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
Cristoforo Colombo (opera) performed in a revised version at La Scala, Milan. It had a number of performances throughout Italy, many of them conducted by Arturo Toscanini, and in Buenos Aires. The opera's North American premiere was presented by the Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House on November 20, 1913, with Titta Ruffo in the title role, Rosa Raisa as Queen Isabella of Spain, Amedeo Bassi as Don Fernan Guevara, and Gustave Huberdeau as Don Roldano Ximenes. Despite initial stage success, a massive cut of the first version, of some 100 pages of orchestral score, led to the published