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The Red Cliff is a story features Zhu Geliang, the prime minister of the Three Kingdoms. [Photo/IC]

Date: Sept 17－7:30 pm

Venue: Tsinghua University

Price: 180-680 yuan

The musicians of the MozART group are well educated instrumentalists who graduated from prestigious Academies of Music in Warsaw and Łódz, but they decided to play classical music in a humorous way. The MozART group created a worldwide unique musical cabaret, where the music, not the words are the source of joy and laugh. Take a classical composition as canvas, analyze its structure and theme, surround it with musical associations, brilliant, outstanding ideas and while listening to the final product the listener is constantly surprised, amazed, laughing and moved to tears.

Contact: 010-6278-2334

Peking Opera: Red Cliff

Date: Sept 24-27－7:30 pm

Venue: NCPA

Price: 100-500 yuan

The story of Fire Assaults on Multiple Camps, with its heroes and stories of that specific historical period ... as the first Peking Opera commissioned by the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the grand epic Peking Opera Red Cliff is titled a "surprising, tasteful and thought-provoking" work on the stage of Peking Opera. The Peking Opera version features concise and condensed plot, melodious aria and lingering aftertaste. It consists of six classical plots: Raising Troops from Tongque, Debates Eloquently Debating against a Hall of Learned Lords, Setting up Alliance and Deciding the Tactics, Borrowing Arrows on the Boat, Preparing for the Battle and Borrowing the East Wind and Burning the Red Cliff, making the whole story more attractive. Another highlight of this opera is the exquisite, melodious and meaningful aria full of aftertaste.

Contact: 400-610-3721