Classical celebration

Maestro Jiri Belohlavek with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

For the show, director Zou Shuang has created a unique space that combines music, theater and the movies.

"As the classical song cycle may be boring for today's audiences, what we do is to create a scene in which singer performs the role with a simple setting and a video background to let the audience experience the story, so that they feel the poet's story," Zou says.

As for Shen, 32, who won the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in April 2009, he was the first Chinese baritone to record Winter Journey in 2006.

With regard to the programs at The Orange, the venue will see two jazz concerts.

On Oct 13, Andreas Ottensamer, the 27-year-old Austrian clarinetist and the principal clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic will play Piazzola's music with Argentine pianist Jose Gallardo.

And on Oct 14, a Swedish R&B funk and jazz trombone player Nils Landgren will perform with pianist Eric Staiger, bassist Lisa Rebecka Wulf and drummer Wolfgang Haffner.

Another concert at The Orange will be on Oct 18 when Chinese pipa (Chinese lute) player Wu Man performs with a special band that includes a Ugandan musician James Makubuya, who plays several traditional instruments from the country. They include the endongo (an eight-stringed bowl lyre), the adungu (a nine-stringed bow harp), the endingidi (a one-stringed tube fiddle) and the amadinda (a 12-slab log xylophone).