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
Aureliano in Palmira Rossini in "Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra" and in "The Barber of Seville". It premiered at La Scala in Milan on 26 December 1813. 19th century "Aureliano in Palmira" was Rossini's second commission from La Scala. It opened the theatre's Carnival season with the famed castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti as Arsace. It was the only role that Rossini wrote for the castrato voice. Rossini had originally written the role of Aureliano for Giovanni David, one of the most renowned tenors of the day. However, throat problems during rehearsals led David to withdraw from the production, and Luigi Mari took his place. The