Classical music and operas are fascinating.
A list of music venues I have been to: San Diego Jacobs Music Center, San Diego Civic Theatre, San Diego Rady Shell, The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center (La Jolla), Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Jiangsu Grand Theatre (Nanjing), Changzhou Grand Theatre, Jinji Lake Concert Hall (Suzhou), He Luting Concert Hall of SHCMusic, St. Thomas's Church (Leipzig).
Composers
Due to COVID and heavy coursework, I have not been able to attend many concerts. An incomplete list of works I have had the fortune to listen to live:
| Composer | Works |
|---|---|
| Bach | Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565 |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 7 & 8, Violin Concerto, Piano Sonata No. 2 & 9 & 15 & 23 & 27 |
| Brahms | Symphony No. 1 & 2 & 4, Tragic Overture, Piano Concerto No. 2, Piano Trio No. 1 |
| Copland | Symphony No. 3 |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Prokofiev | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
| Puccini | La Bohème, Madama Butterfly |
| Saint-Saëns | The Carnival of the Animals |
| Schoenberg | Pelleas und Melisande |
| Shostakovich | Symphony No. 6, Festive Overture, Piano Trio No. 2 |
| Strauss (R.) | Ein Heldenleben |
| Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring |
| Suk | Symphony No. 1 |
| Liszt | Réminiscences de Don Juan |
| Mahler | Symphony No. 1 & 2, Des Knaben Wunderhorn |
| Mozart | Symphony No. 40, Le nozze di Figaro |
| Mussorgsky | Pictures at an Exhibition |
| Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 4 & 5, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 1, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Variations on a Rococo Theme, Piano Trio, Waltz of Flowers |
| Wagner | Lohengrin, Götterdämmerung |