HCM CITY (VNS)— The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will host its first performance of the year, a New Year Gala Concert, conducted by Tran Nhat Minh at the Opera House tomorrow.

The first part of the concert, presented by tenors Pham Trang and Duy Linh and sopranos Ngoc Tuyen and Thanh Nga, will feature famous arias from classical operas including love songs by G Donizetti, G Puccini, and F Lenar and a medley of popular Italian songs and arias by J Strauss and L Arditi.

There will also be a work featuring the pinnacle of vocal technique – G Rossini's La Danza.

The second part will feature Roma, a symphony by French composer Georges Bizet, whose final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in opera.

Minh graduated in 2007 with an MA degree from Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, majoring in chorus conducting.

He won the second prize at an international competition for young conductors in Vladivostok, Russia (2003), the incentive prize in the annual All-Russia Competition for Professional Conductors (2006), and best conductor prize at the Viet Nam National Competition of Voice-Dance and Music in 2009.

The organisers said the New Year Gala Concert will be the start of a new season.

Tickets costing VND60,000 to 300,000 are available at the venue at 7 Lam Son Square, District 1. — VNS