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Li Yundi Piano Concert in Guangzhou

Date: March 25 - 8 pm

Venue: Guangzhou Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall

Price: 280-1,180 yuan

Li Yundi has received top awards at various competitions. In October 2000, at the urging of the Chinese Culture Ministry, Li participated in the 14th International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He was the first participant to be awarded First Prize in 15 years. At 18 years of age, he was the youngest winner - and the first Chinese - in the competition's history. Li was given a Polonaise award by the Chopin Society for his performance at the competition.

Lithuanian National Opera & Ballet Theatre Swan Lake

Date: Feb 21-23 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-600 yuan

Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre is an opera house and ballet theater in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was built in 1974. The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, the Kaunas State Choir, and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra are housed in the LNOBT. Apart from standard Western and Russian repertory works, the opera also performs national operas. Vytautas Klova's opera Pil nai (1956), has since 2001 been performed outdoors during the summer at Trakai Island Castle. Bronius Kutavi ius' opera Lokys (2000), after Prosper Mérimée's short story Lokis the bear, was commissioned by the Vilnius Festival. The ballet has performed several productions by Russian choreographer Boris Eifman, among them Red Giselle.

Drama Desire Under the Elms by Shen Liang

Date: Feb 18-19 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-580 yuan

Greed for assets, adulterous affair, Eugene O'Neill brings his characters to life with their desires through the story. Believing they are fighting for their goals, yet on the journey of craving for greed, they are trapped in the whirlpool of emotions ... With the power of play, it is to let the viewers and player think about the meaning of the life, and lament the price to be paid for understanding.

Opera Turandot

Date: Feb 18-19 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 160-880 yuan

Turandot depicts a love story of mystery. Turandot, though she is a most beautiful Chinese Princess, but coldhearted. And she stipulates that any prince seeking to marry her must answer three riddles - and if he fails, he will be sentenced to death. Three poor princes have unfortunately lost their lives. Calaf, the prince of Tartary who is in exile in China, smitten with the princess's beauty, determines to win her as his bride and answers all the questions correctly. However, Princess Turandot refuses to accept defeat. Calaf generously offers Turandot a riddle of his own: if she can learn his name by dawn, he will forfeit his life. Princess Turandot captures the father of the prince and his maid Liù and extorts a confession from them by torture. Liù kills herself to keep the secret. Liù's death gives coldhearted Turandot a great shock. At dawn, Turandot still has no idea of the prince's name. Calaf makes Turandot forced to kiss him and melts her icy heart and finally tells her his real name. Yet Princess Turandot does not announce the prince's real name, on the contrary, she announces to the public that she will marry the prince and his name is Love.

Zedd at Myst

Date: Feb 22 - 10:30 pm

Venue: Club Myst, Shanghai

Price: 280-380 yuan

Zedd is a Russian-born German record producer, DJ, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily produces electro house music, but has diversified his genre and musical style, drawing influences from progressive house, dubstep, and classical music. Zedd grew up and began his career in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Zedd's best-known productions to date are the songs "Clarity" featuring Foxes which charted at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number one of the US Hot Dance Club Songs; and "Break Free", a song which peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, becoming his first song to do so. Zedd won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards for "Clarity".

Snow White - 3-D Musical Bilingual Version

Date: March 18 - 3:30 pm/7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Himalayas Art Center

Price: 100-520 yuan

Little friends heard of snow white? A long time ago in a distant castle, when the snow was born a lovely little princess, she is snow white skin, blood red lips, ebony as dark hair, yes everybody knows this is kind and beautiful snow white. But Snow White was born shortly after, her own mother died, the king to snow white is not a lack of love and married a beautiful new queen. But the new queen is full of evil and jealousy, and she has a magic mirror, every day to ask who is the most beautiful woman in the world.