The performance featured soprano Wang Xiaoqing as Catherine (Pomme d’Api), baritone Zhai Xiaohan as Rabastens and tenor Lu Yafei as Gustave, with Chen Yiyan as the pianist.
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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 Chinese premiere of Jacques Offenbach’s “Pomme d’Api” opened on 30 June 2023 to a sold-out performance at the Guangzhou Opera House as part of the French Croisements Festival. Set locally in Guangzhou as the story of a small opera company putting on a production of Offenbach’s one-act operetta, this production was extended and adapted from the OperaLab’s French May production in Hong Kong in 2022, and included a world premiere score for chamber ensemble by Marco Iannelli, the addition of six additional selections from two other Offenbach operettas, “La Périchole” and “Pépito” and new Chinese dialogue.
The performance featured soprano Wang Xiaoqing as Catherine (Pomme d’Api), baritone Zhai Xiaohan as Rabastens and tenor Lu Yafei as Gustave. Zheng Honghao conducted and with Chen Yiyan as the pianist.
OperaLab’s “Pomme d’Api” has been adapted for a new run at the Guangzhou Opera House and part of the Croisements Festival. It includes a new score for chamber ensemble by Marco Iannelli, additional selections from “La Périchole” and a new “play-within-a-play staging”.