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China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Date: Jan 21 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 50-380 yuan

China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus is a professional music performing arts organization under Ministry of Culture of the PRC. It merged with the Central Symphony Orchestra to set up the Central Orchestra in 1956, which was currently called as China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Huang Yuefeng is the incumbent president. It now has 60 members who are outstanding graduates of domestic music colleges and universities.

Date: Jan 21-Feb 2 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 180-680 yuan

The drama King Lear will be the first Shakespeare play performed at NCPA in 2017. In honor of the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, NCPA specially invited famous stage director LI Liuyi, screenplay translator YANG Shipeng, costume designer Emi Wada and others to stage this Shakespeare's classic. In addition, famous performing artist PU Cunxin will portray King Lear, who experiences honor and glory as well as wildness in the play. The three daughters of King Lear will be portrayed by ZHAO Qian, LU Fang and WAN Qianhui, who will present Shakespeare's three female characters with different personalities on the stage, thereby revealing the battle of power, desire and plotting between King Lear and his daughters, and showing the epic scroll of humanity and profound character analysis of King Lear.

Date: Jan 21-22 - 7 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-880 yuan

The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Leh��r. The librettists, Viktor Leon and Leo Stein, based the story - L'attache d'ambassade (The Embassy Attache) by Henri Meilhac. The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna and continues to be frequently revived and recorded.

Date: Jan 24-25 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-680 yuan

The story takes place at the initial stage of China's Second Revolutionary Civil War (1924-1927). On September 9th, 1927, the CPC leads and launches the Autumn Harvest Uprising in the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi. Workers and peasants' revolutions and armed struggles quickly spread eastern Hunan and western Jiangxi. In the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi, stimulated by the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Lei Gang calls on the poverty-stricken villagers to rise in revolt, and sets up peasant self-defense troop on Cuckoo Mountain. But he suffers from ups and downs three times, and he is on the verge of failure.

Date: Jan 21 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 120-240 yuan

Born after the 1980s, these seven people are just like every other ordinary person who has experienced the undertaking of Chinese language education. They perform various roles in the play and also portray themselves from years past. The play retells their growth from innocent children, their first loves, dull teachers, awkward articles in tests and the sorrow of farewells. Looking back, there were endless times of smiles and tears that enriched their life experience.

Date: Jan 29-Feb 2 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 180-1,080 yuan

Gaelforce Dance is a tap dance drama combining classic Irish music and dance, and also a classic dance drama spreading Irish culture to the world along with Riverdance. In 1994, an Irish dance show stirred the world at the Eurovision Song, then Irish music and tap dance grabbed people's attention. Later, the two classic dance dramas Riverdance and Gaelforce Dance were created and respectively debuted in 1994 and 1995. In the beginning, Gaelforce Dance was a music and dance performance aimed at small theaters and clubs. Because of its success, its scale was gradually increased and its performance contents and formation were changed as well. Finally, it became a large tap dance drama, and its world tour started in New Zealand in 1998.