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HBSO to host New Year Concert 2024

Soloists of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform a concert at the Opera House on January 6 to welcome the New Year.
HBSO to host New Year Concert 2024 ảnh 1MUSIC FOR 2024 - The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will host the New Year Concert 2024 at the HCM City Opera House on January 6.(Photo courtesy of HBSO)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Soloists of the HCM City Ballet SymphonyOrchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform a concert at the Opera House on January6 to welcome the New Year.

The New Year Concert 2024 will present 18 songs representing orrelated to Spanish and Italian Pop Opera, a music genre that blends elements ofclassical opera with contemporary pop music started in the early 1900s.

One of its features is using operatic vocal techniques, such asbel canto and vibrato, in performing contemporary pop songs.

The night will highlight many popular soundtracks such as Don’t Cry for MeArgentina from the 1996 film Evita, Nella Fantasia from the 1986 film The Mission, Oblivion from the1984 Italian film EnricoIV, and other pop songs.

The programme will also include compositions that were influencedby the genre such as SpanishDance by Tchaikovsky, Tango In D, Op 165, No 2 by Isaac Albéniz, and Daz’s Danzón No 2 byArturo Márquez.

The performance will feature tenors Pham Trang and Tran Thanh Nam,baritone Dao Mac, and sopranos Duyen Nguyet and Pham Khanh Ngoc, along withother HBSO soloists, and its choir and symphony orchestra.

Violinist Tang Thanh Nam and oboist Pham Khanh Toan will perform at the concertas well.

Conductor Le Phi Phi, who is visiting from North Macedonia, will lead theconcert.

Phi earned a master degree from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1993.

He has performed with many popular artists, symphony orchestras, choirs,musical, theatres, and ballets in Europe.

He has also offered training courses for young musicians at many conservatoriesin North Macedonia.

He has often returned to Vietnam to perform with the Vietnam National SymphonyOrchestra, the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra (HBSO), and the Hà NộiPhilharmonic Orchestra, and conduct national concerts such as “Dieu Con Mai”(Remaining with Time) and “Xuan Que Huong” (Homeland Spring).

He is currently teaching at the State Music and Ballet School Centre IlijaNikolovski-Luj in North Macedonia.

The concert will begin at 8 pm at 7 Lam Son Square in District 1. Tickets areavailable at the venue./.
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