Yu Shao

Tenor

After four years at the Shangai Conservatory of Music in the class of Wu bo, Yu Shao graduated in 2008. He chose France to continue his training and formation the same year. In 2010, he passed the Radio-France Chorus competition. In 2011, he achieved his diploma in singing, solfeggio and chamber music at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de La Courneuve-Aubervilliers. He worked on his vocal technic with Eléonore Jost et de Leontina Vaduva. In 2012, he entered the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel of Belgium and perfected his singing with José Van Dam. He won the Fourth Prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2014 and the Third Prize of the Toulouse Competition the same year . In 2018 He won the first male Prize of vocal competition of Bordeaux. He entered the Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris in 2014 and played Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride, Gluck) at the Théâtre de Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte, Mozart) at the Maison des Arts de Créteil and at the Théâtre Anthéa d’Antibes, a Gizmo in a Joanna Lee’s opera, Way back home directed by Kathy Mitchell and Pastore in Monteverdi’s Orfeo directed by Julie Berès at the Amphithéâtre of Bastille Opéra. In 2016 and 2017, he played the Messager (Aïda,Verdi) and Normano (Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti) at the Opéra National de Paris, Steuermann (Die Fliegende Höllander, Wagner) at the Opéra de Lille and Benedict (Le timbre d’argent, Saint-Saëns) at the Opéra Comique.In 2017/2018, Yu Shao performed recitals at the Opéra de Lille and at the Amphithéâtre of Bastille Opéra. He played Ruiz (Il Trovatore, Verdi) at the Opéra de Paris and at the Opéra de Bordeaux. He also played the sailor’s chief, a donkey-driver, the first muezzin and the first policeman in Marouf by Henri Rabaud. In 2019, he plays the role of Steuermann in Wagner’s opera Der fliegende Hollände in Opéra de Renne et Nantes Angers Opéra . In July he gave a récital in Les Estivales de Musique en Médoc. He sang “Tamino” and “Monostatos”in the production of L’Aventure de Papageno in Opéra de Nantes Angers in 2019 . In summer 2022, he will sing Ismael in Nabucco in the DomStufen Festapiele Erfurt. With Opéra comique de Paris he will sing a tour in China and in Paris as Marcellus and Deuxième Fossoyeur in Hamlet and Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette. Recently he will be with Opéra de Paris singing Ruiz in Il Trovatore.

Updated on 06 november 2020

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