Michael Ching

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Ching
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Sep 29, 1958(1958-09-29)
Age	66
Birthplace	Honolulu
Country	United States
Birth City	Hawaii
Horoscope	Libra

Michael Ching Biography

Michael Ching is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on September 29, 1958 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

Michael Ching (born September 29, 1958) is an American composer, conductor, and music administrator. A prolific and eclectic composer, he is best known nationally as the composer of innovative operas, including his a cappella adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2011). His other major operas include Buoso’s Ghost (1996), Corps of Discovery (2003), Slaying the Dragon (2012), Speed Dating Tonight! (2013), and Alice Ryley (2015). He has written the librettos of many of his own operas, and has done so for all of his operas composed after 2012.

Ching is best known for his operas. He provided his own libretti for his first two operas: Levees (1980), a New Orleans vampire story performed at Duke University; and Cocks Must Crow (1985), based on a Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings short story and performed at Greater Miami Opera. His early miniature opera Leo: Opera in One Cat is a jazz-based 15-minute one-act opera, with a libretto by Fernando Fonseca based on Cal Massey’s story “Leo Spat”. It premiered in June 1985 at Houston Grand Opera’s Texas Opera Theater, and subsequent venues included South Street Theater in New York City in October 1985. Texas Monthly called it “a pleasant diversion but such an assured one that the Miami-based composer’s talent glitters all over it.”

Michael Ching Net Worth

Michael Ching is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Ching 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michael Ching was born in 1958 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Before he was one year old his family left Honolulu, and he grew up in New Orleans and Saint Paul, Minnesota. His father was an accomplished amateur pianist and a college professor in theater and speech. Ching later recalled, “He played everything from Chopin to Dave Brubeck transcriptions. He wanted to go into music but his family discouraged him.”

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In 1992 Ching joined Opera Memphis as Artistic Director, a position he held through 2010. He was the opera’s General Director for most of those years as well.

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Ching’s opera Buoso’s Ghost is a comedic sequel to Puccini’s one-act comic opera Gianni Schicchi. It had its first full staging with the Pittsburgh Opera in 1996, and its official premiere at Opera Memphis in 1997. Starting where Gianni Schicchi ends, the new opera, with a libretto by the composer, opens with Schicchi’ s final chords and carries the plot forward by following the sinister dealings of Buoso Donati’s family, who apparently had poisoned Buoso, and the continued machinations of Schicchi, who tries to exploit this growing suspicion on his part. In reviewing the work the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that “Buoso’s Ghost soared …. [it] offered highly charged acting atop a deft, tuneful score…. Ching, General/Artistic Director of Opera Memphis, studied with Robert Ward and Carlisle Floyd, and the unashamed flow of natural, singing melody … reflects the profile of his teachers.” And the Chicago Tribune reported that “Composer and librettist Ching … borrows snatches of Puccini tunes and weaves them into his own conservative-eclectic idiom, tossing in bits of American pop … for merry measure. The vocal writing is expert, the orchestration light enough to allow the singers to project the text clearly. Buoso is charming and unpretentious ….” Opera News noted that Ching uses “a more modern musical mode, yet avoiding excessive atonality. The score subtly introduces brief tongue-in-cheek quotations from other works, ranging from Mozart to Sondheim, plus one unmistakable interjection of Shostakovich.” The work has been performed throughout the U.S. as an ideal pairing with Gianni Schicchi, the most popular of Puccini’s three Il trittico one-act operas.