Chinese opera fans have watched enough Verdi and Puccini in recent years, and the producers of the National Center for the Performing Arts believe the time is right for Russian operas to make a comeback. Eugene Onegin, a co-production between Mariinsky Theater and the NCPA, will mark the opening of a three-month opera festival on March 14. Valery Gergiev will conduct the NCPA orchestra and choir. The Russian cast will perform on the opening night, the Chinese cast will perform on March 17 and a mixed cast will perform on March 15 and 16. "NCPA has tried to present a variety of operas since its opening in 2007, from the popular Carmen and Turandot to Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. Russian opera is not familiar to local audiences. People know Tchaikovsky's ballet but not his opera," NCPA's production director Wei Lanfen says.
Jaap van Zweden is fully aware of the importance of touring the world. Appointed music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic in 2012, he heads one of the largest and busiest musical organizations in Hong Kong, presenting more than 150 concerts every year.
Sometimes curating an art exhibition is like painting a masterpiece. That's how it is with Armory Focus: China, where Chinese galleries debut as a whole at one of New York City's marquee art expos.
When Jerome Cohen walked into a lecture hall at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1979, he had not anticipated the sight before him. There were several hundred people gathered staring at slides of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and other artists. The 83-year-old professor of law at New York University was amazed.
In Brooklyn, New York, there is a circus tradition that stretches back a century, so the borough always gives a warm welcome to the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus when it comes to town.
German visitors who love Oriental riverside towns will have the chance to see them on their home soil, thanks to an exhibition of oil paintings by eminent Chinese artist Wang Qijun. The ongoing exhibition continues through March 24 in Berlin, at the invitation of the Chinese Culture Center there.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been adapted in many forms since the bard wrote it in 1597. Chinese avant-garde woman director Tian Qinxin's production premiered at Hong Kong Arts Festival early this month and won wide acclaim for its modern approach and connection with China's social reality. The popular actress Yin Tao plays a unique Chinese Juliet and Li Guangjie Romeo.
An exhibition bringing together artists from Ireland and China not only sparks a dynamic visual conversation but also demonstrates the global bond between artists.
As journalists, we get to fly so frequently it's become like hopping on and off a bus, even if that bus is more often than not an Airbus. This year so far, my frequent-flyer miles have already been augmented by at least a dozen flights, both within China on short-haul routes and longer journeys abroad.
The 82-year-old hunchbacked shaman Liang Yongyu takes out his green gown, black headband and a sword from the bottom of a chest with trembling hands and puts them on with help from his wife.
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