YIJIE SHI
Tenor
After having been the revelation of the Rossini Opera Festival 2008, singing as Cavalier Belfiore in Il viaggio
a Reims in the “Accademia Rossiniana” production, he was immediately invited back to Pesaro to sing the
title role in Le Comte Ory at the Rossini Opera Festival 2009, where he has had a warm success imposing
himself on the international scene.
Despite his young age Yijie Shi has already had tremendous success singing at internationally renowned
venues such as New York Metropolitan, Théâtre des Champs Elysées de Paris, Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia di Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino di Firenze, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Deutsche Oper of
Berlin, Opéra de Nancy, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opéra de Lausanne, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia,
Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Festival Mozart de la Coruña, Avenches Festival, Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao and
De Vlaamse Opera of Antwerp, working with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Roberto Abbado, Kent
Nagano and Alberto Zedda.
He opened the 2015/16 season making his role debut as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera in
Florence. Among his future plans are Mozart’s Idomeneo (Arbace) and Die Zauberflöte (Tamino) in Antwerp,
Otello by Rossini at Liceu de Barcelona, Tancredi, Rigoletto and La Cenerentola at Teatro Municipal de
Santiago de Chile, Dream of the Red Chamber by Bright Sheng at San Francisco Opera, Il turco in Italia
(Narciso) at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Gianni Schicchi in Montpellier, Tancredi (Argirio) at Opéra de
Marseille, Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo) and Falstaff (Fenton) at Bejing NCPA.
During the 2014/15 season he performed Rossini’s Guglielmo Tell and Don Pasquale at NCPA in Bejing,
followed by Falstaff (Fenton) at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence under the baton of Zubin Mehta,
L’occasione fa il ladro (Conte Alberto) at Théâtre des Champs Elysées de Paris, and Il barbiere di Siviglia
(Conte d’Almaviva) at Avenches Festival.
During the last two seasons 2013/14 he performed L’elisir d’amore (Nemorino) at the Teatro La Fenice di
Venezia, La Favorite (Ferdinand) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, I Puritani (Artubro) at Teatro
Pergolesi di Jesi, Die Zauberflöte (Tamino) at the De Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Rigoletto (Duca di
Montava) at Shangai Oriental Art Center.
He also took part in important producitons including Armida at the Metropolitan of New York (Ubaldo),
Il viaggio a Reims at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Kent Nagano, Rossini’s
Stabat Mater in Tokyo under the baton of Alberto Zedda, L’italiana in Algeri (Lindoro), Demetrio e
Polibio and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater di (Paisiello version) at the Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro, Die
Entführung aus dem Serail and Le sette ultime parole by Mercadante at the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli,
Zaïde at the Festival Mozart de La Coruña, Les pêcheurs de perles at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne.
Born in Shanghai, he began his vocal studies in his native town and graduated with top score at the Toho
College of Music in Tokyo (Japan). After having won a fellowship offered by Toho Postgraduate School
of Music, he came to Europe to continue his studies, in Graz, and won several international vocal
competitions including the International Singing Competition “Ferruccio Tagliavini” in Graz.
Since 2011 he has been teaching singing at Hunan Normal University in China.
March 2016
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