Beibei Wang —Operatic Soprano
王蓓蓓 歌剧女高音歌唱家
Acclaimed Chinese-born Operatic Soprano Beibei Wang, She has performed in major music venues and landmarks in the UK, including the Royal Albert Hall, O2, Kensington Palace, and the Houses of Parliament. She is the first Chinese artist to be invited to perform as the lead soprano in the Christmas concert of the world-famous art landmark Royal Albert Hall on its 150th anniversary. She has also made her name by excellent interpretation at the title role of Madama Butterfly and the title role of Suor Angelica in London. She also received numerous awards, more recently , 2017 Big Ben Global 10 Outstanding Young Chinese Award, The First British Chinese Culture and Arts Award，Leap award for arts at 20th Anniversary of Phoenix TV and 10th Anniversary of Phoenix Weekly, Roy Pleasance Singing Competition and Mario Lanza international singing competition. Beibei has appeared venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Palace, Shanghai Concert Hall, Wuxi Grand Theatre, Shenzhen Concert Hall, O2, the Cadogan Hall, the Southbank Centre, the St John’s Smith Square, Apollo theatre, Hackney Empire, the Fishmongers Hall, the Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Mermaid Theatre, the Duke’s Hall etc. in repertoire spanning the Bel Canto, Romantic and Verismo styles, and having interviewed and broadcasted by CCTV, China Daily, Nouvelles d’Europe, The BBC and BBC Radio 4.
Beibei is also the judging panel of “Chinese song UK” “The voice of London” famous “Super girl” competition UK and judging panel of the first UK-China summer music festival. Principal Soprano of London International Sinfonia, Artistic Director of UK China performing arts society and the UK Chinese Choir. Beibei has been praised as” The Messenger of Sino – British Cultural Exchange” by Cultural Monthly. She has been chosen as celebrity endorsement of the UK for China’s most prestigious national tv CCTV -4 Chinese International Channel overseas. She also been Cover people at famous Phoenix Weekly magazine after winning the Leap award for arts.
Studied at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music and on graduating sang as a soloist with the Shenzen Music Association, appearing in cities in South China as well as in Hong Kong and Macau. She then went to Italy to study on a training scheme attached to La Scala, Milan, for two years under the tutelage of Maria Luisa Cioni and Nicoletta Zanini. After she won a scholarship from the UK, She then moved to Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where obtained her Master of music, subsequently in Royal Northern College of Music, where she gained her Postgraduate Diploma in solo performance with distinction , in London she was a recipient of Trinity College London Scholar and studied Artist Diploma with Peter Knapp at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
王蓓蓓，著名旅英华人歌剧女高音歌唱家。她的演出足迹遍布英国各大著名音乐场馆及重要地标，包括皇家艾尔伯特音乐大厅、O2、肯辛顿皇宫、英国国会大厦等。她是首位华人艺术家受邀世界著名艺术地标Royal Albert Hall 建成150周年作为首席女高音出演圣诞音乐会。深入人心的普契尼歌剧《蝴蝶夫人》中第一女主角乔巧桑和《修女安洁丽卡》的扮演者，数度在伦敦西区成功上演。曾在国内外众多比赛中获奖，英国首届音乐玫瑰奖获得者、凤凰卫视美动华人颁奖年度“艺术飞跃奖”、2017大本钟奖全球十大杰出青年奖，罗伊·普莱森斯和马里奥·兰扎国际声乐比赛最受推荐奖等。连续多年担任“文化中国、水立方杯”中文歌曲大赛英国赛区的主要评委。2018伦敦《好声音》、《英伦之巅》、2017《唱响英伦》、英国《南部好声音》评委、2016《超级女声》英国赛区评委以及首届英中夏季音乐节的评委。伦敦国际交响乐团首席女高音，东西艺术倡议和英中演艺协会艺术总监。BBC、BBC Radio4、China Daily 欧洲时报以及央视国际等都曾对她做过专题报导。曾有媒体称她是“用心唱出音乐灵魂的中国歌唱家”“中欧文化交流的使者” 伦敦市长曾为她颁发奖杯表彰她在中英文化交流中所做出的突出贡献。2018年由侯德健作曲、蒋开儒作词、意大利作曲家Andrea Granitzio和Emanuele Contis交响乐编曲的《中国梦》由她全球首唱并成功在英国伦敦世界首演，继而在英国国会大厦、世界著名剧场O2、哈克尼帝国剧院、英国怀特宫、伦敦金融城中国农历新年庆典、美人鱼剧院、摄政大厅、朴茨茅斯市政厅大厦等多次唱响《中国梦》，中国驻英大使馆赞誉她是在海外讲好中国故事的优秀艺术家典范，中外媒体称她中西方文化的完美转换是文化交流的美丽化身。2015年伦敦世界华人峰会唯一被邀请的艺术家，2016年她被授予艺术飞跃奖后登上凤凰生活杂志封面以及封面人物，2017年她被选中作为央视CCTV中文国际宣传片英国唯一华人代表。2023年受邀亮相上海国际艺术节。
本科毕业于广州星海音乐学院声乐系，之后随意大利米兰斯卡拉歌剧院泰斗级歌剧大师玛利亚.路易莎. 乔尼及尼克莱塔. 扎尼尼等深造传统意大利歌剧，后荣获多家英国音乐学院奖学金，分别在皇家伯明翰音乐学院、皇家北方音乐学院、圣三一音乐学院完成音乐硕士学位，独唱家和高级艺术家文凭。她的表演质朴纯真、深邃大气近年来还出演了歌剧及歌剧片段斯美塔娜《被出卖的新嫁娘》的玛简卡，《托斯卡》、《图兰朵》中的柳儿、贝利尼《卡普莱特与蒙太古》里的朱丽叶、莫扎特《女人心》里的费奥德丽姬、亨德尔《Rinaldo》里的Armida、威尔第《茶花女》里的维奥莱塔、《游吟诗人》里的莱奥诺拉等众多其他歌剧角色。在音乐会领域亦有出色表现如在著名的the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Palace, Shanghai Concert Hall, Wuxi Grand Theatre, Shenzhen Concert Hall, O2, the Cadogan Hall, the Southbank Centre, the St John’s Smith Square, Apollo theatre, Hackney Empire, the Fishmongers Hall, the Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Mermaid Theatre, the Duke’s Hall 等。她极具表现力和穿透力的歌声, 饱满的中低声区和辉煌的高音区，被誉为是难得一遇的普契尼式女高音。
Ebben? ne andro lontana by Catalani at St John’s Smith Square
Rusalka Aria at London Fishmongers Hall
STEPHANIE WINDSOR LEWIS Mezzo Soprano
British mezzo-soprano, Stephanie Windsor-Lewis’ recent and future engagements include SUZUKI Madame Butterfly and ROSMIRA Partenope, both for English National Opera for whom she also covers MADDALENA Rigoletto. She completed her studies as a young artist at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Prior to this she studied at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the Royal College of Music with Ryland Davies and Tim Evans- Jones.
Operatic engagements have included GIOVANNA SEYMOUR Anna Bolena Metropolitan Opera (understudy), ROSINA Il Barbiere di Siviglia, MADAMA ROSA Il Campanello and CIESCA Gianni Schicchi Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, SUZUKI Madame Butterfly and LUCIA La gazza ladra Teatro Comunale di Bologna, La Macchina by Raffaele Grimaldi Biennale di Venezia and Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, and MEG PAGE Falstaff Longborough Opera/Opera Project.
Stephanie’s concert engagements include a gala concert with Josè Carreras in Singapore, where she was a featured soloist, Berio’s Sinfonia for the Lucerne Festival with Pierre Boulez, Handel Dixit Dominus, Haydn Nelson Mass, and de Falla’s El Sombreros des Picos all at St John’s, Smith Square, London and Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria at the Royal Albert Hall.
She won first prizes in the Benvenuto Franci competition and the Premio Crescendo Competition in Florence, and was a finalist in the Ernst Haefliger Competition in Switzerland.
Alberto Suosa Tenor
ALBERTO SOUSA-Tenor
Alberto Sousa was born in Madeira (Portugal). In 2013 he graduated from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Opera Course, where he studied with Laura Sarti.
As an alumnus of the Solti Te Kanawa Accademia di Bel Canto he recorded a CD of Italian songs produced by Richard Bonynge, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Sir Georg Solti’s birth.
Alberto is the proud recipient of the Audience and Runner Up Prizes of the Fulham Opera Verdi Competition, a London-based opera company that then invited him to sing Gabriele in its new production of Simon Boccanegra (Verdi).
The past two years have been excitingly international for Alberto, with a tour of Bel Canto recitals in Japan, La Traviata (Verdi) at the Barga Belcanto Festival (Italy), 3 European tours of Orlando Paladino (Haydn) with Purpur Opera and his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), performing Mozart’s Requiem.
Back in the UK, recent projects have included a national tour of Faust (Gounod) with Swansea City Opera, La Boheme (Puccini) with the Clapham Opera Festival, a concert performance of Butterfly (Puccini) at the Cadogan Hall and covering the title role of The Nose (Shostakovich) at the Royal Opera House.
Future projects include a UK tour of Rigoletto with Regents Opera and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) with Fulham Opera.
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