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Date: July 8－7:30

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 50-380 yuan

Michael Korstick is an important German pianist of our time. His playing is documented on numerous award-winning CDs. Critics point out that the characteristic feature of his playing is the astonishing balance between brilliant virtuosity and musical intensity, reconciling strong individuality with uncompromising fidelity to the score.

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Date: July 1－7:30 pm

Venue: Tianqiao Performing Arts Center

Price: 90-580 yuan

The Miser entertains us with its bouncy plot, its fanciful misunderstandings and its hilarious bravura. Ludovic Lagarde gives to this great classic a new energy and highlights how this social and psychological satire is so very contemporary. With spectacular scenography showing the back of a bourgeois house where goods are amassed Ludovic Lagarde orchestrates a physical and merciless battle between Harpagon and his tyrannized relatives. The play, brought to us by a ravishing troupe of actors, is magnified by the extraordinary Laurent Poitrenaux in the title role, as an irresistible and ferocious Harpagon.