Beijing

Westlife concert

Legendary Irish boy band Westlife will hit Beijing this month, as they bring their 11th album Gravity with them. The quartet is well-known for their hits like My love, World of Our Own and The Rose. The band will tour three cities including Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing.

7:30 pm, Sept 25. MasterCard Center (formerly the Wukesong Arena), 69 Fuxing Lu, Haidian district, Beijing. 010-8822-8118

Music of the city

Intercity Music Festival 2011 is to start in Beijing, bringing together bands and celebrities from New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Macao, Hong Kong, Xi'an and other cities across the world. The festival will star influential rock band Biohazard, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Taylor Momsen's band. All performances will be staged outdoor.

1 pm - 9 pm, Sept 11, 12. Chaoyang Park, 1 Chaoyang Park Nanlu, Chaoyang district. 010-6506-5409

Beautiful China

A photo exhibition, entitled Beautiful China - Series of Human, has raised its curtain at the China Millennium Monument. It displays 120 photos selected from more than 50,000 contributions taken by around 600 photographers countrywide. Through the lenses, the audience can experience the life, culture and custom of the Chinese people. This show is part of Beautiful China photo exhibition, echoing a previous Beautiful China Series of Nature held in 2009. All the exhibits will be shown at the Chinese Culture Festival in Nepal in December.

9 am-5 pm, until Sept 5 except Mondays. Beijing World Art Museum, China Millennium Monument, A9 Fuxinglu, Haidian district. 010-5980-2222

Shanghai

Mozart's opera

Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra will present two-act opera Cosi fan tutte by Mozart. The show will be conducted by Tang Muhai and the leading roles taken by Chen Jingwei, Lei Ming and Tian Yuan.

7:30 pm, Sept 9. Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 425 Dingxiang Lu. 021-6854-1234

Tibetan scenes

Liu Guofu graduated from the Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s and was active in China's first wave contemporary art movement. Later he traveled a lot and lived away from the city. His recent paintings are about Tibetan culture and life. By singing praise for the lost beauty of the nature, he challenges today's consumerism and materialization.

9 am-5 pm, until Sept 8. Shanghai Art Museum, 325 Nanjing Xilu. 021-6327-2829

Hong Kong

Trouble in paradise

Is there really a Shangri-La? Some imagine the contemporary art world to be a Utopian-like place where artists circulate unrestricted by nationality or ethnicity. Clare Harris argues otherwise in a talk based on her upcoming paper, Trouble in Shangri-La: Tibetan Artists' Travels in the Contemporary Artworld. Harris, a curator of Asian Collections at Pitt Rivers Museum, maintains that the art world is just like any other, with its own set of rules for inclusion and exclusion. For a group of contemporary Tibetan artists participating in international exhibitions, Shangri-La proves to be rude awakening.

6:30 pm-8 pm, Sept 5. Asia Art Archive, A Space, Room 1001, 10/F, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan. 852-2815-1112

Tickling the ivories

Even the most experienced pianists tremble in fear when faced with Rach 3. Rachmaninov's masterpiece is often hailed as the summit of piano concertos as it calls for poetry, nerves and stamina all in equal measure. The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra's performance of Rachmaninov Gala - Rach 3 will boast the talents of Macedonian virtuoso Simon Trpceski performing the work under the baton of Dutch conductor Lawrence Renes. Also on the program is Rachmaninov's second symphony, featuring a long and passionate melody for clarinet to the accompaniment of quiet strings.

8 pm, Sept 9, 10. Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. 852-2734-9009

Macao

Light fantastic

If you missed Encounters: Audiovisual Mapping of St. Paul's Ruins during this May's Macao Arts Festival, this is a great opportunity to catch a reprisal. The stunning light and sound show was commissioned by the city's Cultural Affairs Bureau and created by Barcelona-based Telenoika with support by Panda Artist Management. Using state of the art audiovisual technology, structured images and original music, the show recounts the history of Macao. Images projected onto the actual ruins against the backdrop of city lights offer a spectacular visual feast.

8 pm and 9 pm, Sept 4. Ruins of St. Paul's, Rua de Sao Paulo. 853-8399-6699

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(China Daily 09/04/2011 page15)