Bloch Conducts Debussy, Chen Qigang and Beethoven

Date: March 2-3 - 7:30 pm

Venue: NCPA, Beijing

Maestro Alexander Bloch, a new-generation French conductor, will join the NCPA Orchestra and Chorus to present two chorus and orchestra works by Debussy and Chen Qigang as well as Beethoven's Symphony No 3 and No 4. The concert program features the world premiere of Chen Qigang's Jiang Tcheng Tse, a work jointly commissioned by NCPA and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, as well as the choral version of Debussy's Nocturnes, a rarely performed piece in China.

Dance Drama Li Bai

Date: March 10-11 - 7:30 pm

Venue: NCPA, Beijing

Li Bai is one of the greatest Chinese poets, who lived in the flourishing days of the Tang Dynasty. His poems sound graceful and soulful, and he is honored as "poet god" in later ages and holds an important place in the history of Chinese literature. It is for the first time in China that Li Bai's part is acted out in the form of dance drama. Several fragments of his life will be acted to disclose his patriotic complex and the favorable or unfavorable turns in his life, so as to show audiences Li Bai's image in the form of dance, and reveal how he was unrestrained and how his poems were masterly.