Beautiful Life, a concert by five renowned Chinese sopranos and tenors, will be staged on International Women's Day and dedicated to women and especially mothers.

The concert will be presented in storytelling form and portray women's four life stages, which take them from being children to having children.

Central Conservatory of Music soprano Sun Yuanyuan will sing Three Wishes of Roses, That's Me and Beautiful Like An Angel. The other performers are CCTV Youth Singing Contest gold winner Tenor Xue Haoyin, Chinese People's Liberation Army Naval Song and Dance Troupe soprano Gan Lulu, Royal Academy of Music scholar Wang Dongjuan and pianist Zhang Jialin.

8 pm, March 9. Forbidden City Concert Hall (inside Zhongshan Park), Northwest of Tian'anmen Square, Beijing. 010-6559-8285.