The Metropolitan Opera Opera Film The Pearl Fishers in Beijing

Date: Jan 21 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 60 yuan

Bizet's rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year's Eve 2015, in Penny Woolcock's acclaimed new production. Star soprano Diana Damrau sings Leila, the virgin priestess at the center of the story. Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien are Nadir and Zurga, rivals for Leila's love who have sworn to renounce her to protect their friendship - and who get to sing one of opera's most celebrated duets," Au fond du temple saint." Nicolas Teste is the high priest Nourabad and Gianandrea Noseda conducts Bizet's supremely romantic score.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Phillipe Entremont Piano Recital in Beijing

Date: Jan 21 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-480 yuan

Throughout his career, Phillipe Entremont has played and recorded with many legendary conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez and Leopold Stokowski, among others. Additionally he has pursued a career as a conductor, and previously held the posts of Music Director of the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra, the Denver Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra where he has been given the title of Lifetime Laureate Conductor. In 2015, in conjunction with the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, he created the ENSM Chamber Orchestra.

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Shadow Play: Mulan in Shanghai

Date: Jan 6-Jan 13 - 10 am/2 pm

Venue: Ciro's Performing Arts Theater

Price: 80-120 yuan

The story of Hua Mulan, a girl who disguises herself as a man and goes to war in place of her elderly father has been adapted into numerous film and television works. This new shadow play version of the beloved story includes stunning sets, sentimental music and fantasy elements that breathe fresh life into an age-old art form. Shadow plays using silhouette puppets have a history of more than 2,000 years in China. These puppets are projected onto a backlit curtain while their articulating limbs are manipulated by artisans behind the screen, typically to the accompaniment of music.

Contact: 021-5456-2471