Shows

China Film Symphony Orchestra

Date: July 6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

China Film Symphony Orchestra is one of the outstanding national orchestras founded earliest in the People's Public of China. Over 60 years, along with the development of China's film and television music arts, the Orchestra has performed music for nearly 2,000 films, TV dramas, and documentaries. The Orchestra also performed music in more than 40 countries and regions, and played symphonic concerts, opera and ballets with international conductors, composers, musicians and dancers for many times to promote Chinese music development and international cultural exchange.

Peter Rosel Piano Recital

Date: July 8 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

Born in Dresden as the son of a conductor and a singer, Peter Rosel had his first piano lessons at the age of six. He completed a five-year study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Dmitri Bashkirov and Lev Oborin. At that time, he became not only the first German prize winner at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and the Montreal Piano Competition, but he also started an international career, which has taken him to the music centers of all continents. In 2011, Peter Rosel continued his recital series performing all 32 Ludwig van Beethoven sonatas within a period of four years. The artist presented this series in Japan, Germany and Switzerland, and was enthusiastically acclaimed at the Prague Spring Festival.

NCPA Dance Drama Commission The Railway to Tibet

Date: June 30-July 3 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

In 2007, bulldozers, drilling rigs, cranes and other large-sized machinery and equipment march toward Guanjiao Mountain slowly from a distance on the horizon. Under tumultuous background sounds, a group of railway builders arrive at Guanjiao Mountain and break ground for the new Guanjiao Tunnel in Qinghai province. Passing by piles of rocks, the railway builders happen to meet a middle-aged Tibetan woman (Yangchen) and her younger brother (Suolang). They hold butter lamps in their hands, and scatter a handful of highland barley to piles of rocks and ground as if they hold a memorial ceremony for someone. Catching sight of railway builders, Suolang inexplicably bubbles over with enthusiasm and speaks Tibetan language beyond railway builders' understanding. He rushes to stop them from drawing close to piles of rocks. Yangchen calmly and affectionately stares at the piles of rocks scattered around her, whispering something with a sophisticate's low and deep voice. Everyone listens to her story and time seems to travel back to 30 years ago.

Music in the Summer Air: Velvet Underground 50th Anniversary Memorial Concert in Shanghai

Date: July 11 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Symphony Hall

The Velvet Underground are an avantgarde New York City band whose unconventional and screeching sounds paved and shaped the roads of "underground" rock 'n' roll. Beginning in small clubs, the band originally enjoyed a cultlike following of dedicated fans, who rejoiced in a sound that, at the time, was deemed "undanceable". Eventually, the band emerged from the cracks and shadows of Greenwich Village to form a union with the infamous Andy Warhol, whose notoriety catapulted the group of experimentalists to new and unseen heights. As they linked up to travel the Unites States, they overwhelmed audiences everywhere with a surreal concoction of images, films, lighting effects, and music, known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour. With not only a rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame induction under their belt but also four albums in the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of all Time, The Velvet Underground still influences a younger generation of artists, who one can only hope will uphold the underground's tradition of challenging and piercing the conventional boundaries of not only music, but creativity as a whole.

Musical: Kinky Boots in Shanghai

Date: July 11-22 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square

The winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a Tony Award-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell. Inspired by true events, it takes you from a gentlemen's shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father's expectations and continue the family business of Price & Son. With the factory's future hanging in the balance, help arrives in the unlikely but spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos. This joyous musical celebration is about the friendships we discover, and the belief that you can change the world when you change your mind. It has won every major Best Musical Award and is represented around the world with the Tony Award-winning Broadway company now in its fifth year.

Teater Refleksion: The Way Back Home

Date: June 30-July 8 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Children Art Theatre

When the boy discovers a single-propeller airplane in his closet, he does what any young adventurer would do: He flies into outer space! This wonderful story explores the boundless imagination of children. Through puppet animation and wonderful music we tell the story of one boy's adventure into outer space and the quest he must undertake to help his new friend. "Oliver Jeffers' book jumps off the page and into space in this beautiful stage adaptation." - Irish Times Produced in association with Baboro International Arts Festival for Children. Teater Refleksion creates performances for children and adults alike. They have during the past 25 years created a unique knowledge and skills in puppetry and animation theatre. The performances are created in an intense production work where every detail and every movement is refined and perfected. It requires great precision and attention to create the illusion that the puppet has life. When seeing one of Teater Refleksion's performances one has to devote oneself to a concentrated presence and intense attention. To them the content is of great importance - they strive for universality in the choice of story or theme. At its best the performance can be enjoyed by both adults and children. If the performances are able to inspire the audiences to live their lives with courage and engagement, then they succeed in our aim to touch and challenge.