Music

Artist Talk: Vocal Arts of Opera

Artist: Frank Flade（Germany）

Time: 14:00-16:00,10th August 2019

Place: BACA Art Centre

Western Opera like Chinese drama is a staged performing art, which expresses a narrative by singing and music. Created from music (vocal and instrumental), drama (script and performance), literature (poetry), dance (folk dance and ballet), stage design and so on. This representation composed arias, recitative, ensembles, choruses, preclude, interclude, dance scenes, etc.

BACA Art Centre is very honoured to invite Mr Frank Flade from Germany to conduct an artist talk “The Vocal Arts of Opera” for vocalists and opera enthusiasts. In the talk, Mr Flade will share famous arias from opera with the public. Through “The Vocal Arts of Opera”, BACA Art Centre is hoping to give you the pleasure of exploring opera art this summer.

Furthermore, BACA Art Centre will provide the public with a unique experience with Mr Frank Flade. We will select four people from the public to work with Mr Flade closely. In this interactive section, Mr Flade will show the arts of opera from various perspectives of interpretation, including language, pronunciation, content, stylistics and emotion. If you want to have this unique experience, please send your video or audio recording to gloria.guan@ual.org.cn！

Requirements:

- Students from art colleges, universities and above.

- Language of songs: German or Italian.

Type of songs: arias or art songs.

Audio or video recording limited to two songs.

Deadline for registration of interactive section is 5th August 2019, the list will be confirmed by 6th August 2019.

Artist: Frank Flade

Born in Dessau of Germany, studied choral and orchestral arts in Weimar, Berlin and Salzburg. During his studies he was an art director of the University Orchestra in Salzburg. After that, he cooperated with Chinese Symphony Orchestra such as Wuhan Symphony Orchestra and National Ballet of China. He was responsible for rehearsal and conductor at the State Opera of Dresden and choir director at the Theater Aachen.

Within the season November 2010, he began his engagement as deputy director of choir and art director of the concert choir of the State Opera of Berlin. Also, Frank Flade worked with worldwide top conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Massimo Zanetti and Andris Nelsons. Since 2012, Frank Flade has successfully led the youth choir of the State Opera of Berlin. He regularly conducts youth concert and choir concert performed with members of the State Orchestra. He hosted as a conductor in Italy, France and China. Since September 2017, he has been the conductor and choir director of the Rostock Folk Theatre.

Through the accumulated experience, Frank Flade emphasizes the fully expression and innovation of art. This expression requires not only the inheritance of classics but also the artist's own breakthrough and innovation, to make music have more personality and vitality. At the meanwhile, Frank Flade appreciates the cooperation with Chinese musicians for these years and hopes to help more and more Chinese musicians shining in the international arena.

For registration please add wechat acount: bacaartcentre

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