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( China Daily ) Updated: 2015-11-21 14:02:12

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Rachmanimoff's Cycle I: Mariinsky Orchestra & Valery Gergiev

Date: Dec 3-Dec 4-7 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-880 yuan

The Mariinsky Orchestra is one of the oldest in Russia. Its history dates back to the first orchestra of the St. Petersburg Imperial Opera Orchestra, covering a period of over two hundred years. For the show, the conductor will be Valery Gergiev, artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theatre and Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. He is also the dean of the Faculty of Arts of the St Petersburg State University, and the chairman of the Organizational Committee of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Pianists for the show include Daniel Kharitonov and George Li. The performance will cover Symphony No 1 in Minor, Op 13, Piano Concert No 1 in F-sharp Mino, Op 1, Piano Conterto No 2 in C Minor, Op 18, Symphonic Dance, Op 45 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Philippe Bizot-40 Years of Silence in Beijing

Date: Nov 23-Dec 1

Venue: Penghao Theater

Price: 150-270 yuan

According to French mime artist Philippe Bizot, "The play is life, so you don't act." Philippe Bizot doesn't say a word on stage and yet, using exaggerated facial expressions and body movements, he expresses himself perfectly. "Silence is my language, my music, and my song," the 58-year-old French mime artist says. "The art of pantomime is a universal language, the language of emotion." The renewed version of 40 Years of Silence consists of 13 short stories as a retrospective of Bizot's 40 year career as a mine

Contact: 400-610-3721

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