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September 16, 2025

Hui He Chinese Puccini Opera Asian singer Music Press Asia
[Hui He is a renowned Chinese soprano celebrated for her powerful, emotive interpretations of Puccini and Verdi heroines on the world’s leading opera stages.]
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Why Asian Sopranos Bring Authentic Power to Madama Butterfly

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly has long held a central place in the global opera repertoire—a sweeping, tragic love story set in early 20th-century Nagasaki, Japan. Yet, for more than a century, the role of Cio-Cio-San has often been performed by non-Asian sopranos, sparking conversations about authenticity, cultural representation, and artistic responsibility. This discussion is not to say that European or non-Asian…

How AI Affects Music Creation in Asia?

Introduction: AI & Music Creation: Is the Future of Music Artificial? From viral TikTok beats to chart-topping pop hits, artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how music is created, produced, and…

Artificial Intelligence Music Press Asia
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Indonesia Government Passes Bill To Build New City

In an effort to relieve huge environmental challenges facing Jakarta and redistribute wealth, President Joko Widodo has recently announced the plan to move Indonesia’s capital – a plan that could go ahead in 2024.How would this new plan reduce the burden on Jakarta, a city of 10 million?Will Indonesia’s New City Nusantara Be A Capital For The Music Community? One…

A Friday Night with Sophie Gigg

For the first time, Music Press Asia is curating Friday evening listening lists for stay-at-homes as part of the November series programme. The Friday program is made especially for autumn…

A Friday night with Music Press Asia

Monday Best Music Selection For Work

Let’s cut to the chase. Monday is all about being direct and multi-tasking. If you have a whole week’s worth of work waiting, who wouldn’t want to be in a…

Music Press Asia Recommends Monday Music Playlist
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How Tea Rhymes with Guzheng

Tea is where we’d like to begin. If tea isn’t a reason to bring people together, then what does? While our editorial editors may like a gau (thick) cup of…

How Tea Rhymes With GuZheng. Music Press Asia
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Food & playlist

A Malaysian’s Tuesday Playlist

Monica Tong, editor-in-chief at Music Press Asia shares her Tuesday listening rituals starting from an hour before dawn to midday and why Bossa Nova, and ultimately, birdsongs are her life-saving…

Business & Trade

Culture & Music To Play A Big Role On Belt And Road

While many more songwriters believe that there may be commercial sense to how things are being run in the digitalized world, the purpose of music making remains best performed in…

Music & Culture to play a big role on the Silk Road. Music Press Asia
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Business & Trade

Culture & Music To Play A Big Role On Belt And Road

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the most ambitious infrastructure plan in world history. Connecting the Chinese city of Guangzhou to Venice by sea and Beijing to Brussels by…

Music & Culture to play a big role on the Silk Road. Music Press Asia
Environment

How Can Aviation Industry Meet its Net-Zero Goals?

The World Economic Forum’s Clean Skies for Tomorrow coalition recognises the immediate efforts to achieve carbon-neutral flying is in deploying sustainable aviation fuel production and usage. This foundation report gives…

World Economic Forum's 2020 report Clean Skies for Tomorrow gives insight to how carbon neutrality for the aviation industry can be achieved. Music Press Asia
Editor's Column

Rebooting The Pandemic

As the topic of the pandemic gathers heat in our office, more specifically like a person sitting and warming up the kaftan strewn wooden chair situated in the corner of…

Empty spaces: Live venues are facing an uphill challenge filling up an audience. Image credit Cincinnati Kentucky's Springer Auditorium. Music Press Asia
Covid Lifeline

Aviation Industry: Being Creatively Challenged

Let’s start with Malaysia, a tropically cool paradise smack within a miniscule area called the Southeast Asia. Within a regionally attraction that is distinctly equal of beauty is the Andaman archipelago in the northwest and Indonesia’s popular reefs in the south; with a bustling, healthy…

Chaos' first step to recovery in aviation. Images and information of TheNewsMarket. Music Press Asia
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