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 Real Arts and Culture is the management
company for world-renowned opera and theater
director, Chen Shi-Zheng. For information about current or
upcoming projects with Mr. Chen please
contact us.
Chen Shi-Zheng
is a director, choreographer, singer, and
actor. He was born in
Changsha
,
Hunan
,
China
in 1963.
As a teenager, he studied with some
of the great masters of Chinese opera and
became a leading traditional opera actor,
performing in many productions throughout
China. Mr. Chen immigrated to the
United
States
in 1987 and has worked to create a new
expression that crosses the boundaries
between music, opera, theatre, and dance,
and between nationalities. In 2000 he received the title of Chevalier
in the Order of Arts and Letters from the
French Government.
Currently, he is working on a modern opera
Mercury Light for the Berlin
Festival; a new theater works My
life as a fairy tale for the Hans
Christian Andersen bicentennial celebrations
in
Denmark
,
2005. Future projects includes
Monteverdi’s opera cycle- Orfeo,
The
Coronation of Poppea, The
Return of
Ulysses plus Vespers
for English National Opera premier in Spring
2006, Dido
and Aeneas for the Handel and Haydn
Society of Boston and
Journey
to the west- a circus spectacle for
Theatre du Chatelet in Paris Sept 2006. Mr.
Chen will begin shooting his first feature
film Dark
Matter with Meryl Streep this
spring.
Recently Mr. Chen has completed the last
piece of a trilogy of Chinese theater works:
Peach
Blossom Fan for the Center for New
Theatre at the California Institute of the
Arts, presented at REDCAT, the theatre in
the new facility designed by Frank Gehry in
downtown
Los
Angeles
,
in April 2004. The
other two pieces are Orphan
of Zhao (Lincoln Center Theater
& Lincoln Center Festival, July 2003),
and Snow
in June (American Repertory Theatre,
November-December 2003). Among Mr. Chen’s
other recent directing projects were
Monteverdi’s Vespers
with Handel & Hayden Society in Boston;
Wagner’s The
Flying Dutchman for the Spoleto
Festival USA; Night
Banquet, a chamber opera by Guo
Wenjing co-commissioned by the Festival
d’Automne à Paris, Kunstenfestival des
Arts in Brussels, Hebbel-Theater in Berlin,
and the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, at the
Lincoln Center Festival in summer 2003; and
a documentary film Cultural
Warriors of The Revolution for TV
France 3.
The year 1999 marked the premiere of his 19
hour staging of Tang Xianzu’s complete Peony
Pavilion as part of the Lincoln
Center Festival. This production has subsequently been
presented at the Festival d’Automne in
Paris,
at the Piccolo Teatro in
Milan,
at the Perth International Arts Festival, at
the Aarhus Festival in
Denmark,
at Berlin Festival, Vienna Festival and at
the Esplanade Centre in
Singapore.
It has been filmed for home video
distribution by RM Associates.
Other credits as director and/or
choreographer include Mozart’s Cosi
fan tutte
at the Aix-en Provence Festival and
at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in
Paris; Dido
and Aeneas for the Spoleto USA
Festival; New York City Opera’s production
of Turandot
(1991-97); A
Small Delegation at the Philadelphia
Festival Theatre for New Plays; Kindness
with Richard Tuttle at the Center for
Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe; The
Child God by Bun Ching Lam for Bang
on a Can Festival, New York; and Chinoiserie
by Ping Chong for the Next Wave Festival
at Brooklyn Academy of Music. His 1996
production of Euripides’ tragedy The
Bacchae, performed by China National
Beijing Opera Company, attracted wide
acclaim and toured to the Hong Kong
International Festival of the Arts in
February 1998 and the Athens Festival in the
summer of 1998.
That same year, he directed Alley,
a new opera by Jack Body for the New Zealand
International Festival for the Arts.
As a performer, Mr. Chen appeared as a
principal in Meredith Monk’s Atlas
(ECM) for Houston Grand Opera, which toured
widely throughout the world. Other
performances include leading roles in the
ritual opera Nine
Songs (CRI), and in Marco
Polo (Sony) by Tan Dun, which
premiered in Munich Biennale International
Festival and toured to the Holland Festival,
Hong Kong Arts Festival, and New York City
Opera. He has performed as solo vocalist at
Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at
Lincoln
Center,
New
York,
Théâtre Odeon in
Paris,
Queen Elizabeth Hall in
London,
and other major venues throughout
Europe,
Asia,
and the
United
States.
Chen
Shi-Zheng earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts
from
Hunan
Arts
School
in
Changsha,
China
with Honors in 1981. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree
in Performance Studies from
New
York
University
/
Tisch
School
of the Arts. Mr. Chen resides in
New
York City.
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