Born in Shanghai, the tenor Shi Yijie began his vocal studies in his native city and graduated with top marks at the Toho College of Music in Tokyo. After having won a fellowship offered by Toho Postgraduate School of Music, he moved to Europe to continue his studies in Graz. He has won several international vocal competitions, including the Graz 'Ferruccio Tagliavini' International Singing Competition, the Toti dal Monte International Competition in Treviso in 2007, the Festspielstadt Passau Competition and, also in 2007, the Maria Caniglia International Singing Competition in Sulmona. He has achieved considerable success in leading Rossini rôles in Pesaro and has already appeared at major international opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence, the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, the Teatro Comunale, Bologna, and at theatres in Spain, France, Holland and South America, in a career of growing distinction.

 

 

Tenor: Shi Yijie
Piano: Gianni Fabbrini

 

Huang Zi: Nostalgia 2'
Huang Zi: Three Wishes for a Rose 3'
Huang Zi: Tune: Rouged Lips - On Ascending the Tower 2'
Zhao Yuanren: How Can I Help But Think of You 4'
Liu Xue'an: Red Bean Poem 3'
Qing Zhu: My Sentiments to the Yangtze River 2'
Qing Zhu: East Flows the Yangtze River 4'
Zhao Jiping: Crying Ospreys 4'
Li Yinghai: A Night Mooring By Maple Bridge 3'
Huang Yongxi: Yearning 3'

- Intermission - 

Bellini: “A te, o cara”, from I Puritani 6'
Rossini: “Oh Dio!…Ah! segnar invano io tento”, from Tancredi 9'
Donizetti: “Fra poco a me ricovero”, from Lucia di Lammermoor 6'
Verdi:“Ella mi fu rapita!...Parmi veder le lagrime...Possente amor mi chiama”, from Rigoletto 7'
Donizetti: “Ah! mes amis”, from La fille du régiment 6'