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Dai Yuqing: Chinese Pavarotti
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WHILE the world-famous Three Tenors are hogging the spotlight as they prepare for their grand concert in Beijing, Chinese opera stars are also coming to the fore.
In the past 20 years, Dai Yuqiang, Jin Yongzhe and Nie Jianhua have won acclaim for their work in Chinese opera. Among them, Dai, who is sometimes called "the Chinese Pavarotti", is perhaps the most prominent. So prominent, in fact, that he will soon be represented by the same agent as the Three Tenors.
The agent said he was surprised the first time he listened to Dai's CD: "I have never heard anyone's voice resemble Pavarotti's so closely." Even Pavarotti himself expressed surprise that a Chinese singer could perform like Dai, joking that Dai should take his place at the Three Tenors' concert in Beijing.
The agent seems determined to introduce Dai to the world. He plans to make a CD for Dai in a year; then Dai will join a tour of "Pavarotti and his friends", and at last, introduce Dai to the global opera stage.
Dai is fortunate, as he finds himself among the first wave of Chinese artists stepping to the world. However, he will not be the last.
Dai's agent plans to co-operate with the China Culture Art Co Ltd, one of the sponsors of the Three Tenors' concert in Beijing, to take an opera, a Chinese version of Turandot, to the United States, and then send it on a world tour.
(Windy Shao)
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