Lunpo Cui
Lunpo Cui (b. 1993) is a Chinese baritone. He is a student at the Franz Liszt Academy in Weimar, having previously graduated from the Xi’an Conservatory of Music in China. He has successfully participated in numerous national Chinese competitions, both as an opera singer and as a performer of traditional Chinese songs. Cui is interested in bodybuilding and basketball, and he speaks English and German as well as Chinese.
Repertoire
Preliminary round | |
J.S.Bach | Matthäus-Passion: Mache dich mein Herze rein |
H. Wolf | Der Rattenfänger (Goethe) |
P. Tšaikovski | Net, tolko tot, kto znal (Mei) |
A. Thomas | Hamlet: ”O vin, dissipe la tristesse” (Hamlet) |
O. Merikanto | Illansuussa (Koskenniemi) |
Semifinals | |
R. Quilter | Three Shakespeare songs |
1. Come away death | |
3. Blow, blow, thou winter wind | |
F. Schubert | Der Schiffer (Mayrhofer) |
Der Wanderer (Lübeck) | |
H. Wolf | Der Feuerreiter (Mörike) |
E.W. Korngold | Die Tote Stadt: ”Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen” (Fritz) |
Final | |
F. Mendelssohn | Elias: Es ist genug |
G. Verdi | Don Carlo: “Per me giunto… Io morro” (Rodrigo) |
Preliminary round