Lü Jia (conductor) Lü Jia (conductor) Lü Jia (; born 1964 in Shanghai) is an Italian conductor. In 1991, when he was only 26, he was appointed as the Music Director of the Trieste Opera . From 1991 to 1995 he was principal Conductor at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste . In 1999 he became the principal Conductor of the Norrköping Symphonic" . He was director of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra 1999-2005, and now the Macao Orchestra since 2008. In 2007 he conducted "La gazza ladra" by Gioachino Rossini at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and it was released as a DVD from
Opera house as wealthy patrons and it continues to have a large number of working opera houses such as Teatro Massimo in Palermo (the biggest in Italy), Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (the world's oldest working opera house) and Teatro La Scala in Milan. In contrast, there was no opera house in London when Henry Purcell was composing and the first opera house in Germany was built in Hamburg in 1678. In the 17th and 18th centuries, opera houses were often financed by rulers, nobles, and wealthy people who used patronage of the arts to endorse their political ambition and social