Yuan Chenye, also known as Chen-Ye Yuan (袁晨野;

Dalian Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...

, 1967) is a Chinese operatic

baritone A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the r ...

. He graduated from Central Conservatory of Music in 1990 and in the same year passed entrance to the

China Central Opera The China National Opera House (CNOH) or China Central Opera (中央歌剧院) is a State-run opera company based in Beijing, China, and under the Chinese Ministry of Culture. CNOH consists of an opera troupe, a choir, a symphony orchestra and a s ...

Company. He won the Tchaikovsky Prize in 1994Finnish music quarterly - Page 55 Esittävän säveltaiteen edistämiskeskus (Finland), Luovan säveltaiteen edistämissäätiö (Finland), Sibelius-Akatemia (Helsinki, Finland) - 1993 "... to the Chinese baritone Chen Ye-Yuan, who had already claimed the main trophy in the Tchaikovsky competition, He does admittedly have an excellent voice, even if slightly forced, and he also commands all the threadbare mannerisms "required" for Figaro's "Largo al factotum".." took part in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions of 1998, and sang the role of Zhou Enlai in Marin Alsop's Naxos recording of Nixon in China (opera). Chenye Yuan is also an alumnus of the renowned Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University.

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