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
Fosca (opera) Fosca (opera) Fosca is an opera seria in four acts by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes to an Italian-language libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni based on 's 1869 novel "La festa delle Marie". The opera premiered at La Scala in Milan on February 16, 1873. It was a failure because of a dispute between lovers of bel canto and supporters of Wagnerian music-drama. Gomes revised it in 1877, and the premiere of the new version (this time described as a melodramma) on February 7, 1878, also at La Scala, was a success. Since then, performances of the opera, mostly in Brazil,