A Dialogue of Music With Huiling ZHU 与女中音朱慧玲的对话

The Shanghai-born mezzo-soprano, Huiling ZHU graduated from the High School affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, and Musikhochschule Stuttgart, where she made her Bachelor, Master and Soloist (Doctor) degrees of Lieder and Opera.

She made her operatic debut in Offenbach’s La Perichole in Graz (Austria) in 2003. Her repertoires include Carmen, Werther, Così fan Tutte, Barbe-Bleue, Rheingold, The Wilderness etc., as well as the operettas, in different opera houses such as in Stuttgart, Zürich and Hyogo etc.

In 2013, Huiling ZHU made her opera China debut in NCPA with Les Contes d’Hoffmann. As an opera singer, she’s invited by different orchestras and opera houses in China, such as NCPA, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO), Central Opera House, singing Andrea Chénier (Bersi), Tannhäuser (Venus), L’Heure Espagnole, Carmen, etc.

From the season 17/18, under the direction of Yu Long, Zhang Yi, Tang Muhai, Lv Shaojia, Lv Jia, Zhang Jiemin, Manfred Honeck and etc., she collaborated with China Symphony Orchestra and China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Central Ballet Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and other orchestras to perform Mahler’s No. 2, No. 3 and No. 8 Symphony, Das Liede von der Erde and Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Verdi’s Requiem di Messa, the world premiere of Xiaogang YE’s Symphonies No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6, SSO New Year’s Concert in 2018, Beijing New Year’s Concerts 2019 and 2020, etc. In 2018 Huiling ZHU joined the world premiere of Tan Dun’s The Buddha Passion as the alto solo with Munich Philharmonic, in LA (Gustavo Dudamel) and toured in Melbourne and Hong Kong. Since 2017, she was invited to participate in the Gala concerts tour of “World Human Rights Day” and the “Silk Road” organized by the United Nations in Geneva Switzerland and other countries.

Besides singing, Huiling ZHU is also the art director of the charity association Siftung Chinesische Nachwuchskünstler in Germany, the judge of the Timmendorf Music Competition in Germany, and the judge of the Chinese Music Golden Bell Awards 2019.

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