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China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra

Date: Oct 21 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-200 yuan

Born into a musical family, Yang Yang began learning the piano when he was very young. He entered the Central Conservatory Middle School at the age of 12 under the guidance of pianist and educator Li Qifang. He then studied conducting with the conductor Xu Xin and Professor Wu Lingfen. In 1996, he entered the Central Conservatory to study with the conductor Professor Yu Feng.

China National Opera House, established in 1952, is a national level theater under China Ministry of Culture. It is a high standard theater in China and the Asia-Pacific area at present. The theater consists of opera ensemble, the chorus, the Symphony Orchestra and the stage design department.

The opera ensemble boasts excellent opera performers who have won many important music awards in and out of China and has been very active on China and world opera stages. Most of the performers of the chorus troupe are graduates from famous academies of music of China, who are all well educated performers.

Contact: 400-610-3721

In an Italian Garden - Les Arts Florissants Concert

Date: Oct 16 - 7 pm

Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall

Price: 80-880 yuan

An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists specialized in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments, Les Arts Florissants are renowned the world over. Founded in 1979 by the Franco-American harpsichordist and conductor William Christie, the Ensemble, named for a short opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, has played a pioneering role in the revival of a Baroque repertoire that had long been neglected (including the rediscovery of countless treasures in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France). Today that repertoire is widely performed and admired: not only French music from the reign of Louis XIV, but also more generally European music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Ensemble is directed by William Christie who, since 2007, has regularly passed the conductor's baton over to British tenor Paul Agnew. Les Arts Florissants enjoy an equally high profile in the concert hall, as illustrated by their many acclaimed concert or semi-staged performances of operas and oratorios (Rameau's Zoroastre, Anacreon and Les Fetes d'Hebe, Charpentier's Acteon and La Descente d'Orphee aux Enfers, Campra's Idomenee and Mozart's Idomeneo, Monteclair's Jephte, Rossi's L'Orfeo and Handel's Giulio Cesare with Cecilia Bartoli as well as his Messiah, Theodora, Susanna, Jephtha and Belshazzar), their secular and sacred chamber-music programs (petits motets by Lully and Charpentier, madrigals by Monteverdi and Gesualdo, court airs by Lambert, hymns by Purcell, among others) and their approach to large-scale works (particularly the grands motets by Rameau, Mondonville and Campra).

Contact: 400-610-3721