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Edinburgh Fringe Showcase: Leo

Date: May 27 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Oriental Palace Theater

Price: 50-380 yuan

What would happen if the laws of gravity were to suddenly change? Leo is a mind-bending, funny, surreal, and surprisingly touching work that challenges the senses and tests perceptions of reality through the clever interplay of live performance and video projection. Leo leaves audience members wondering which way is up and which way is down. Directed by the Montr��al actor and director Daniel Bri��re, and based on an original idea by the multi-talented performer Tobias Wegner, Leo has won several major awards including the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, the Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and more recently, won the John Chataway Award for Innovation at the 2013 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Leo has dazzled audiences and critics from New York to Berlin, from Melbourne to Hong Kong with stops in Montr��al, Moscow and London along the way. Leo is now touring in countries all around the world.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Andrea Chenier

Date: May 28-31 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-880 yuan

Andrea Chenier is a verismo opera in four acts by the composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, Andre Chenier (1762-1794), who was executed during the French Revolution. On March 28, 1896, Andrea Ch��nier was premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. It remains popular with audiences, though it is now less frequently performed than it was during the first half of the 20th Century. One reason that the opera has stayed in the repertoire is due to the magnificent lyric-dramatic music provided by Giordano for the tenor lead, which gives a talented singer opportunities to demonstrate his histrionic skil.

Contact: 400-610-3721