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Date: Nov 18-20－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-580 yuan

The dance drama Thousand-hand Bodhisattva is a recreation on the basis of the legend of Thousand-hand Bodhisattva widely circulated. It is a story with fable implications: Long long ago, a plague struck the State of Dai and even the King was not spared. Third Princess is prodigal of benefactions. She asks for permission to look for the magic lotus to save her father's life. Led by the Red Dragonfly, she has finally found the magic lotus thorough twists and turns and all kinds of trials. While in the face of the people suffering the abysses of misery, she resolutely offers the magic lotus instead.

Peking opera and Music Epic Long March Suite

Date: Nov 9－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 60-200 yuan

With Long March Suite (the 1965 version of the large vocal work) created by General Xiao Hua as the literary script, the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts adopts the form of Peking opera music, brings together excellent Chinese Peking opera composer and music composers, integrates different professions, genres, varying systematic melodies, diverse singing approaches and multiple musical styles, and originally creates and interprets the unique original Peking opera work Long March Suite to tell the brilliant story of the Long March in the history of the Chinese revolution.