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Concerto Italiano Opera Concert L'Orfeo

Date: March 11 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-500 yuan

Concerto Italiano has achieved international benchmark status for groundbreaking interpretations of 17th and 18th century Italian music. Their recordings have revolutionized our perception of Baroque masterpieces and the ensemble has firmly established itself with critics and audiences as the finest of its kind in Italy today. In addition to vibrant performances and recordings of familiar baroque masterpieces Rinaldo Alessandrini's ensemble has also restored, for modern audiences, works that have languished in obscurity for centuries.

 

Zaifen Huangmei Opera Theater Emperor's Female Son-in-law

Date: March 10-11 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-580 yuan

Back in 1958, Wang Zhaoqian discovered the original script of The Emperor's Female Son-in-Law that had been collected by Zuo Shihe. Then on this basis, Anqing Commission Huangmei Opera Troupe, the precursor of Anqing Zaifen Huangmei Opera House, brought it alive on the stage for the first time. Later with Liu Qiong at the helm, a film starring Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang hit the big screen as a salute to the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the New China. Alongside China's Reform and Opening-up, Han Zaifen has made Huangmei Opera as a potpourri of drama, TV play and movie.

 

Chen Xinyi's Historical Drama Shang Yang

Date: March 15-18 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-500 yuan

Large-scale historical drama Shang Yang is authored by the national-class level-A playwright Yao Yuan and directed by the stage director Chen Xinyi. This drama is adapted on the basis of historical figure Shang Yang. It not only tells the story of an ancient struggle for reform, but also conveys the masculine courage and uprightness at the cost of life in the pursuit of grand ideal and indomitable fighting spirit of breaking through the encirclement of obsolete culture.

 

China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra

Date: March 4 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-480 yuan

The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work premiered on September 30th, 1791 at Schikaneder's theater in Vienna. In the opera, the Egyptian prince Tamino is rescued at the last second by the three ladies who serve the Queen of the Night. The queen shows Tamino a picture of Pamina, the daughter of the Queen, and Tamino instantly falls in love with her. The queen tells Tamino of her daughter's kidnapping at the hands of Sarastro. Tamino responds with great enthusiasm to her command that he frees Pamina. As a protection against danger, they give Tamino the gift of a magic flute.

 

Drama Leave Before Getting Old Directed by Shao Zehui

Date: March 9-11 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 120-240 yuan

Leave Before Getting Old is a 'monodrama' performed by two actors. The show is adapted from the true story of a young poet named Ma Hua who left his city to go to Yunnan and became a rural teacher at the foot of Meili Snow Mountain. Unfortunately, he was involved in an accident and his jeep rolled into Lancang River. Ma Hua never came back. Ma Hua has lied to all his friends. He says, "I'm going to travel around the world. " But the truth is he goes to the foot of Meili Snow Mountain in Yunnan and becomes a rural teacher in a primary school. The new environment and new life bring some fresh experiences, inspiration and new meaning to life.

 

The Philharmonic String Sextet Vienna

Date: March 10 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-400 yuan

The ensemble "The Philharmonic String Sextet Vienna" was founded in 2015 by 6 young members of the Vienna Philharmonic. Since then the musicians have devoted themselves to the classic sextet literature around the two large sextets by Brahms, the sextet of Dvo��k and the famous Souvenir de Florence by PyotrIlyich Tchaikovsky, as well as to more modern works by composers such as Schoenberg, Korngold and Milhaud. The Philharmonic String Sextet Vienna appeared at several festivals, including the chamber music cycle of the Vienna State Opera, where it celebrated a huge success with the sextet by Tchaikovsky. The maintaining of tradition is an important part of the ensembles philosophy as proven by the members. For example, Siegfried F��hrlinger, Sebastian F��hrlinger's father, was a longtime violist of the famous Vienna String Sextet. Thomas K��blbck for his part continues the philharmonic tradition in his family: His father is first trombonist of the Vienna Philharmonic.