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2016 Shanghai Longines Global Champions Tour
Date: April 29-May 1 - 9:30 am
Venue: Shanghai Expo Park
Price: 880-1,270 yuan
This year Shanghai will host the 4th leg of the Tour from. Synonymous with glamour and new beginnings, Shanghai is renowned for its record-breaking skyscrapers which have sprung up where just twenty years ago there was only farmland. Many people visit Shanghai purely for the shopping experience. But if you would rather enjoy the renowned culture, art galleries offer contemporary local art and acrobatic shows are always close at hand. A massage is always popular with visitors if you are looking to relax inbetween enjoying the world-class showjumping on offer in the heart of the city.
NCPA Opera Production Tannhauser
Date: April 6-10 - 7 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 100-880 yuan
Wilhelm Wagner's life was characterized by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. Although his writings on music are controversy, his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century. Wagner wrote 14 operas in his lifetime. From Der Fliegende Hollander to Parsifal, these 10 operas represent musically a continuing development of the composer's style. And in his mid-stage output, Tannhauser was one of his three 'romantic operas' reinforced his reputation. Musically, Tannhauser Overture is frequently performed as a separate item in orchestral concerts.
Broadway Original Musical - My Fair Lady
Date: April 29-May 3 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Shanghai Daning Theater
Price: 50-999 yuan
My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady. The original Broadway, London and film versions all starred Rex Harrison.
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Date: March 31 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 100-580 yuan
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is one of the world's premier chamber orchestras, renowned for its fresh, brilliant interpretations of the world's most-loved classical music. Formed by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958 from a group of leading London musicians, the Academy gave its first performance in its namesake church in November 1959. Life President of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner began his career as a violinist, playing first in a string quartet and trio, then in the London Symphony Orchestra. During this period he founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with the aim of forming a top-class chamber ensemble from London's finest players. As a player, Sir Neville had observed some of the greatest conductors at close quarters.
2016 Naga Guitars - Masaaki Kishibe live In Wuhan
Date: April 8 - 7 pm
Venue: Luojiashan Theater
Price: 80-360 yuan
Masaaki Kishibe is an acoustic guitarist from Japan. While Kishibe is widely known around Japan and other eastern countries, he was not particularly well known in the US until he performed at the 32nd Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS in 2003 taking 2nd place overall in Fingerstyle Guitar; then subsequently touring with guitarist another former Walnut Valley winner, Andy McKee, throughout Taiwan. As McKee continued to rise to fame in the US, and helped bring attention to fingerstyle playing with the uploading of his videos of Rylynn and Drifting to YouTube garnering millions of plays and overnight fandom.
Maurizio Pollini Piano Recital NCPA Piano Virtuosos 2016
Date: April 3 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 200-1,200 yuan
The name Maurizio Pollini evokes an extremely important career, the story of a man and an artist known all over the world, prized by audiences and critics of every latitude and several generations. He has been awarded many International prizes: the Vienna Philharmonic Ehrenring in 1987, the Goldenes Ehrenzeichen of the Town Salzburg in 1995, the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Prize in Munich in 1996, the A Life for Music - Artur Rubinstein Prize in Venice in 1999 and the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize in Milan in 2000.
(China Daily 03/26/2016 page20)
