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Candice Chung

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Soprano Candice Chung studied at Manhattan School of Music under Metropolitan Opera’s Mark Oswald and renowned American soprano Ashley Putnam.  She also obtained a Masters of Music degree at Eastman School of Music, where she trained with American mezzo-soprano Katherine Ciesinski.  Candice is a 2014 national finalist at the Classical Singer Vocal Competition in the United States and was awarded first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Regional Competition.  She also won third place in the 34th Annual Jessie Kneisel Lieder Competition, and received the Encouragement Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions in 2015. 

Candice appeared as Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief and Emily in Our Town with the Eastman Opera Theatre while in the US.  She also played Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel and Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus with the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.  She made her Italian debut as Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro in 2017.

Upon her return to Hong Kong, Candice made her recital debut under the presentation of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s “Our Music Talents” Series in 2017.   Her concert performances include Dvorak’s Te Deum, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Bach’s Magnificat in D, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Handel’s Messiah, to name a few.  She was also a member of Opera Hong Kong Young Artist Development and Education Programme from 2019-22, and now performs regularly with Opera Hong Kong.  Her recent roles include Norina in Don Pasquale, Micaela in Carmen and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. 

With Bel Canto Singers, an innovative Hong Kong-based collective which draws on the city’s multicultural identity to amplify local voices, Candice has created the role of Swallow in the original musical The Happy Prince & The Other Wise Man in 2018, and the character Liu in My Beloved, an all-Puccini jukebox opera in 2021. She most recently played the role of Hanna in The Merry Party, another jukebox opera weaving together Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow and Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, with an original Cantonese script.  

Candice also premiered the role of Ah Sei in Kungfood in 2023, the chamber opera being one of the first classical western-style operas written in Cantonese, composed by Chan Hing-yan and directed by Tomo Sugao. And in June 2023, she was invited to sing in the world premiere of Tan Dun’s Requiem for Nature in Holland Festival with the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra in Amsterdam, where she sang the role of the Deer of Nine Colors to critical acclaim.

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女高音鍾嘉欣畢業於曼哈頓音樂學院和伊斯曼音樂學院。她的舞台演出包括在香港的《唐．帕斯夸莱》中飾演諾麗娜，《女人皆如此》中飾演菲奧迪麗吉，在意大利的《費加洛的婚禮》中飾演女伯爵，以及在美國的《蝙蝠》中飾演羅莎琳達。其它的角式還包括《瑪儂》中的主角以及《卡門》中的米凱拉。2023年，鍾氏受邀於荷蘭音樂節與皇家音樂廳樂團世界首演譚盾的《大自然安魂曲》，演出「九色鹿」一角，獲好評如潮。鍾氏亦於音樂會上擔任獨唱，其中包括於紐約演出德伏扎克的《讚美頌》和貝多芬的《C大調彌撒曲》，以及在香港演出巴赫的《D大調聖母讚主曲》和柯夫的《布蘭詩歌》。

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