Haijing Fu
Baritone
New England First Place Winner 1988
National Council Winner 1988                                                     review

Baritone Haijing Fu, who has been described by the DetroitFree Press as possessing “urgency as well as nuance, warmth as well as heft, and...an exquisite sense of line to his phrasing,” reprises the role of Seikyo in Tan Dun’s Tea for performances at Festival New Zealand. During recent seasons, he has joined the Metropolitan Opera for productions of Il Trovatore, La Traviata, and Turandot, made his San Francisco Opera debut in the role of Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore , and created the role of Seikyo in Tan Dun’s Tea , presented by The Netherlands Opera, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and at the Opéra de Lyon in a production by Pierre Audi.

Highlights of past seasons have seen Haijing Fu on many the great operatic stages of the world such as the Metropolitan Opera for Germont in La Traviata, Ford in Falstaff, Marcello in La Bohème, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Paolo Albiani in Simon Boccanegra, Stankar in Verdi’s Stiffelio, Ping in Turandot, and Sir Richard Forth in I Puritani; at the Los Angeles Music Center Opera and the Washington Opera in the title role of Rigoletto; at San Diego Opera and the Utah Symphony & Opera as Amonasro in Aida; the Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile as Ford in Falstaff; the Florida Grand Opera in La Traviata and as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera; Opéra de Nice in the role of Alfonso XI in Donizetti’s La Favorita and as Rodrigo in Don Carlos; and The Dallas Opera for Lucia di Lammermoor.

Concert engagements have included Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra; the Fauré Requiem with Sergiu Comissiona and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem in Geneva; Carmina Burana with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit. Mr. Fu has appeared with Luciano Pavarotti in a "Pavarotti Plus!" telecast live on the "Live from Lincoln Center" series on PBS, has appeared with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Dutoit at the Mann Music Center in a concert performance of La Bohème, and has joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa both in a Gala Opening performance at the Tanglewood Festival and in concert at Boston's Symphony Hall.

Mr. Fu is represented by IMG Artists.

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