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Cloud Gate Dance Theater Rice
Date: Nov 2-5 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 100-680 yuan
The inspiration for Rice came from the landscape and story of Chihshang in the East Rift Valley of Taiwan. Previously tainted by the use of chemical fertilizer, this farming village has now regained its title as the Land of the Emperor's Rice by adopting organic farming. Awed by the immense waves of grain rolling across expansive fields of rice, Lin took the dancers to Chihshang, where they joined the farmers in harvesting the rice. Out of this experience in the field, Lin has created exuberant yet powerful movements woven through Soil, Sunlight, Wind, Water and Fire, telling the story of the land while contemplating the devastation of Earth.
Contact: 400-610-3721
Jonas Kaufman Solo Concert in Shenzhen
Date: Nov 11 - 8 pm
Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall
Price: 280-1,280 yuan
Jonas Kaufmann is a German operatic tenor. He is best known for his performances in spinto roles such as Don Jos�� in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, and the title role in Don Carlos. He has also sung leading tenor roles in the operas of Richard Wagner with success in Germany and abroad, most notably the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He is also an accomplished Lieder singer. In 2014 The New York Times described Kaufmann as "a box-office draw, and ... the most important, versatile tenor of his generation."
Contact: 400-610-3721
Lyu Siqing Violin Recital
Date: Nov 2 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 80-580 yuan
Lyu Siqing was the first Asian violinist to win the first prize in the prestigious Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy, 1987. Hailed by Strad as "an outstanding talent", Lyu has given performances in more than 40 countries. Those performances have taken him to some of the world's most prestigious concert halls, including Musikverein in Vienna, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. Apart from an active soloist on stage globally, Lyu is also dedicated to chamber music. Contact: 400-610-3721
Nederlands Dans Theater 1 Shoot the Moon
Date: Oct 28-29 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 100-680 yuan
Nederlands Dans Theater 1 (NDT 1) is one of the world's leading contemporary dance companies, under artistic guidance of Paul Lightfoot. The Dutch troupe is based in The Hague, but performs for over 115.000 visitors in Europe as well as in the USA, Asia and Australia. Since its founding in 1959, the top company has built a rich repertoire of 600 ballets by master choreographers Jir�� Kyli��n and Hans van Manen, renowned house choreographers Sol Le��n & Paul Lightfoot, associate choreographers Crystal Pite, Johan Inger, Alexander Ekman and Marco Goecke and high-profile guests such as Gabriela Carrizo, Hofesh Shechter and Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
NCPA Peking Opera Commission Red Cliff
Date: Oct 30-Nov 1 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 100-500 yuan
In the winter of the thirteenth year during the reign of Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, a navy and army of 830 thousand soldiers invades the Kingdom of Wu under the command of Cao Cao (the Kingdom of Wei). Hearing the news, the ministers of the Kingdom of Wu gets into a panic, some advocating fighting back, some advising to surrender, leaving the king Sun Quan unable to make a final decision.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
National Peking Opera Company Return of the Phoenix
Date: Nov 11 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 100-500 yuan
Cheng Pu, a vice minister retires on account of old age and returns to his hometown. He has two daughters, of whom the elder one, whose name is Xueyan, is ugly, while the younger, whose name is Xue'e, is beautiful and clever. Cheng Pu goes for a spring outing and comes across his friend's son Mu Juyi. He has a thing for Mu Juyi and invites the young man to his birthday party. Returning home, he tells his wife what has happened on the way and plans to marry Xue'e to Mu, but his wife strongly insists marring Xueyan to Mu.
On Cheng's birthday, Zhu Huanran comes to the party and falls in love with Xue'e at the sight of her. Mrs Cheng mistakenly believes that Mu has tacitly consented to the proposal of marriage and asks him to stay in Cheng's house. Xueyan goes to visit Mu at night under her sister's name, but Mu turns her down and takes French leave. He runs into Zhu on the way, and the latter gives him silver ingots and a horse hypocritically to make him go far away. It happens that Cheng Pu is reinstated and returns to the army with military supervisor Zhou. He runs into Mu on the road and takes the latter to the barracks. Zhu disguises himself as the bridegroom, and so Xueyan passes herself as the bride under Mrs Cheng's instigation, but the new couple later gets to know each other's true identity. At the very time, traitors are rising in revolt, and Mrs Cheng goes to Zhu's house alone for shelter, but Zhu has been impoverished due to a fire disaster. Cheng Pu puts down the rebellion, and Xue'e comes to her father. Then comes an echo of bringing up proposal of marriage, but Mu rejects it. Honggong and supervisor Zhou spare no effort to bring him around, and the air is cleared in the bridal chamber. Then, Zhu, Xueyan and Mrs Cheng come to seek shelter, and they have a family reunion.
Contact: 400-610-3721
China Pingju Opera Theater A Beautiful Night
Date: Nov 14 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 100-500 yuan
Li Xiuru becomes a widow at a young age and earns a living as an innkeeper. Her life seems dull and gray along with her heart. But then a young scholar named, Di Renjie, who is on his way to the capital to sit for an examination, visits the inn. As he reads out loud, his voice re-ignites Li Xiuru's gray heart, such as a gust of spring breeze. She is surprised to discover the young scholar looks similar to her late husband. She serves him a hot meal. Nevertheless, the old servant sees her as a jinx and gets her out of the room by every means possible.
She returns to a lonely life only to find that she has fallen in love with Di. She feels frightened and hopes the spirit of her dead husband may divert herself from loneliness. But her husband's ghost never arrives, whereas Di crashes into her new life. She loses her heart to Di, and bravely express her feelings to him. Unexpectedly, Di persuades her to comply with feudal ethics. Hence, they part from each other.
Yet, Di sees a beautiful widow in his dream and realizes he also loves with the widowed innkeeper. As a young man, who never experienced love, he is struck with panic and leaves the inn without saying good-bye. But the separation can help one better understand what is right and wrong. When ruminating over such torment, Li remains convinced she deserves to love another man, and recognizes that Di holds the same feelings for her. So, she expects him to return. Leaving the inn, Di sees ospreys flying together and is inspired. He obeys his inward voice and returns to the inn amid the pouring rain.
Contact: 400-610-3721
Nothing's Carved in Stone Live in Shanghai
Date: Nov 11-12 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Bandai Namco Shanghai Base Future House
Price: 380-480 yuan
Nothing's Carved in Stone is a Japanese rock group formed in January 2009. Their 2009 debut album proved that this band has it's own unique sound and a rocking band chemistry which is seen in their energetic live performance. On 2013, the band continued their string of successful tie-up songs, as their single Out of Control was selected to be an opening theme of the hit anime Psycho-Pass. Following the release of their fifth album, Revolt, in June.
Contact: 400-610-3721
Monologues Revel's World of Shakespeare in Suzhou
Date: Oct 28 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Dushu Lake Theater
Price: 60-280 yuan
Revel's World of Shakespeare was written and will be performed by Joseph Graves, directed by himself as well. Graves draws heavily on his considerable personal experiences with Shakespearean plays and study of the plays' articulations. Graves magically weaves a wildly comedic and deeply moving tale of childhood confusion and exploration, relating it all to the greatest of English writers, William Shakespeare.
Being the artistic director of PKU Institute of World Theatre and Film, Graves, over the last 28 years has directed over 50 stage productions, including classical, contemporary, musical theater and opera, in the United States, Great Britain and China, such productions include: Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Alchemist, The Sea Gull, Three Sisters, The Private Lives of The Master Race and Fiddler on the Roof at such notable venues as The Welsh National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, and The Haymarket Theatre (West End) in Great Britain and numerous theaters throughout the United States as well as several in China.
Contact: 400-610-3721
Musical West Side Story
Date: Nov 23-Dec 6 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Shanghai Culture Square
Price: 200-1,000 yuan
Provocative finger snapping of street gangs, Puerto Rican girls' whirling skirts on New York City's flat roofs, derelict West Side back yards - just a few notes of Leonard Bernstein's world-famous score, featuring songs such as Maria, Tonight, Somewhere, America and I Feel Pretty, immediately evoke these images of West Side Story. At its 1957 Broadway premiere the musical redefined an entire genre both musically and in terms of dance. The genius of its four creators - Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim - produced a piece whose great artistic quality remains unquestioned to this day.
The film version won ten Oscars and brought the masterwork to an audience of millions just a few years later. Today West Side Story stands unchallenged as the No 1 of American musical theater - daring, realistic, and as relevant as on the day of its premiere.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
Activities & nightlife
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Date: Oct 27-28 - 6:30 pm
Venue: Blue Note Beijing
Price: 280 yuan
Grammy nominated, fashion forward, socially conscious trumpeter Christian Scott a Tunde Adjuah will grace the stage and play his eclectic, boundary pushing tunes.
Contact: 400-610-3721
Bloodweiser Halloween Modern Night in Shanghai
Venue: Jian Tao Sky Warehouse
Price: 120-280 yuan
As the wild and thrilling carnival of Halloween approaches, Budweiser, an American-style lager owned by Leuven-based Anheuser-Busch InBev held Bloodweiser Halloween Modern Night in Shanghai, created a new-style "fearless" in its first crossover endeavor.
Bloodweiser not only presented the special series for Halloween Budweiser in its cooperation with three "true self" designers from Labelhood, but also set a special stage for fashion shows at Halloween Modern Night, where people can see vampires embodying Mix & Match Street Style, zombies performing rebellious Rock& Roll, witches dancing with cool and free moves, featuring independence and beauty.
Contact: 137-0197-2878
Sports
Audi Cup of China ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2017
Date: Nov 3-5 - 3 pm
Venue: Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing
Price: 80-580 yuan
It is one of the highest-level figure skating series events in the world, which will attract all top figure skaters from different countries. The first Cup of China was hosted in 2003 and it has been organized successfully in the successive 14 years. This year the participating teams are highlight enough. Four projects are participated by world champions.
Moreover, European Champions, Four Continents Champions and World Youth Champions will also compete on COC, which is absolutely worth expecting.
Contact: 400-610-3721
