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Kristjan Jarvi Conducts Doctor Atomic Symphony & Shostakovich Symphony

Date: Feb 19 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-480 yuan

Hailed by New York Times as "a kinetic force on the podium, like Leonard Bernstein reborn", Jarvi has combined his classical roots and affinity for traditional repertoire with an infectious enthusiasm for creating original programs, propelling classical concert halls around the globe into the 21st century. John Adams' opera of Doctor Atomic, with the libretto by Peter Sellars, focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb was being prepared. In 2007, Adams adapted the opera into the Doctor Atomic Symphony. "Seventh Symphony" is the most realistic one of Shostakovich's symphonies. At first, Shostakovich gave each of the four movements of the work a title, "War", "Memories", "Our Country's Wide Spaces" and "Victory in the Future", respectively. These titles were later removed, but the fact that they had once appeared, implies that the composer had intended to use an epic tone to express his feelings and thoughts about the war.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Russian National Ballet Theater: Sleeping Beauty in Beijing

Date: Feb 11 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Poly Theater

Price: 100-1,600 yuan

The Russian National Ballet Theatre was founded with support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The basic principle of the theatre is to preserve the creative heritage of Russian ballet and to search for new forms in choreography. Its repertoire includes not only classical performances such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, but also modern ballets set to the music of Mozart, Bach, and Ravel. In 2001, Evgeny Amosov became the Artistic Director of the theatre. He was graduated from the Perm Academy of choreography and then joined the Ekaterinburg Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet as a principal dancer. He is also a prize-winner of Russian and International choreography contests of ballet-masters and ballet dancers.

Contact: 400-610-3721

NCPA Opera Production La Gioconda in Beijing

Date: Jan 27-31 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-880 yuan

With a natural talent, Daniel Oren developed his own particular interest for the Opera by the great Leonard Bernstein who in 1968 chose him, just thirteen years old, as lead vocalist in his Chichester Psalms's for the inauguration of the Israel Television; in reality it was the mother to start the young Daniel, still at an early age, a complete musical education by studying not only the piano and cello, but with singing and harmony. Maestro Oren then perfected his studies in Europe, devoting himself almost exclusively to conducting and taken part in 1975, winning, the prestigious competition 'Herbert von Karajan' for young conductors: from that moment the young artist began an international career.

Contact: 400-610-3721