Stage
Day and Night
A concert in two parts, presenting two of the most simmering female voices in Shanghai, Heidi Krenn and Arlene Estrella. By interweaving her European roots with the American jazz traditions with a sometimes sensual, sometimes playful mood, Krenn creates a style of her own. With a blend of standard jazz, Latin and R&B, Estrella will rock the house with songs by Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Antonio Carlos Jobim and others.
3 pm, July 4
Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 425 Dingxiang Road
021-962-288
60-300 yuan
Earth Concerto
Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun will present his new creation, Earth Concerto, as tribute to Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. Borrowing the subjects from Mahler's masterpiece, The Song of the Earth, Tan creates a new concerto featuring instruments made of pottery, which he created. Tan will also give the Chinese premiere of his Internet symphony, Eroica, and present his acclaimed concerto, The Map.
7:15 pm, July 23-25
Shanghai Grand Theater, 300 Renmin Avenue
021-6386-8686
Ticket Price TBA
La Boheme
Teatro Regio from Turin, Italy, will bring an authentic production of Puccini's classic opera La Boheme to Shanghai in August. La Boheme had its premiere in 1896. Along with singers and the orchestra from Turin, the Shanghai Grand Theater plans to recruit 11 amateur actors among local opera lovers for the production.
7:15 pm, August 4, 6
Shanghai Grand Theater, 300 Renmin Avenue
021-6386-8686
150-800 yuan
Exhibitions
Gulistan
Gulistan is an artist of unique aesthetics and creative expressions. Her paintings are deeply immersed in a world of dreams and fantasy. These paintings of light colors and simple composition feature delicate changes of texture and color shades. Nineteen paintings are exhibited.
Until July 4
M Art Center, Building No 2, 50 Moganshan Road
021-6299-6610
Behind
Thomas Rusch, a photographic artist based in Paris and Hamburg based, is exhibiting his work, Behind, a series of portraits whose identities are unrecognizable behind make-up, texture and material. By overlapping different layers Thomas Rusch evokes an irritating intensity of emotions. Masks are used to protect or hide, but masks can also work as an intensifier or converter.
Stage Back Gallery, 310, 3F, 696 Weihai Road
021-6279-0993
Identity Eliminating System
Shanghai artist Hu Xingyi extends his work from paintings to three-dimensional mediums and spaces. His work continues to discuss human character and individuality, or the lack of these in the current social environment. Some of the pieces in the exhibition include face casts of people from all walks of life. These faces fill up different rice bowls and take-out food boxes. Other pieces include large cast iron woks with vaguely painted faces inside, and birdcages with live birds pecking bread made using casts of artist's own face.
Stir Gallery, 2F, 1 Maoming Road S
021-2635-9535
