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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, inc...

Nearly a dozen pianists from China enter the first round of this year's Leeds International Piano Competition, Chen Nan reports.

Notes from the past Share CLOSE At 92, Zheng Xiaoying is China's first female orchestral conductor following the founding of People's Republic of China in 1949.[Photo provided to China Daily] Accomplished conductor Zheng Xiaoying brings a composition about the history and lives of the Hakka people to the nation's capital, Chen Nan reports. Despite a lifetime of achievement, most notably, perhaps, being the country's first female orchestral conductor following the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Zheng Xiaoying, at the age of 92, still feels that she ha...

A moving performance Share CLOSE The China NCPA Orchestra will start its first nationwide tour on Saturday. The orchestra will visit six cities: Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.[Photo provided to China Daily] Work by composer Zhao Jiping set to feature on NCPA Orchestra's first nationwide tour, Chen Nan reports. The China NCPA Orchestra, the resident orchestra of the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, will kick off its first nationwide tour on Saturday from Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The tour, through April 17, will include fiv...

The fallen woman once again attracts admirers By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-08 08:15 Share La Traviata, one of the most frequently performed operas.[Photo provided to China Daily] A new NCPA production of Verdi's classic, La Traviata, takes to the stage as part of the center's ongoing opera festival, Chen Nan reports. In 2010, the production of La Traviata by the National Center for the Performing Arts premiered under the baton of maestro Lorin Maazel at the NCPA's opera house. The creative team gathered together international ar...