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Love. Dream. Hope: Zhang Liping Vocal Recital

Date: March 5－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-480 yuan

A series of outstanding interpretations in both the bel canto and lyric repertoire have established Zhang Liping as one of opera's leading international sopranos, with engagements at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera New York, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Regio di Parma, Opéra de Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, and the China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA).

NCPA Drama Commission The Lei Family, the Royal Architects

Date: March 5-8－7:30 pm

Price: 100-500 yuan

It is a mysterious family that in charge of royalty construction projects, building innumerable glories and resplendence for 260 years. It is a group of brilliant crafts who changed Beijing into the Beijing City through generations of hard-working and wisdom. It is a legendary family of architects, whose name is Yangshi Lei, an architects' family who got praise for great palaces, temples and mansions designed and constructed by them with millions of workers, like the Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace.

The NCPA will bring the legend of this family onto stage firstly after four years preparation.