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The 20th performance of the Guangzhou Opera House’s Rita took place on 5 October 2023 with Italian Consul-General Valerio de Parolis in attendance. Marco Iannelli composed a medley of highlights that was performed as an encore. Xing Xingyuan starred as Rita, tenor Lin Junliang as Beppe and baritone Zhong Haodong as Gasparo. The production premiered in June 2022.
Pomme d’Api, which had a sold-out run from 30 June to 2 July 2023, returns to the Guangzhou Opera stage for six performances starting 29 September. These will be followed by two more performances of Rita, the hit opera that debuted in 2022. The performance on 5 October marks the 20th performance of this production.
On Sunday, 17 September 2023, the Guangzhou Opera House in cooperation with the Kirine cultural complex presented arias, duets and trios from their critically-acclaimed productions of Gaetano Donizetti’s Rita and Jacques Offenbach’s Pomme d’Api in a lakeside venue in Guangzhou’s South China National Botanical Garden. Performing were sopranos Wang Xiaoqing and Xing Xinyuan, baritones Zhai Xiaohan and Zhong Haodong and tenor Lu Yafei and Lin Junliang as Gustave.
The Guangzhou Opera House is reprising “Rita” with six additional performances. Details here.