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China National Opera House Rigoletto (Concert Version)

Date: Nov 26 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-480 yuan

The conductor Yang Yang, born in a musical family, learned piano with professor Li Qifang. Later, he learned conducting respectively with professor Xu Xin and professor Wu Lingfen, and then was admitted to the Conducting Department of Central Conservatory of Music, being one of the students of professor Yu Feng. In November 2006, Yang Yang won the first place for his outstanding performance at the Dimitris Mitropoulos International Competition for Orchestral Conducting in Greece. China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra is a national opera house subordinate to the Ministry of Culture founded in 1952. It consists of the Song and Dance Troupe, the Chorus and the Symphony Orchestra and the Stage Design Department.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Wang Feng 2017 The Times Tour

Date: Dec 9 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Blue Note Beijing

Price: 280-1,680 yuan

Wang Feng is a Chinese rock musician and composer. He was the founder and lead vocals of the rock band No. 43 Baojia Street. He also composed the music for Wang Xiaoshuai's 2001 film Beijing Bicycle. After two albums No 43 Baojia Street (1997) and No 43 Baojia Street 2 (1998), he signed a solo contract with Warner Music Beijing Co Ltd. The third album Fireworks (2000) was the beginning of his solo career. With a number of songs like Flying Higher, and Blooming Life (2005) on his following albums, Wang Feng entered the media spotlight and became popular in the mainland. His 2009 album Belief Flies in the Wind won him an award as the Most Popular Male Singer on the Chinese Mainland at the Channel V's 14th Chinese Music Awards. He is also a coach on The Voice of China, a TV show which helped him gain immense popularity.

Contact: 400-610-3721

2017 Air Supply World Tour in Nanjing

Date: Nov 28 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Nanjing Sun Palace

Price: 380-1,280 yuan

The Air Supply band has a nearly 30 years of musical experience. It was founded in Australia in 1976 and marched into the American music scene in 1980. The band consists of singer-songwriter and guitarist Graham Russell and lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock. They continue to create beautiful and outstanding pop songs, and thus they keep rewriting the top music list rapidly during their music journey! During 1970s to 1980s, they had been described as the world-renowned rock group and they were also three Grammy Music Awards winner.

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Mozart, L'opera Rock

Date: Jan 2-14 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square

Price: 200-1,000 yuan

Mozart, l'opera rock ("Mozart, the rock opera") is a French musical about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from age 17, using both original pop-rock compositions as well as existing music composed by Mozart. With classical Baroque-styled costume design and magnificent stage design, this show perfectly illustrated the incomparable talent of Mozart. The musical premiered on Sept 22, 2009 at the Palais des Sports de Paris and caused a huge sensation. With the engaging narrative, vivid characters and breathtaking costume and stage design, this musical was deemed as "a real revolution in musical theatre". The musical starts with the young, 17-year-old Mozart. It then uses rock music to introduce the opportunities and difficulties he encountered when he struggled to earn acknowledgment in the world of music. From his hometown Salzburg to Mannheim, from Paris to Vienna, his musical talent led him to break free from the prejudice people held toward German operas and the limitation of his time. He dedicated his life to his gift for music.

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Aterballetto

Date: Nov 25-26 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-500 yuan

Aterballetto is the principal producing and touring dance company in Italy. It is also the first permanent ballet-producing organization apart from Opera House companies. Founded in 1979, preceded by the experience of Compagnia del Balletto dei Teatri dell'Emilia Romagna directed by Vittorio Biagi, it is composed of solo dancers capable of performing in various dance styles. Aterballetto has assumed the profile of a contemporary ballet and dance company. The founding element of Aterballetto's artistic identity is its commitment to supporting and developing the art of choreography and the absolute language of dance, intended as dynamics and forms in space, as an embodiment of expressive and aesthetic qualities, and as a dialectic with music.

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Valery Gergiev & The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Date: Nov 25 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 200-1,200 yuan

Born in Moscow, Valery Gergiev initially studied conducting under Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory. In 1978, aged 24, Valery Gergiev became assistant conductor of Yuri Temirkanov at the Mariinsky Opera, where he made his debut conducting Sergei Prokofiev's adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace. More than two decades ago, he assumed his current position as director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, which has since become a cornerstone of operatic culture in Russia. The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1893 on the private initiative of Franz Kaim, the son of a piano manufacturer, and has since then left an indelible imprint on Munich's musical life under the direction of renowned conductors. In the earliest years of the orchestra - initially under the name "Kaim Orchestra" - conductors like Hans Winderstein, Hermann Zumpe and Bruckner pupil Ferdinand Lowe guaranteed the high technical performance level and dedicated considerable attention to the contemporary music of the time. When Felix Weingartner took over the orchestra from 1889 to 1905, the number of foreign tours increased, enhancing the ensemble's international reputation.

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