National Symphony Orchestra (NSO)
National Symphony Orchestra (NSO)
Founded in 1986, the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is one of Asia’s top orchestras. Since August 2010, Maestro Shao-Chia Lu has served as its music director. Over its more than 30-year history, the NSO has collaborated with many well-known conductors including Lorin Maazel, Rudolf Barshai, Krzystof Penderecki, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Gunther Herbig, Sir Neville Marriner and Leonard Slatkin.
In addition to its outstanding concerts, the NSO regularly performs large-scale operas including those of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). It has also been involved in transnational opera productions, such as Der Rosenkavalier (Germany, 2007), Carmen (England and Australia, 2009), Madame Butterfly (Australia, 2012) and Fidelio (Switzerland, 2015), as well as all-new productions of Die Walküre, Salome, Otello, IL Trittico and Parsifal.
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