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Streams of dreams Share CLOSE Traditional Chinese art forms take on a fresh look at Bilibili's year-end gala show. Highlights include Qiu Jirong's performance of traditional operas. [Photo provided to China Daily] The video site Bilibili presents a New Year gala that appeals to younger viewers, Chen Nan reports.  Many people just wanted to say goodbye to 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And many celebrated New Year's Eve by watching galas online or on TV from the comfort of their homes. On Dec 31, Chinese streaming platform Bilibili broadcast its 4.5-hour gala, f...

  Concert to mark Party centenary Adjust font size: Conductor Yu Long (center) and musicians of the China Philharmonic Orchestra go through rehearsals earlier this year in Beijing. The orchestra will stage a New Year concert on Wednesday. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Orchestras to ring in new year with rousing renditions of classics and modern pieces, Chen Nan reports.  Under the baton of conductor Yu Long, the China Philharmonic Orchestra will welcome the new year with a concert at Beijing's Poly Theater on Wednesday. They will perform along with musicians from two other Chinese symp...

Staging stories of a literary luminary By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-28 07:45 Share CLOSE My Ideal Life, which will premiere at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on Dec 29 and 30, will conclude the fourth edition of the Lao She Theater Festival. [Photo provided to China Daily] The fourth Lao She Theater Festival invokes new approaches to examining the life and work of one of China's most illustrious men of letters, Chen Nan reports.  When director and scriptwriter Jiang Tonglin was commissioned to create a n...

Pioneer notes Share CLOSE Opera singers from home and abroad present a concert in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, featuring winning works commissioned by the iSING! International Young Artists Festival. Tang Dynasty poems are set to the original music by composers from around the world.[Photo provided to China Daily] A contest sees musicians compose original pieces to accompany Tang poetry, Chen Nan reports. In 2010, internationally renowned bass opera singer Tian Haojiang launched program I Sing Beijing to promote an understanding of the contemporary operatic scene in China,...

Strike up the bands Share The Tianjin Juilliard School has finally started its graduate program, Chen Nan reports. When Alexander Brose and He Wei first came to Tianjin in 2017 to prepare for the opening of the Tianjin Juilliard School-the first overseas campus of the New York-based performing arts conservatory-only four people were there and the building of the new school was still on paper. Today, they have not only developed the Tianjin Juilliard School in numbers, with over 70 staff members, over 40 faculty members and about 130 students, but are also building the school culture...