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2016 Shanghai Longines Global Champions Tour

Date: April 29-May 1－9:30 am

Venue: Shanghai Expo Park

Price: 880-1,270 yuan

This year Shanghai will host the 4th leg of the Tour from. Synonymous with glamour and new beginnings, Shanghai is renowned for its record-breaking skyscrapers which have sprung up where just twenty years ago there was only farmland. Many people visit Shanghai purely for the shopping experience. But if you would rather enjoy the renowned culture, art galleries offer contemporary local art and acrobatic shows are always close at hand. A massage is always popular with visitors if you are looking to relax inbetween enjoying the world-class showjumping on offer in the heart of the city.

NCPA Opera Production Tannhauser

Date: April 6-10－7 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-880 yuan

Wilhelm Wagner's life was characterized by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. Although his writings on music are controversy, his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century. Wagner wrote 14 operas in his lifetime. From Der Fliegende Hollander to Parsifal, these 10 operas represent musically a continuing development of the composer's style. And in his mid-stage output, Tannhauser was one of his three 'romantic operas' reinforced his reputation. Musically, Tannhauser Overture is frequently performed as a separate item in orchestral concerts.

Broadway Original Musical－My Fair Lady

Date: April 29-May 3－7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Daning Theater

Price: 50-999 yuan

My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady. The original Broadway, London and film versions all starred Rex Harrison.