Tang-era riches Share CLOSE The Xi an Symphony Orchestra and its chorus will stage Chang an in Beijing on Saturday and Sunday.[Photo provided to China Daily]
A symphony concert combines the music and poetry of a former capital city, Chen Nan reports.
Chang an, a symphony concert themed on Tang Dynasty (618-907) poetry, premiered in Xi an, capital of Shaanxi province, on Nov 14.
The audience enjoyed a combination of classical music, traditional operas and
guqin (a zither-like seven-stringed traditional musical instrument) and Tang-era poems recited by veteran actors, including Pu Cunxin and Zhang Guoli.
The concert will be staged by the Xi an Symphony Orchestra and Xi an Symphony Orchestra Chorus at Beijing s National Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday and Sunday, as part of the ongoing China Orchestra Festival organized annually by the NCPA.
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By:Lu Yukun |
From:english.eastday.com | 2020-12-23 18:31
Duoyun Books, a local bookstore chain, is to launch a theater-themed new branch store on Changle Road in Huangpu District on Christmas Eve. The store will, aside from selling books, provide space for book reading, an art salon, café & dining as well as showcasing innovative cultural products.
Located near the 90-year old Lyceum Theatre, the new bookstore will mainly feature books related to theater and drama, scripts of plays, as well as original works.
Spiral staircases, movie props, chimneys, train-styled bookshelves; the whole bookstore is a richly stage-decorated space, awash with theatrical elements.
At the end of a rollicking production of William Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Tim Robbins and staged in China in June by the Los Angeles-based Actors’ Gang the director and actors returned to the stage for a dialogue with the Beijing audience.
The questions ran the normal gamut from accents to costumes to staging, and then one woman asked which Shakespeare the Gang planned to perform next. The affable Robbins turned the question around, asking what she would like to see.
“Macbeth,” came the answer.
Oberon (played by Pierre Adeli) in a performace of
A Midsummer Night s Dream, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, June 10, 2014.