Imagine La Fenice’s “Tosca,” the Mariinsky Theatre’s “Aida,” and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s “Der Rosenkavalier” all taking place at one venue, within less than a month of one another, on the same stage. The list could easily resemble an operatic counterpart to the Lucerne Festival or the tenth anniversary season of the Elbphilharmonie, where major […]
Author Archives: Rudolph Tang (唐若甫)
… is an independent music journalist and critic based in Shanghai, where he was born in 1980. His journalism and criticism has appeared in Musical America, FT Chinese, das Orchester and elsewhere.
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On and Off the Menu
No, I didn’t attend any of the 11 concerts—four orchestral and seven chamber music—given by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during its residency in Shanghai at the end of June. Dubbed the orchestra’s “first residency” in China by the press and the China Shanghai International Arts Festival (CSIAF) which hosted the orchestra, around 135 musicians and […]
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Why Corruption Plagues Chinese Conservatories
In April, Xue Wei, a former professor of violin at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing, posted on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media channel, to accuse Tong Weidong, the current dean of the orchestral instrument department at the same conservatory, of sexual abuse toward students and corruption in the entrance examination process. […]