhang whose interpretations of the belcanto and lyric repertoire have established her as a leading light in today’s opera world. The programme showcases arias by Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti and Bellini, including Vissi d’arte (Tosca), Un bel di (Madama Butterfly), Casta diva (Norma) and The Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor. The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Giordano Bellincampi.  

Liping Zhang was born in Wuhan, China, some 650 miles south of Beijing. The daughter of a classical musician and a dancer, she studied dance before entering the Wuhan Conservatoire as a voice student. While continuing her studies at the Beijing Conservatoire, she was selected to sing with Plácido Domingo in Tian'anmen Square. Subsequently, Zhang moved to Vancouver, Canada, where, as a member of Vancouver Opera's Young Artist Program, she performed the roles of Mimi (La bohème), Leila (Les pêcheurs de perles), Liù (Turandot), Marguerite (Faust) and Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) throughout the country. She has made her home in London since 1997.

Closely associated with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where her debut in 2002 caused a sensation, Liping has appeared in its productions of Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Lucia di Lammermoor, La bohème and Carmen. The Sunday Telegraph remarked that: "The biggest round of applause went to the Liù of Liping Zhang, whose sumptuous soprano had us hanging on her every note.” Hugh Canning wrote in Opera Magazine of her performance in La bohème, "I was delighted to encounter her lovely, stylishly sung Mimi.” Of her Lucia, The London Times said, “Liping Zhang gave us a heroine of exceptional eloquence and intensity, no drooping lily but a vital, suffering, deeply touching creature whose élans and agonies raised the work momentarily to a higher plane”.

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