Jinxu Xiahou. Ever since his success in the prestigious international singing competition NEUE STIMMEN of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Gütersloh in 2011, Jinxu Xiahou has been a regular on some of the world’s most important opera stages, including the Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera and La Scala in Milan.

 

In the season 2023/24 Jinxu Xiahou returned to the Teatro alla Scala for Verdi’s Don Carlo (Conte die Lerma), Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (Beppe) and Puccini’s Turandot (Pong). On the concert stage, he had great success with an Italian Opera Gala with the İstanbul State Symphony Orchestra, as well as Verdi’s Requiem with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire under Sascha Goetzel.

In 2022/23 he could be heard as Loris Ipanov in Umberto Giordano’s Fedora and Malcolm in a new production of Verdi’s Macbeth, both at La Scala, and gave his debut as Don José (Carmen) with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra as well as in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem.

In the 2021/22 season Jinxu Xiahou gave his house debuts at the Opéra national de Paris as Pang in the new production of Puccini’s Turandot under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel and at La Scala in Milan as Tebaldo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi. The same season he returned to Milan as Scaramuccio (Ariadne) and sang Ismaele (Nabucco) at the Opera in the Quarry in St. Margarethen, Europe’s largest natural stage.  

 

The 2020/21 season had Jinxu Xiahou appear as Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at the Vienna State Opera and as Roldolfo (La bohème) at the Mannheim National Theater.

His house debut as Pang at the Salzburg Easter Festival was unfortunately cancelled due to the Corona pandemic.

Between 2012 and 2020 Jinxu Xiahou was a member of the ensemble at the Vienna State Opera and sang roles like Nemorino, Rodolfo, Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Conte d’Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Malcolm und Macduff (Macbeth), Fenton (Falstaff), Italian Singer (Rosenkavalier), Singer (Capriccio), Voice of a young sailor (Tristan und Isolde), Cassio and Rodrigo (Otello), Ismaele and Abdallo (Nabucco), and other roles of the lyric tenor repertoire. Additionally, he sang a gala concert alongside KS Edita Gruberova with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Marco Armiliato.

He made his debut at the Vienna Musikverein in May 2017 with a recital, presenting songs by Schubert and Strauss, as well as works by Tosti, Rossini and Leoncavallo.

Jinxu Xiahou was born in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong in 1990. The tenor began his studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (China) in 2008. Since 2015 he has been studying with Prof. Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He made his European debut in 2010 performing at the annual CLASSIC NIGHT in Zurich.

 

Countertenor - Meili Li  (World management)

Meili Li is the first countertenor originally from China to have an international career. He is the winner of the Farinelli Prize (2016) and 2nd Prize (2022) at the London Handel Festival Singing Competition. He is also a resident artist with Royal Shakespeare Company and resident of The CounterTenor Project by Arts and Humanities Research Council. His passion lies in finding a unique perspective based on his cultural background to approach western music.

 

He has a wide range of repertoire from late renaissance lute songs, Baroque and Classical operas and oratorios, German and French Art Songs, to modern and contemporary works, some of which were written for him, such as song cycle Fragments of China by Karol Beffa and Orfeo by Fay Kueen Wang.

 

Recent roles include Licida Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade under Peter Whelan at Irish National Opera, Royal Opera House and Novel Opera Fribourg, Adone Sciarrino’s Venere e Adone under Kent Nagano at Hamburg State Opera, Orfeo Orfeo e Euridice under Peter Whelan at Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, Spirito L’Orfeo at Opera Royal de Versailles under Jordi Savall and under Christopher Moulds in ROH’s production at Roundhouse, Eunuch NOS under Vladimir Jurowski at Bavarian State Opera, Oberon A Midsummer Night's Dream under Andreas Schüller at Theater Gießen, Liang Shanbo Mill’s Butterfly Lovers under Richard Mills at Victorian Opera Melbourne, Peleo Fux’s Arianna under Alfredo Bernardini at Styriarte Festival, Alcasto Von Bayreuth’s Argenore under Attilio Cremonesi at Theater Münster, and a number of Handel roles such as title role Giustino under Markellos Chryssicos at Theater an der Wien, title role Tolomeo under Stefan Vladar at Theater Lübeck, Alessandro Tolomeo under Federico Maria Sardelli in International Handel Festival Karlsruhe, title role Fernando under Leo Duarte in London Handel Festival, Dardano Amadigi under Attilio Cremonesi at Meiningen State Theater.

 

Past and upcoming concerts in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Barbican Centre, 11 Downing Street State Room, Salle Gaveau, the Concertgebouw, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and numerous major concert halls in China.

 

CD releases include Variations on Choice and Longing, Fux’s Arianna with Zefiro under Alfredo Bernardini, and upcoming Giulio Cesare with The English Concert under Harry Bicket.