Don Juan (Spanish) or Don Giovanni (Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra, by Tirso de Molina, is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630. The two best known works about this character today are Don Giovanni an opera written by Lorenzo da Ponte with music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, first performed in 1787 and Don Juan Tenorio, by Jos¨¦ Zorrilla, written in 1844.
Don Juan is a rogue and a libertine who takes great pleasure in seducing women and enjoys fighting their champions. Later, in a graveyard Don Juan encounters a statue of the dead father of a girl he has seduced, and, impiously, invites him to dine with him; the statue gladly accepts. The father's ghost arrives for dinner at Don Juan's house and in turn invites Don Juan to dine with him in the graveyard. Don Juan accepts, and goes to the father's grave where the statue asks to shake Don Juan's hand. When he extends his arm, the statue grabs hold and drags him away, to Hell.
China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra
China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra is one of the most renowned art troupes in China affiliated with China National Opera House. By performing some world famous operas like La traviata, Madama Butterfly and Marco Polo, it is active on the world opera stage. In addition, the orchestra also plays the music by some prestigious musicians such as Beethoven, Debussy, and Shostakovich and has worked with brilliant artists like David Oistrakh and Luciano Pavarotti. As the winner of many awards in both national and international competitions, it maintains a high level in international artistic communications and wins a widespread fame for China National Opera House and provides continuous support for its development.
China National Opera House Chorus
Affiliated with China National Opera House, China National Opera House Chorus, in spite of presenting the works of Palestrina and Sergei Prokofiev, it is also engaged in giving opera performances such as La traviata, Madama Butterfly and The Tales of Hoffmann, as well as Chinese operas Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang and Heroine Liu Hulan, which have won the Chorus high acclaim.
Yu Feng
Not only a famous conductor but also the artistic director of China National Opera House, Yu Feng is the professor of Central Conservatory of Music, Chair of the Conducting Department, Artistic Director of Shenzhen Orchestra, and Vice President and Secretary General of China Conducting Association.
Between 1985 and 1991 he studied at the Conducting Department of Central Conservatory of Music. Under the supervision of Professor Xu Xin and Professor Zheng Xiaoying, he got his Master's degree. In 1991, he achieved first prize in National Conducting Selection Contest. Then, he was dispatched by Ministry of Culture to Portugal to participate in the International Young Conductors' Competition in December and achieved first prize. As an officially dispatched contestant of China, he was the first one who won this international competition. The local media called him as "Master of China", "Victory of Orient" and "Talented Conductor", etc.
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