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Penny Tai 2012 Shanghai Concert
• Date:
1st October,2012 19:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Oriental Art
Center - Concert Hall
• Ticket Price (RMB):
880, 580, 480, 380 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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"The Animal Carnival" Concert
• Date:
2nd October,2012 10:00
• Venue:
He Luting Concert Hall
• Ticket Price (RMB):
300, 200 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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2012 Dream China - Large National Day
Festival Concert
• Date:
3rd October,2012 19:15
• Venue:
Shanghai Culture Square
• Ticket Price (RMB):
480,380,280 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Flamenco "Carmen"
by The Spanish Ballet of Murcia
• Date:
4th October, 2012 19:15
• Venue:
Shanghai Oriental Art Center Opera Hall
• Ticket Price (RMB):
880, 680, 480Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Yueju Opera
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Yueju opera (simplified Chinese: 越剧; traditional Chinese: 越劇; pinyin: Yuèjù, Yue
opera) is a form of Chinese opera founded around 1906 in Shengzhou, Zhejiang
province. Over time, it grew in popularity, now the second most popular form of
Chinese opera only to the Peking opera.[1][2] It is highly popular in Zhejiang,
Shanghai, Jiangsu and Fujian, while its audiences are all over China.
Originated from the folks and ballad singing of rural area in Zhejiang, by drawing the
experience of other developed Chinese opera forms such as Peking opera and
Kunqu, Yueju Opera became popular in Shanghai in early 1930s. During the Second
Sino-Japanese War, Yueju performers in Shanghai launched a movement to reform
the Yueju performance, including learning from Western cultures, which made Yueju
opera remarkably different with other forms of Chinese opera. After the foundation of
People's Republic of China, Yueju opera was welcomed by the government and
Communist Party of China at first, and reached a pinnacle popularity in late 1950s
and early 1960s. However, during the Cultural Revolution, like other traditional
Chinese art forms, Yueju performances were outlawed, which cause a serious
setback in its development. Since the 1980s, Yueju became popular again, while
being challenged by new amusement forms.
Yueju opera features elegant and soft, which made it suitable for telling love stories. It
was initially performed by men only, but female groups started performing in the style
in 1923, and during the 1930s, the form became female-only.
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Yueju Opera "Jade Hairpin"
by Shanghai Yueju Opera Troupe
• Date:
6th October,2012 19:15
• Venue:
Shanghai City Theatre
• Ticket Price (RMB):
160, 120, 80, 60 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Ballet "Swan Lake" by the Russian
State Acadamic Classic Ballet Theatre
• Date:
7th October,2012 19:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Culture Square
• Ticket Price (RMB):
1080, 680, 380 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Peking Opera Highlights
• Date:
9th October,2012 19:15
• Venue:
Yi Fu Theatre
• Ticket Price (RMB):
150, 100, 80, 50, 30 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Drama "Upset"
• Date:
10th October,2012 19:30
• Venue:
Ke Center for the
Contemporary Arts
• Ticket Price (RMB):
120, 100 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Drama "The Call of Life"
• Date:
11st October, 2012 19:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center
- Arts Theatre
• Ticket Price (RMB):
280,180,150 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Peony Pavilion
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The Peony Pavilion (Chinese: 牡丹亭; pinyin: mǔdāntíng) is a play written by Tang Xianzu in the
Ming Dynasty and first performed in 1598 at the Pavilion of Prince Teng.[1] One of Tang's "Four
Dreams", it has traditionally been performed as a Kunqu (昆曲/崑曲) opera, but Chuan (川) and
Gan (赣/贛) opera versions also exist. It is by far the most popular play of the Ming Dynasty, and is
the primary showcase of the guimendan (闺门旦/閨門旦) role type. All Kun theatre troupes include
it in their repertoire. Recent adaptations have sought to inject new life into one of China's bestloved classical operas, though such efforts have met with opposition from the Kun opera
traditionalists.
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Albeit conventional in its narrative structure, notably its deus ex machina ending, The Peony
Pavilion is distinguished particularly by the play's highly refined and subtle lyrics and is hailed as
another height in Chinese literature. Aided by the then newly developed Kun music, the lyrical
proses of the Peony Pavilion weave a fabric of nuances and metaphors that elegantly
transgresses the divide between the beauty of nature and man's inner cosmos of emotions and
desires. Through the lights and shadows of its lyrical fabric transpire a ravishing sensitivity and
intoxicating effeteness and, almost antithetically, a persistent tone of youthful optimism. The magic
of the play's language quickly carries the audience to a unique experience of literary and musical
pleasure. The Peony Pavilion is a banquet of metaphors, a dance of the imagination and most of
all, a celebration of sensitivity. For this reason it sets the measure for all later Kun operas.
These features are particularly prominent in three of the earliest acts, "A walk in the Garden" (游园
/遊園), "The Interruption Of a Dream" (惊梦/驚夢)(these two acts were grouped as a single act in
the original text) and "Reflection On the Lost Dream" (寻梦/尋夢), which are generally considered
the apogee of Chinese kunqu for their literary achievements as well as for their musicality,
choreography and the integration of all these components. For these reasons the play's lyrics
pose a daunting challenge to attempts at their translation.
Shortly after their completion, the original scores of the opera by Tang Xianzu (汤显祖),
considered awkward and difficult for performers, were greatly revised by Shen Jing (沈璟), a major
figure in the formation of Chinese kunqu, not without many disputes and resistance from Tang
Xianzu himself.
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Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion"
• Date:
13th October,2012 17:45
• Venue:
Zhu Jiajiao Kezhi Garden
• Ticket Price (RMB):
1500, 1080, 480, 280, 180,
80 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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The Weekly Radio Concert by Dumky Trio
• Date:
14th October ,2012 10:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Concert Hall
• Ticket Price (RMB):
40, 30 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Drama "I Si Do Ra"
• Date:
15th October, 2012 19:30
• Venue:
1933 Old Millfun - Micro
Theater
• Ticket Price (RMB):
80 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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New Music for Tiankong Chorus by
Tiankong Chorus
• Date:
16th October,2012 19:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Concert Hall
• Ticket Price (RMB):
280, 180, 120, 80 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Concert Portrait of Harrison Birtwistle
by Ensemble Insomnio
• Date:
18th October,2012 10:00
• Venue:
He Luting Concert Hall
• Ticket Price (RMB):
50, 30, 20 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Opera La Bohème
• Date:
19th October ,2012 19:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Grand Theatre Lyric Theatre
• Ticket Price (RMB):
680, 480, 280, 240, 160 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Drama "The Village"
• Date:
20th October, 2012 19:15
• Venue:
Shanghai Oriental Art
Center - Opera Hall
• Ticket Price (RMB):
1280, 880, 680 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Drama "Once Up on A Time...2"
• Date:
23rd October,2012 19:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Dramatic Arts
Center - Studio D6
• Ticket Price (RMB):
180, 150, 120 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Drama "Das Kapital"
• Date:
24th October ,2012 19:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Dramatic Arts
Center - Arts Theatre
• Ticket Price (RMB):
280, 200, 150, 100 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Concert by Terri Lyne Carrington
• Date:
26th October ,2012 20:00
• Venue:
Shanghai Centre Theatre
• Ticket Price (RMB):
800, 600, 400, 200 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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Drama "A Deep Love Without Passion "
• Date:
30th October ,2012 19:30
• Venue:
Shanghai Dramatic Arts
Center - Drama Salon
• Ticket Price (RMB):
200, 180, 150, 120 Yuan
• Booking Office:
No. 272 Fengxian Road
• Booking Hotline:
62172426, 62173055
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