Ming Yuan 's New Recital
Regina Chinese Singers Annual Concert
on June 25th, 2000
Present by Regina Chinese Singers
Place: Knox-Metropolitan United Church
2340 Victoria Avenue, Regina SK Canada
Time: Sunday, June 25th, 2000, at 3:00 PM
As several voice recitals and Access Communications cable recording for the the Conservatory of Music & Dance was very successful, Ming Yuan is invited as a guest performer to sing three arias again on the annual concert for Regina Chinese Singers.
Ming as a guest performer standing in the middle of the choir.
Ming's Program at the Concert
"Song to the Moon"
-- From Dvorak's Opera [Rusalka]
Moon high up in the sky
you light up vast distances
you wander through the wide, wide world
looking into the homes of men
stay awhile, moon,
tell me, oh tell me where my beloved is!
Tell him, silver moon,
that my arms embrace him
so that at least in his dreams
he may remember me
Shine for him in far away places
shine for him,
tell him, oh tell him who is waiting here!
If he dreams about me
let that remembrance waken him!
Moon, don't go away, don't go away,
moon, don't go away!
"O Mio Babbino Caro"
-- From Puccini's Opera [Gianni Schicchi]
[Oh, my dear daddy]
Oh, my dear daddy, I like him, he is so handsome;
I want to go to Porta Rossa to buy the ring!
Yes, yes, I do want to go!
And if I were to love him in vain,
I'd go to the Ponte Vecchio
and throw myself in the Arno!
I fret and suffer torments!
Oh, God, I wish I could die!
daddy, have pity, have pity!
Performance Profile
Soprano Ming Yuan used to take voice training classes from soprano Laura Dzubaniuk, who won international vocal competition couple years ago, and then took more voice lessons from Maria Pellegrini, who is international well known opera singer and was the winner of Metropolitan Opera House, for almost three years in Ottawa. And she was lucky to get vocal coaching from Mr.Leon Leung, a formal dean and professor of Royal Conservatory of Music in HongKong, and also from Professor Wang, who came from the Tianjing Conservatory of Music. Ming performed regularly with her piano teacher and accompanies Mr. H.G. Cai together on the Operatic Recitals and Chinese Culture Shows in Ottawa.
After moving to Toronto, Ming took more vocal lessons from Chinese famous soprano Ms. Xiao-Ping Hu, besides working as a webmaster in a office.
Now, Ming takes more voice lessons from a local Tenor Dr. Bev Tillman in the Conservatory of Music & Dance. And she did well performance on previous Voice Recitals on November 20th, 1999, December 4th, 1999, March 26th, 2000 and May 18th, 2000 with those arias of "O mio babbino caro"(from Puccini's opera "Gianni Schicchi"), "Porgi, amore" (from Mozart's opera "le Nozze di Figaro"), "Un bel di vedremo" (from Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly"), "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" (from Puccini's opera "Tosca")...
Ming Yuan took some voice lessons from Ms. Lynn Channing from the Music Department of University of Regina besides her full-time computer programming job. Ming has a good collection of her favorite arias repertoire during these years, and learning more and more...
