改编自列夫·托尔斯泰的旷世巨著，音乐剧《安娜·卡列尼娜》是一部壮观、惊心动魄、情感丰富，且使用了多种高科技创作而成的作品。

故事发生在19世纪末的俄罗斯。潇洒的贵族阿列克谢·渥伦斯基伯爵遇到了一位有影响力的政府官员的年轻迷人的妻子安娜·卡列尼娜。短暂的见面后，两人相互倾心。对于两人来说，这段关系是他们第一次感受到真爱，如此强烈，以至于绝望的安娜选择打破上流社会的惯例，留下她在圣彼得堡的丈夫和儿子，与渥伦斯基一起逃离俄罗斯贵族社会的光鲜亮丽与奢华。但爱情童话很快就结束了，命运考验着他们的感情。

这部音乐剧捕捉了列夫·托尔斯泰伟大小说中微妙的心理和情感深度。音乐剧中的人物在压倒性的、有争议的情感中挣扎——爱与背叛、激情与责任、希望与绝望。尽管故事发生已经过去了近一个半世纪，但展现在观众面前的事件仍以其永恒的品质扣人心弦、感人至深。
 
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自音乐剧《安娜 ·卡列尼娜》登上舞台以来，该作品一直备受称赞。这部作品 2016 年获得了俄罗斯“最佳音乐剧”类别中的“本季热门”、“观众之星”等奖项，还曾被Ticketland.ru 票务公司评为年度最受欢迎的演出。
 
音乐剧《安娜·卡列尼娜》吸引了成千上万热情的观众。俄罗斯演员精湛的表演和利用尖端技术制作的这部作品也受到了国际社会的关注。《安娜·卡列尼娜》是俄罗斯史上第一部获得授权，在海外复刻制作的音乐剧。2018年，这部音乐剧被拍成电影并在全球放映，这在俄罗斯音乐剧史上也是非比寻常的：一部俄罗斯原创的舞台作品首次被放映。
 
音乐剧《安娜·卡列尼娜》的剧本由俄罗斯著名诗人、剧作家尤利·金创作，他曾创作数十首流行歌曲。音乐由罗曼·伊格纳季耶夫创作，《安娜·卡列尼娜》是他与莫斯科轻歌剧院的第三次合作。导演阿丽娜·切维克在音乐剧和轻歌剧领域取得了多年的成功。这部音乐剧的编舞是伊琳娜·科尔涅耶娃，她是一位舞蹈领域涉足广泛的芭蕾舞大师。布景和灯光设计由圣彼得堡剧院设计师维亚切斯拉夫·奥库涅夫和格列勃·费里施金斯基提供，他们因与世界著名的斯卡拉歌剧院、大都会歌剧院以及马林斯基剧院和莫斯科大剧院的合作而闻名。化妆和发型由曾与全球顶级美容杂志和时装秀合作的化妆和发型师安德烈·德雷金设计。
 
九个移动屏幕、重达数吨的金属结构和几百个照明装置在舞台上组合在一起，打造出真实的场景，让观众身临其境。复杂的系统操纵一组组视频屏幕不断变化、移动，在充满灯光和音乐的场地中创造出令人印象深刻的“多媒体拼图”。它将观众吸引到音乐剧的情节中，观众仿佛置身其中，从19世纪的歌剧院到溜冰场、豪华的宫殿到夏季的乡村。当然，该剧最大的特色应为著名的火车场景，该元素不仅贯穿全剧，更在结局前，为观众带来令人难以置信的壮观和戏剧性的高潮。

Since its first night, the musical Anna Karenina has never failed to sell out. The production has earned such awards as “The hit of the season” and “Theatre-goer’s Star” in the category “The best musical show”. It has been awarded a special prize by the ticket selling company Ticketland.ru as the most popular show of the year.

The musical Anna Karenina has been seen by hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic patrons. The production created by a team of Russian actors, who relied on the cutting-edge production technologies, also sparks great international interest. Anna Karenina  has become the first Russian musical to be produced under a license abroad, in South Korea. In 2018 a movie version of the musical was created. That was an extraordinary event in national musical history: an original Russian theatre production was screened for the first time.

Anna Karenina’s libretto was penned by Yuliy Kim, a famous Russian poet and playwright who has written dozens of popular songs. The music was composed by Roman Ignatyev for whom Anna Karenina is his third collaboration with the Moscow Operetta Theatre. Director Alina Chevik has worked successfully in the genres of musical and operetta for many years. The choreographer of the musical is Irina Korneeva, a ballet master with a wide dancing range. Anna Karenina’s musical director is Konstantin Khvatynets, a guest conductor at Moscow leading musical theatres and chief conductor of the Moscow Operetta Theatre. Set and lighting design were provided by Saint Petersburg theatre designers Vyacheslav Okunev and Gleb Filshtinsky known for their collaboration with worldwide famous La Scala and Metropolitan Opera as well as the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi Theatres. Makeup and hairstyles were created by makeup and hair artist Andrey Drykin who has worked with top beauty magazines and fashion shows worldwide. 
The story takes place in the late 19th century Russia. Count Alexey Vronsky, a dashing aristocrat, meets Anna Karenina, the young and charming wife of an influential government official. After a brief meeting, the two become infatuated with each other. For both, this relationship turns out to be the first true love — so strong, in fact, that desperate Anna chooses to break the upper class conventions and elope with Vronsky leaving her husband and son in St. Petersburg. But the love fairytale ends shortly, as fate puts their feelings to the test.

The musical captures the subtle psychology and emotional depth of the great novel by Leo Tolstoy. The story of a dramatic relationship between a married woman and a young military man found an instant response in the hearts of the writer’s contemporary readership, but today Anna Karenina remains just as meaningful providing a truly timeless portrait of society.

Nine moving screens, a multi-ton metal construction and more than 300 of lighting units combine onstage to produce a true set of the future with large-as-life spectator immersion. A sophisticated computer system navigates a set of moving video screens creating an impressive “multimedia puzzle” in a venue filled with light and music. It draws audiences inside the musical’s action turning spectators into invisible presences traveling from a 19th century opera house to a skating rink, or a luxurious palace, or a summertime countryside. Certainly, the show features the famous train scene, as an incredibly spectacular and dramatic climax sweeps over the audience before the finale.

Holland Baroque likes to share the stage with playful, inspiring musicians. Composer and improviser Wu Wei is such a musician. Wu Wei can do everything with the sheng, the Chinese mouth organ that represents three thousand years of Chinese music culture and that is a miracle of harmony, melody and rhythmic possibilities.
 
Why does a baroque orchestra meet a sheng player?

The actual encounter of orchestra and musical guest always takes place in the field of a shared sound world. Holland Baroque and Wu Wei connect the beautiful sheng sound with baroque music and hear that old traditions and exotic instruments can produce new stories.

The result is a concert of new and old compositions that tells one thing in particular: Music is alive and continues to be so when creative spirits leap upon music that still has a huge power of expressiveness today. Whether that is music from Western or Eastern cultures, composed or improvised music is no longer relevant.
 
"Sheng means hope and hope is life," says Wu Wei. He is a modern musician who carries out an ancient tradition. It’s no coincidence that on Wu Wei’s sheng case a sticker is stuck with his motto: "Gutes bleibt, neues kommt”. A Motto that Holland Baroque can relate to very wel. Cherish what needs to be preserved and be open to new sounds. Because Holland Baroque thinks old music does not exist. The music is only finished when you play it.
 
 'Giving old notes new life, that is the holy grail.' T. Steenbrink, Holland Baroque

Vladimir Malakhov is one of the most well-known and artistic dignitaries in today's dancing world. When the Staatsballett Berlin was founded in 2004, he became the artistic director and served as the chief solo dancer at the same time. Under the guidance of Malakhov, the dance troupe cultivated world-class dancers such as Polina Semionova, Iana Salenko, and Shoko Nakamura. Malakhov also directed a series of famous plays for Staatsballett Berlin including Sleeping Beauty, The Dancer, and Cinderella, etc. making the Staatsballett Berlin the largest and strongest ballet troupe and the largest art group in Germany. Malakhov is now Honorary Chairman of the European Dance Association, and was recognized as "century dancer" by media. Malakhov's repertoires include a wide range of classical ballet and modern dance pieces. His beautiful performance won good reputation all over the world.

Dancers Overview
² Century Dancer - Vladimir Malakhov
² Chief Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Iana Salenko
² Chief Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Marian Walter
² Solo Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Soraya Bruno
² Solo Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Martin Buczkó
² Chief Dancer of Semperoper Ballet - Anna Merkulova
² Chief Dancer of Semperoper Ballet - Istvan Simon
² Chief Dancer of Paris of Ballet - Dorothee Gilbert
² Chief Dancer of Paris of Ballet - Alessio Carbone
 

Li Biao

 Abaut Italian ballet prince Roberto Bolle 

Roberto Bolle  is an Italian danseur. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Bolle also dances regularly as a guest artist with the world’s leading companies, including The Royal Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet.

In December 2005 at Covent Garden Opera House in London he performed Frederick Ashton’s production of Sylvia, broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day.

Bolle danced at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin where he performed a solo created for him by Enzo Cosimi. The ceremony was broadcast worldwide and seen by 2.5 billion people.

In 2007 he performed for the first time with ABT as a guest artist, on the occasion of Alessandra Ferri’s farewell performance.

For the 2009 spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, Bolle performed as a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre: the first time that a male Italian dancer joined the company as a principal. The "Dance Listings" in the New York Times on 26 June 2009 described Bolle as "utterly gorgeous (in both looks and dance)." Bolle’s Spring 2010 American Ballet Theatre performances include The Lady of the Camellias, Swan Lake, La Bayadère, and Romeo and Juliet.

- The most German style of play, the most professional playing enthusiasm
- Gorgeous dignified modern and unique style of art
- It’s called the sound of nature by the masters
- The pillar orchestra in German classical music industry 

Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 in East Berlin, Germany, formerly known as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, which is a strong competitor against Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in West Berlin. In 2006, the orchestra was renamed as Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Now, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin is the sister orchestra with Berlin Chamber Orchestra, an important art group in Germany and one of the major orchestras in Berlin. Konzerthausorchester Berlin has been a regional symphony orchestra leader In the last 50 years, which holds up to 220 fixed concerts each year, creating the annual concert records in Germany.

Historically, the orchestra has had long-term cooperation with famous German conductor Kurt Sanderling and Israeli conductor Eliahu Inbal. Many world-class music stars including Domingo, Pavarotti and Carreras have hold outdoor concert with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, which achieved great repercussions. Konzerthausorchester Berlin is often based in the Konzerthaus Berlin, one of Germany's top art galleries designed by the famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Guest Conductor - Lawrence Foster

Lawrence Foster, a world-famous conducting master, was born in San Francisco in 1941 and became a conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, also an assistant to Zubin Mehta of the San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra. In nearly 50 years of conducting career, he has performed with many world-class orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Houston Symphony, and the National Orchestra of Monte-Carlo. Since September 2012, Foster has been the music director of Opéra municipal de Marseille.

Soloist - Ning Feng

Ning Feng was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China in 1981, studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music since 1992, and was admitted to the Royal College of Music in London with full scholarship to follow Professor Hu Kun, a famous Chinese violinist and educator. In early 1999, Ning Feng was fortunate to perform in the Bach Works master class in front of Yehudi Menuhin, and was fully affirmed and appreciated. Meinuin also wrote a recommendation letter for Ning Feng before his death, praising his musical talent and bright future. At the end of Ning Feng’s studies in 2003, he became the first student who graduated with full marks in the nearly two hundread-year history of the Royal College of Music. After that, Ning Feng was admitted to the Hochschule fuer Musik "HannsEisler" Berlin.

2018 Fall, Wuhan - Shanghai - Jinan - Weifang - Beijing

 Tour schedule：
July 3, 2018 National Center of Performing Arts
July 4, 2018 Shanghai Grand Theatre
July 5, 2018 Shenzhen Concert Hall
July 6, 2018 Zhuhai Huafa&cpaa Grand Theatre

They come from the most prestigious Berliner Philharmoniker;
They amazed Karajan in their first concert;
They play the Beatles as well as they play Bach;
They are the most dreamed-of among cello ensembles;
They are the most welcomed chamber orchestra;
They are “The 12 Cellists of Berlin Philharmonic”.

 

In 2018, Guangzhou Opera House cross over with Impulse Arts & Music, to co-produce the original opera Marco Polo. The creative team was comprised of “top stars” in the opera production industry, including director Kasper Holton from London’s Royal Opera House, the stage master of closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics Luke Halls, the experienced executive director Amy Lane, the light designer Bruno Poet and the costume and settings designer Emma Ryott, etc, with whom the highest quality original opera was brought to the audience!

Italian traveler Marco Polo is a man who’s young and promising, knowledgeable and brave, wise and with broad vision. While travelling with his father toward east, Marco Polo’s capabilities were recognized and appreciated by Kublai Khan. Marco hence undertook many important missions and demonstrated extraordinary courage and wisdom in many critical moments. Inspired by the rich, profound and brilliant oriental civilization as well as the tragic fates of Wen Tianxiang, Chuanyun, Liuniang and other Chinese people, after returning to Venice, under the threat of death, Marco Polo completed The Travels of Marco Polo in cooperation with his inmate. The book opened a new horizon for the Western world to understand the East and China, which somehow triggered the great discoveries by Columbus and others.

The story of Marco Polo means a start of the interaction between eastern and western culture to some extend. An opera wrote and produced based on Marco Polo’s story is a re-production of the classics, further strengthen the communication between eastern and western culture and call for friendship cherished.
 
The opera Marco Polo was on the stage in Guangzhou Opera House in May 4-6, 2018.
Also performed in Beijing Tianqiao Art Center on May 16, 18, 19, 2018.

 Tour schedule：March, 2018
March 14, 2018 NCPA
March 15, 2018 Tianjin Grand Theatre
March 16, 2018 Shandong Grand Theatre
March 17, 2018 Shanghai Grand Theatre
March 20, 2018 Hong Kong Art Festival

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Danish: DR SymfoniOrkestret; English abbreviation "DNSO"), is a Danish orchestra based in Copenhagen. The DNSO is the principal orchestra of DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation). The DRSO is based at the Copenhagen Concert Hall.

The first conductor to have the formal title of principal conductor with the orchestra was Herbert Blomstedt, from 1967 to 1977. His recording work with the orchestra included recordings of the orchestral works of Carl Nielsen.

Past principal guest conductors of the DRSO besides Dausgaard have included Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Schønwandt, and Dmitri Kitaenko.

In February 2011, the DNSO announced the appointment of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos as its next principal conductor, as of the 2012-2013 season, with an initial contract of 3 years through 2015.On 4 June 2014, Frühbeck de Burgos resigned as chief conductor of the orchestra, with immediate effect, in parallel with his retirement from conducting, because of health problems.He died just one week later. In August 2014, the orchestra announced the appointment of Fabio Luisi as its next principal conductor, effective in 2017, with an initial contract through 2020.
 

The orchestra has recorded commercially for such labels as DaCapo and Chandos, including music of Danish composers such as August Enna,Niels Gade,Rued Langgaard,and Per Nørgård.The orchestra has also commercially recorded such composers as Johannes Brahms.

 

Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia is not only the cultural treasure in Novosibirsk, but also the pride of the Russia. The classical music critics, the musicians, and the audience around the world think it is one of Russia’s top bands. In 2012, the magazine Classical Music commented it as the best orchestra band in Russia. Moscow State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra together are Russia’s three trump symphony orchestra.

Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia was founded in 1956 by Arnold Kats, a musician who was honored of “Former Soviet Artist of People” and “Russian Federation National Award”. The orchestra has toured to many places, including Russia, Europe and often been the guest in different international music festivals. Until now, the orchestra has performed more than 5000 times with all kinds of programmes and stylish performance, from the early Baroque to the modern era works are covered. They has a pure and unique interpretation and understanding especially in Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, let Hermanov, Rimsky - Korsakov, Scriabin, Shosta Ke Weiqi, Prokofiev and so on.

At the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia joined hands with renowned conductor Li Biao and the young piano soloist Wan Jieni, to present New Year's Eve Music Night for audience across the country, which gained high praise and warm welcome from the audience.


”One Belt One Road” the flaming Russian New Year’s Eve
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• 2017.12.29 New Tshinghua Hall
• 2017.12.30 Shandong Grand Theatre
• 2017.12.31 Yantai Grand Theatre
• 2018.01.01 Suzhou Culture and Arts Centre
• 2018.01.02 National Centre for the Performing Arts

Date and Venue
Oct 28^th, 2017  Beijing NCPA
Oct 29^th, 2017  Tianjin Grand Theatre
Oct 30^th, 2017  Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center
Oct 31^st, 2017  Shanghai Music Square in Huangpu District
Nov 01^st, 2017  Hefei Grand Theatre
Nov 02^nd, 2017  Ningbo Grand Theatre
Nov 03^rd, 2017  Jiangsu Grand Theatre
Nov 04^th, 2017  Jiangsu Changzhou Phoenix Valley Grand Theater
Nov 05^th, 2017  Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Music Hall

Percussion Master - Li Biao

Li Biao, one of the few outstanding solo percussionists in the recent international music stage, win the world acclaim as an exceptional solo percussionist in the contemporary era by virtue of his extraordinary musicality of the percussion instruments as well as his unique demeanor.

Born in Nanking, China, Li Biao began his musical studies at five years old. In 1982 he entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing to study percussion. In 1988, he was selected by the Chinese government as the first percussionist to study in Moscow at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Learning from V. Sniegerew, Li Biao graduated with a master degree of first honor. After winning the DAAD scholarship, Li continued his music education at the Munich Conservatory of Music in Germany and graduated with a Master Diploma. He ever attained rewards in many international prestigious competitions during his pupillage, such as the first Debrecen Percussion Competition, he became the first Chinese, who won the international percussion competition.

As a talented soloist, Li is competent in performing an extensive range of musical work. Li Biao gave a great number of solo recitals during various music festivals, cooperated with renowned orchestras and chamber ensemblesincluding the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphoniker, the Verona Opera, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the MengPei Column's Opera, the Franz List Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Symphony Orchestra, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra,the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and many others around the world, working with leading conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Christoph Eschenbach, LawrenceF oster, Jonathan Nott, just to name a few.Li has performed his percussion pieces in more than 70 countries.

Performing percussion concerto repeatedly at “Pay Attention to Classical Music” - the most influential European classical music opinion program, recorded his percussion albums with renowned labels such as EMI and Teldec. He is the professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 2003 and HochschulefürMusik “Hanns-Eisler” in Berlin 2006. He is the first Asian percussionist who was offered the title of professor of the prestigious music institute in the world. Year 2015 is Li Biao Percussion Group’s 10^th anniversary, the group signed with Sony and issued the album of The Best of 10 Years, which included the most classic pieces of music during the ten years.

In 2008, Li Biao and his percussion group were invited to perform at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and 2009. Li Biao led his percussion group to hold a series of concerts in 12 cities in China. From April to May 2009, Li Biao delivered 32 concerts on a trans-era tour of eight European countries. In 2014, Li Biao and his percussion group traveled to the South America, and performed for three weeks. This tour visited a few famous opera houses in South America, which gained high praise from the passionate audience in South America.

In 2010, Li Biao was invited as Music Director of the Mercedes-Benz International Music Festival and the International Percussion Festival at the China National Centre for the Performance Arts. Since 2014, Li Biao has been the art director of China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater Symphony Orchestra.

Li Biao Percussion Group

Li Biao Percussion Group was established in 205 with members are high talented musicians. As a actively percussion performing group in the world, they have taken part in many famous music festivals and activities. The programme they play are stylish and creative. Some of their original music include nearly 100 pieces of instruments, weighted nearly 5 tons, which makes their performance unique and fantastic.

An European press has ever described their performance as a “multi-feelings music tour”. Except their busy schedule in Europe, the group also traveled to 12 cities in China in 2008 and 2009 , 7 countries in South America in 2014, under the support of Mercedes-Benz. They also performed excellently in the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games.

Since their establishment, Li Biao Percussion Group has recorded a few CDs for EMI and Sony, a few documentary about the group for CCTV and German TV Channel 2. They played hundreds of concerts around the world and created nearly 100 percussion work.

 Date /Time：10－15 Aug 2017

18 top-notch singers, one of the most favored A Cappella nordic choirs
Choice of Danish National concerts, recipient of ECHO KLASSIK
“20 seconds ... after which all I could say was 'Hoorah!' And I went on saying it, interspersed every now and again with 'Wow!'... This is some of the most beautiful and moving choral singing I have ever heard.”

 About the Danish National Vocal Ensemble：
18 of Denmark's best singers make up this internationally-renowned choir. The Danish National Vocal Ensemble's sound is transparent, bright and pure - precision combined with a powerful dynamic range. It is a world of sonority that demonstrates the essence of the much-admired Nordic choral style.
The Danish National Vocal Ensemble's wide repertoire covers all aspects of choral singing, all the way from very recently written works to 500-year-old Renaissance music.The choir has also received invitations from renowned ensembles every season, including the Baroque orchestra Concerto Copenhagen and foreign orchestras like the Radio Symphony Orchestra from Hamburg, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Bergen Philharmonic. The choir is also always one of the first choices for national concerts. Besides collaborating with top-notch symphonic orchestras, the choir is also famous as one of the best cappella concert performers given that all members have their own unique and impeccable precision and dynamics. In 2012, the choir became recipient of ECHO KLASSIK with the work Nightingales in cooperation with Michala Petri.

Date: 21st - 23rd July, 2017 

As the most representing German opera of Mozart, "The Magic Flute" is often on show in theatres all over the world. Compared to the classical version, the version created by Komische Oper Berlin and British Theatre Group 1927 is creative and attractive. "We invited the British Theatre Group 1927 to jointly produce the opera was because of their imaginative thoughts matched the opera and superrealism so well". Therefore, with two years production, "The Magic Flute" in animation with the supporter of new media technology has been heritated together with the old story elements and music spirits.

VLADIMIR MALAKHOV is a world famous ballet dancer and is considered to be the most important dancer of his generation. He was the Intendant of the Staatsballett Berlin and is also working as a choreographer. His choreographies were shown and presented all over the world. 
In 2004, he was appointed director of the Berlin State Ballet.In 2005, he presented his choreography of "Sleeping Beauty" at Deutsche Oper Berlin. His choreography for the Berlin State Ballet "La Peri" celebrated its premiere in February 2010.
Vladimir Malakhov is an honorary citizen of the city of Kiev and honorary professor of the Ukrainian Academy of Choreography. As a sought-after artist, Vladimir Malakhov still occurs and performs worldwide and regularly at major events with ballet's leading ballet companies.



Tour Schedule

4.29-30  National Centre for Peforming Arts
5.1         Jiangsu Centre for Peforming Arts
5.2         Tianjin Grand  Theatre
5.4-5      Shanghai Oriental Art Center

Date/Time: 5 July - 8 July

About the program:

"A supremely well-rounded play that takes the grotesque seriously and its inherent brutality lightly. The whole evening is interwoven with songs by the pop diva (Lady Gaga), which, in new arrangements by Thies Mynther, have an astonishingly brittle soulfulness that suit the old lady surprisingly well. This also has to do with the fact that Kraft emphasises the enduring theme of betrayal in love, and unlike other directors before him, avoids weighing down this ballad about the (financial) corruptibility of humans with political overtones. Nonetheless, the abyss into which society has fallen is of course glaringly obvious."

"I want your love / And I want your revenge / You and me could write a bad romance" – Up until now, you never would have imagined that the songs by Lady Gaga go so well with Friedrich Dürrenmatt. But the Deutsches Theater Berlin, which this season has a mission to seek out the pop aspects of classic plays (recently, for example, in Stefan Pucher’s version of Elektra by Sophocles), emphasises the unexpected. Brilliantly, dazzlingly: voilà, The Visit of Lady Güllen." Each year the Deutsches Theater takes its productions on tour and performs at festivals in places like New York, South America, Japan, and across Europe. A series of television broadcasts of DT productions and frequent invitations to Berlin’s prestigious Theatertreffen festival testify to the theatre’s continuing success. In an annual poll conducted by influential German theatre magazine Theater heute, critics voted the DT “Theatre of the Year” in 2005 and 2008.

Date: 28^th, June, 2017 - 1^st, July, 2017

The Staatstheater Nürnberg again presents the Hitchcock classical work and has gained high praise:
 
“Within such a comedy, the actors and actresses were always in tense, they changed clothes, even the characters so fast that you must be shocked. Though there were differences between the drama and the movie, but the crazy actions and audio-visual feast made you enjoy and won’t regret to see.
The stage setting by Stefan Brandt Meyers did a really good job that the actors and actresses could easily change the scene themselves.
And of course the actors were the best, each of them played more than one character, but they changed so smoothly and flawlessly.”
Staatstheater Nürnberg
Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the largest complex theater in Germany, which has shows on music, dancing and drama frequently. It has opera hall, drama hall, chamber music stage and four experimental theaters.
It averages 800 shows per season, accepts more than 300,000 visitors. On 16^th, September, 2003, the theater became a national theater. 

Date and Venue: 21^st June, 2017 - 25^th June, 2017, NCPA

A battle between the bottom line and the principle of human nature
A tension that has been sparked by discussing contradictions on court
The panic caused by "terror" is truly reflected from everyone's struggles and choices, every audience would be the judges, controlling the life sentences of the pilot who save 70,000 people by losing 164 lives
Germany's hottest literary star Ferdinand von Schirach's hit drama
The great interaction between the stage and audience made the show intense but exciting

Writer: Ferdinand von Schirach
Ferdinand von Schirach (born 1964 in Munich) is a German lawyer and writer. He published his first short stories at the age of forty-five. Shortly thereafter he became one of Germany's most successful authors. His books, which have been translated into more than 35 languages, have sold millions of copies worldwide and have made him "an internationally celebrated star of German literature." “Terror” was first performed in 16 theaters in Germany, it’s detailed story lines and creative interaction gained high common from the media.

Staatstheater Nürnberg
Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the largest complex theater in Germany, which has shows on music, dancing and drama frequently. It has opera hall, drama hall, chamber music stage and four experimental theaters.
It averages 800 shows per season, accepts more than 300,000 visitors. On 16^th, September, 2003, the theater became a national theater. 

Date/Time: 10.May 2017

About Artemis Danza:


About Founder & Art Director of Artemis Danza:

Monica Casadei 

 Tour schedule： 9－15 July, 2017


They’re treasure of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Their unparelled dynamics and exquisite tone has earned them the title of “Sound of Chicago”
They are the prodigies that live up to the legendary trumpet soloist Adolph Herseth and Tuba master Arnold Jacobs

 About the Chicago Sound-Brass Quintet：

As is known, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of the top-notch orchestras today and has received tutorial guidance from the most renowned artistic directors: Maestro Bernard Haitink, PierreBoulez and Riccardo mutti.
And from such an extraordinary orchestra, first trumpet Christopher Martin, Tuba player Gene Pokorny, second French horn player James Smelser, trombone player Michael Mulcahy， trumpet player Tage Larsen formed the well-known Brass Quintet of Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has always lived up to the reputation as “Sound of Chicago”. Compared to other celebrated orchestras in the world, CSO can always stand out because of their unparelled dynamics. They are known to always deliver an incredible tone no matter the volume.
The legendary Adolph Herseth and Arnold Jacobs have been idols for numerous music lovers. And Now the members of the brass quintet continued to write on the their legacy and are able to inteprete classical music in an inspiring new way wit various musical elements merged into it. In the year of 2011, the brass quintet first came to China and toured from NCPA in Beijing, the Oriental Art center in Shanghai, to the Xinghai Music Hall in Guangzhou.

The Théâtre NONO, now named Théâtre des Calanques, was founded in 2007 by Serge Noyelle and Marion Coutris. After 23 years of running the Théâtre du Chatillon in Paris, they moved to Marseille and introduced the public in the south of France to their highly visual work that creates a connection between opera, dance and circus. In 2017, their Théâtre des Calanques was given a permanent place, located on the edge of the Les Calanques National Park in a brand new wooden theatre focused on the balance between culture and nature. Inspired by Sense of Place and the Oerol festival where they created several performances. This is where their love for the theatre landscape grew and they now want to make the connection between culture and nature through landscape projects and tell the story of their landscape. This in the Parc national des Calanques and the Parc naturel régional des Alpilles.

Serge Noyelle: director and stage designer, was known in France because of the direction of Mcbeth in 1993; Marion Coutris: director, actress, writer, her work Entremets-Entremots successfully performed 300+ shows in France and Europe, and was invited to Beijing in 2012.

The company toured Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, Entremets-Entremots a few times in China and have gained high praise from the audience. 

In 2023, the company was invited again by the Laoshe Theater Festival to perform their representative work Waiting for Godot, and the brandly new show Le Tartuffe in Beijing. The two shows also met the audience in Shanghai and Chengdu as well.

改编自列夫·托尔斯泰的旷世巨著，音乐剧《安娜·卡列尼娜》是一部壮观、惊心动魄、情感丰富，且使用了多种高科技创作而成的作品。

故事发生在19世纪末的俄罗斯。潇洒的贵族阿列克谢·渥伦斯基伯爵遇到了一位有影响力的政府官员的年轻迷人的妻子安娜·卡列尼娜。短暂的见面后，两人相互倾心。对于两人来说，这段关系是他们第一次感受到真爱，如此强烈，以至于绝望的安娜选择打破上流社会的惯例，留下她在圣彼得堡的丈夫和儿子，与渥伦斯基一起逃离俄罗斯贵族社会的光鲜亮丽与奢华。但爱情童话很快就结束了，命运考验着他们的感情。

这部音乐剧捕捉了列夫·托尔斯泰伟大小说中微妙的心理和情感深度。音乐剧中的人物在压倒性的、有争议的情感中挣扎——爱与背叛、激情与责任、希望与绝望。尽管故事发生已经过去了近一个半世纪，但展现在观众面前的事件仍以其永恒的品质扣人心弦、感人至深。
 
剧目亮点

自音乐剧《安娜 ·卡列尼娜》登上舞台以来，该作品一直备受称赞。这部作品 2016 年获得了俄罗斯“最佳音乐剧”类别中的“本季热门”、“观众之星”等奖项，还曾被Ticketland.ru 票务公司评为年度最受欢迎的演出。
 
音乐剧《安娜·卡列尼娜》吸引了成千上万热情的观众。俄罗斯演员精湛的表演和利用尖端技术制作的这部作品也受到了国际社会的关注。《安娜·卡列尼娜》是俄罗斯史上第一部获得授权，在海外复刻制作的音乐剧。2018年，这部音乐剧被拍成电影并在全球放映，这在俄罗斯音乐剧史上也是非比寻常的：一部俄罗斯原创的舞台作品首次被放映。
 
音乐剧《安娜·卡列尼娜》的剧本由俄罗斯著名诗人、剧作家尤利·金创作，他曾创作数十首流行歌曲。音乐由罗曼·伊格纳季耶夫创作，《安娜·卡列尼娜》是他与莫斯科轻歌剧院的第三次合作。导演阿丽娜·切维克在音乐剧和轻歌剧领域取得了多年的成功。这部音乐剧的编舞是伊琳娜·科尔涅耶娃，她是一位舞蹈领域涉足广泛的芭蕾舞大师。布景和灯光设计由圣彼得堡剧院设计师维亚切斯拉夫·奥库涅夫和格列勃·费里施金斯基提供，他们因与世界著名的斯卡拉歌剧院、大都会歌剧院以及马林斯基剧院和莫斯科大剧院的合作而闻名。化妆和发型由曾与全球顶级美容杂志和时装秀合作的化妆和发型师安德烈·德雷金设计。
 
九个移动屏幕、重达数吨的金属结构和几百个照明装置在舞台上组合在一起，打造出真实的场景，让观众身临其境。复杂的系统操纵一组组视频屏幕不断变化、移动，在充满灯光和音乐的场地中创造出令人印象深刻的“多媒体拼图”。它将观众吸引到音乐剧的情节中，观众仿佛置身其中，从19世纪的歌剧院到溜冰场、豪华的宫殿到夏季的乡村。当然，该剧最大的特色应为著名的火车场景，该元素不仅贯穿全剧，更在结局前，为观众带来令人难以置信的壮观和戏剧性的高潮。

Since its first night, the musical Anna Karenina has never failed to sell out. The production has earned such awards as “The hit of the season” and “Theatre-goer’s Star” in the category “The best musical show”. It has been awarded a special prize by the ticket selling company Ticketland.ru as the most popular show of the year.

The musical Anna Karenina has been seen by hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic patrons. The production created by a team of Russian actors, who relied on the cutting-edge production technologies, also sparks great international interest. Anna Karenina  has become the first Russian musical to be produced under a license abroad, in South Korea. In 2018 a movie version of the musical was created. That was an extraordinary event in national musical history: an original Russian theatre production was screened for the first time.

Anna Karenina’s libretto was penned by Yuliy Kim, a famous Russian poet and playwright who has written dozens of popular songs. The music was composed by Roman Ignatyev for whom Anna Karenina is his third collaboration with the Moscow Operetta Theatre. Director Alina Chevik has worked successfully in the genres of musical and operetta for many years. The choreographer of the musical is Irina Korneeva, a ballet master with a wide dancing range. Anna Karenina’s musical director is Konstantin Khvatynets, a guest conductor at Moscow leading musical theatres and chief conductor of the Moscow Operetta Theatre. Set and lighting design were provided by Saint Petersburg theatre designers Vyacheslav Okunev and Gleb Filshtinsky known for their collaboration with worldwide famous La Scala and Metropolitan Opera as well as the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi Theatres. Makeup and hairstyles were created by makeup and hair artist Andrey Drykin who has worked with top beauty magazines and fashion shows worldwide. 
The story takes place in the late 19th century Russia. Count Alexey Vronsky, a dashing aristocrat, meets Anna Karenina, the young and charming wife of an influential government official. After a brief meeting, the two become infatuated with each other. For both, this relationship turns out to be the first true love — so strong, in fact, that desperate Anna chooses to break the upper class conventions and elope with Vronsky leaving her husband and son in St. Petersburg. But the love fairytale ends shortly, as fate puts their feelings to the test.

The musical captures the subtle psychology and emotional depth of the great novel by Leo Tolstoy. The story of a dramatic relationship between a married woman and a young military man found an instant response in the hearts of the writer’s contemporary readership, but today Anna Karenina remains just as meaningful providing a truly timeless portrait of society.

Nine moving screens, a multi-ton metal construction and more than 300 of lighting units combine onstage to produce a true set of the future with large-as-life spectator immersion. A sophisticated computer system navigates a set of moving video screens creating an impressive “multimedia puzzle” in a venue filled with light and music. It draws audiences inside the musical’s action turning spectators into invisible presences traveling from a 19th century opera house to a skating rink, or a luxurious palace, or a summertime countryside. Certainly, the show features the famous train scene, as an incredibly spectacular and dramatic climax sweeps over the audience before the finale.

Holland Baroque likes to share the stage with playful, inspiring musicians. Composer and improviser Wu Wei is such a musician. Wu Wei can do everything with the sheng, the Chinese mouth organ that represents three thousand years of Chinese music culture and that is a miracle of harmony, melody and rhythmic possibilities.
 
Why does a baroque orchestra meet a sheng player?

The actual encounter of orchestra and musical guest always takes place in the field of a shared sound world. Holland Baroque and Wu Wei connect the beautiful sheng sound with baroque music and hear that old traditions and exotic instruments can produce new stories.

The result is a concert of new and old compositions that tells one thing in particular: Music is alive and continues to be so when creative spirits leap upon music that still has a huge power of expressiveness today. Whether that is music from Western or Eastern cultures, composed or improvised music is no longer relevant.
 
"Sheng means hope and hope is life," says Wu Wei. He is a modern musician who carries out an ancient tradition. It’s no coincidence that on Wu Wei’s sheng case a sticker is stuck with his motto: "Gutes bleibt, neues kommt”. A Motto that Holland Baroque can relate to very wel. Cherish what needs to be preserved and be open to new sounds. Because Holland Baroque thinks old music does not exist. The music is only finished when you play it.
 
 'Giving old notes new life, that is the holy grail.' T. Steenbrink, Holland Baroque

Vladimir Malakhov is one of the most well-known and artistic dignitaries in today's dancing world. When the Staatsballett Berlin was founded in 2004, he became the artistic director and served as the chief solo dancer at the same time. Under the guidance of Malakhov, the dance troupe cultivated world-class dancers such as Polina Semionova, Iana Salenko, and Shoko Nakamura. Malakhov also directed a series of famous plays for Staatsballett Berlin including Sleeping Beauty, The Dancer, and Cinderella, etc. making the Staatsballett Berlin the largest and strongest ballet troupe and the largest art group in Germany. Malakhov is now Honorary Chairman of the European Dance Association, and was recognized as "century dancer" by media. Malakhov's repertoires include a wide range of classical ballet and modern dance pieces. His beautiful performance won good reputation all over the world.

Dancers Overview
² Century Dancer - Vladimir Malakhov
² Chief Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Iana Salenko
² Chief Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Marian Walter
² Solo Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Soraya Bruno
² Solo Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Martin Buczkó
² Chief Dancer of Semperoper Ballet - Anna Merkulova
² Chief Dancer of Semperoper Ballet - Istvan Simon
² Chief Dancer of Paris of Ballet - Dorothee Gilbert
² Chief Dancer of Paris of Ballet - Alessio Carbone
 

Li Biao

 Abaut Italian ballet prince Roberto Bolle 

Roberto Bolle  is an Italian danseur. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Bolle also dances regularly as a guest artist with the world’s leading companies, including The Royal Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet.

In December 2005 at Covent Garden Opera House in London he performed Frederick Ashton’s production of Sylvia, broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day.

Bolle danced at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin where he performed a solo created for him by Enzo Cosimi. The ceremony was broadcast worldwide and seen by 2.5 billion people.

In 2007 he performed for the first time with ABT as a guest artist, on the occasion of Alessandra Ferri’s farewell performance.

For the 2009 spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, Bolle performed as a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre: the first time that a male Italian dancer joined the company as a principal. The "Dance Listings" in the New York Times on 26 June 2009 described Bolle as "utterly gorgeous (in both looks and dance)." Bolle’s Spring 2010 American Ballet Theatre performances include The Lady of the Camellias, Swan Lake, La Bayadère, and Romeo and Juliet.

- The most German style of play, the most professional playing enthusiasm
- Gorgeous dignified modern and unique style of art
- It’s called the sound of nature by the masters
- The pillar orchestra in German classical music industry 

Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 in East Berlin, Germany, formerly known as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, which is a strong competitor against Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in West Berlin. In 2006, the orchestra was renamed as Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Now, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin is the sister orchestra with Berlin Chamber Orchestra, an important art group in Germany and one of the major orchestras in Berlin. Konzerthausorchester Berlin has been a regional symphony orchestra leader In the last 50 years, which holds up to 220 fixed concerts each year, creating the annual concert records in Germany.

Historically, the orchestra has had long-term cooperation with famous German conductor Kurt Sanderling and Israeli conductor Eliahu Inbal. Many world-class music stars including Domingo, Pavarotti and Carreras have hold outdoor concert with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, which achieved great repercussions. Konzerthausorchester Berlin is often based in the Konzerthaus Berlin, one of Germany's top art galleries designed by the famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Guest Conductor - Lawrence Foster

Lawrence Foster, a world-famous conducting master, was born in San Francisco in 1941 and became a conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, also an assistant to Zubin Mehta of the San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra. In nearly 50 years of conducting career, he has performed with many world-class orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Houston Symphony, and the National Orchestra of Monte-Carlo. Since September 2012, Foster has been the music director of Opéra municipal de Marseille.

Soloist - Ning Feng

Ning Feng was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China in 1981, studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music since 1992, and was admitted to the Royal College of Music in London with full scholarship to follow Professor Hu Kun, a famous Chinese violinist and educator. In early 1999, Ning Feng was fortunate to perform in the Bach Works master class in front of Yehudi Menuhin, and was fully affirmed and appreciated. Meinuin also wrote a recommendation letter for Ning Feng before his death, praising his musical talent and bright future. At the end of Ning Feng’s studies in 2003, he became the first student who graduated with full marks in the nearly two hundread-year history of the Royal College of Music. After that, Ning Feng was admitted to the Hochschule fuer Musik "HannsEisler" Berlin.

2018 Fall, Wuhan - Shanghai - Jinan - Weifang - Beijing

 Tour schedule：
July 3, 2018 National Center of Performing Arts
July 4, 2018 Shanghai Grand Theatre
July 5, 2018 Shenzhen Concert Hall
July 6, 2018 Zhuhai Huafa&cpaa Grand Theatre

They come from the most prestigious Berliner Philharmoniker;
They amazed Karajan in their first concert;
They play the Beatles as well as they play Bach;
They are the most dreamed-of among cello ensembles;
They are the most welcomed chamber orchestra;
They are “The 12 Cellists of Berlin Philharmonic”.

 

In 2018, Guangzhou Opera House cross over with Impulse Arts & Music, to co-produce the original opera Marco Polo. The creative team was comprised of “top stars” in the opera production industry, including director Kasper Holton from London’s Royal Opera House, the stage master of closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics Luke Halls, the experienced executive director Amy Lane, the light designer Bruno Poet and the costume and settings designer Emma Ryott, etc, with whom the highest quality original opera was brought to the audience!

Italian traveler Marco Polo is a man who’s young and promising, knowledgeable and brave, wise and with broad vision. While travelling with his father toward east, Marco Polo’s capabilities were recognized and appreciated by Kublai Khan. Marco hence undertook many important missions and demonstrated extraordinary courage and wisdom in many critical moments. Inspired by the rich, profound and brilliant oriental civilization as well as the tragic fates of Wen Tianxiang, Chuanyun, Liuniang and other Chinese people, after returning to Venice, under the threat of death, Marco Polo completed The Travels of Marco Polo in cooperation with his inmate. The book opened a new horizon for the Western world to understand the East and China, which somehow triggered the great discoveries by Columbus and others.

The story of Marco Polo means a start of the interaction between eastern and western culture to some extend. An opera wrote and produced based on Marco Polo’s story is a re-production of the classics, further strengthen the communication between eastern and western culture and call for friendship cherished.
 
The opera Marco Polo was on the stage in Guangzhou Opera House in May 4-6, 2018.
Also performed in Beijing Tianqiao Art Center on May 16, 18, 19, 2018.

 Tour schedule：March, 2018
March 14, 2018 NCPA
March 15, 2018 Tianjin Grand Theatre
March 16, 2018 Shandong Grand Theatre
March 17, 2018 Shanghai Grand Theatre
March 20, 2018 Hong Kong Art Festival

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Danish: DR SymfoniOrkestret; English abbreviation "DNSO"), is a Danish orchestra based in Copenhagen. The DNSO is the principal orchestra of DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation). The DRSO is based at the Copenhagen Concert Hall.

The first conductor to have the formal title of principal conductor with the orchestra was Herbert Blomstedt, from 1967 to 1977. His recording work with the orchestra included recordings of the orchestral works of Carl Nielsen.

Past principal guest conductors of the DRSO besides Dausgaard have included Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Schønwandt, and Dmitri Kitaenko.

In February 2011, the DNSO announced the appointment of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos as its next principal conductor, as of the 2012-2013 season, with an initial contract of 3 years through 2015.On 4 June 2014, Frühbeck de Burgos resigned as chief conductor of the orchestra, with immediate effect, in parallel with his retirement from conducting, because of health problems.He died just one week later. In August 2014, the orchestra announced the appointment of Fabio Luisi as its next principal conductor, effective in 2017, with an initial contract through 2020.
 

The orchestra has recorded commercially for such labels as DaCapo and Chandos, including music of Danish composers such as August Enna,Niels Gade,Rued Langgaard,and Per Nørgård.The orchestra has also commercially recorded such composers as Johannes Brahms.

 

Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia is not only the cultural treasure in Novosibirsk, but also the pride of the Russia. The classical music critics, the musicians, and the audience around the world think it is one of Russia’s top bands. In 2012, the magazine Classical Music commented it as the best orchestra band in Russia. Moscow State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra together are Russia’s three trump symphony orchestra.

Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia was founded in 1956 by Arnold Kats, a musician who was honored of “Former Soviet Artist of People” and “Russian Federation National Award”. The orchestra has toured to many places, including Russia, Europe and often been the guest in different international music festivals. Until now, the orchestra has performed more than 5000 times with all kinds of programmes and stylish performance, from the early Baroque to the modern era works are covered. They has a pure and unique interpretation and understanding especially in Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, let Hermanov, Rimsky - Korsakov, Scriabin, Shosta Ke Weiqi, Prokofiev and so on.

At the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia joined hands with renowned conductor Li Biao and the young piano soloist Wan Jieni, to present New Year's Eve Music Night for audience across the country, which gained high praise and warm welcome from the audience.


”One Belt One Road” the flaming Russian New Year’s Eve
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• 2017.12.29 New Tshinghua Hall
• 2017.12.30 Shandong Grand Theatre
• 2017.12.31 Yantai Grand Theatre
• 2018.01.01 Suzhou Culture and Arts Centre
• 2018.01.02 National Centre for the Performing Arts

Date and Venue
Oct 28^th, 2017  Beijing NCPA
Oct 29^th, 2017  Tianjin Grand Theatre
Oct 30^th, 2017  Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center
Oct 31^st, 2017  Shanghai Music Square in Huangpu District
Nov 01^st, 2017  Hefei Grand Theatre
Nov 02^nd, 2017  Ningbo Grand Theatre
Nov 03^rd, 2017  Jiangsu Grand Theatre
Nov 04^th, 2017  Jiangsu Changzhou Phoenix Valley Grand Theater
Nov 05^th, 2017  Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Music Hall

Percussion Master - Li Biao

Li Biao, one of the few outstanding solo percussionists in the recent international music stage, win the world acclaim as an exceptional solo percussionist in the contemporary era by virtue of his extraordinary musicality of the percussion instruments as well as his unique demeanor.

Born in Nanking, China, Li Biao began his musical studies at five years old. In 1982 he entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing to study percussion. In 1988, he was selected by the Chinese government as the first percussionist to study in Moscow at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Learning from V. Sniegerew, Li Biao graduated with a master degree of first honor. After winning the DAAD scholarship, Li continued his music education at the Munich Conservatory of Music in Germany and graduated with a Master Diploma. He ever attained rewards in many international prestigious competitions during his pupillage, such as the first Debrecen Percussion Competition, he became the first Chinese, who won the international percussion competition.

As a talented soloist, Li is competent in performing an extensive range of musical work. Li Biao gave a great number of solo recitals during various music festivals, cooperated with renowned orchestras and chamber ensemblesincluding the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphoniker, the Verona Opera, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the MengPei Column's Opera, the Franz List Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Symphony Orchestra, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra,the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and many others around the world, working with leading conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Christoph Eschenbach, LawrenceF oster, Jonathan Nott, just to name a few.Li has performed his percussion pieces in more than 70 countries.

Performing percussion concerto repeatedly at “Pay Attention to Classical Music” - the most influential European classical music opinion program, recorded his percussion albums with renowned labels such as EMI and Teldec. He is the professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 2003 and HochschulefürMusik “Hanns-Eisler” in Berlin 2006. He is the first Asian percussionist who was offered the title of professor of the prestigious music institute in the world. Year 2015 is Li Biao Percussion Group’s 10^th anniversary, the group signed with Sony and issued the album of The Best of 10 Years, which included the most classic pieces of music during the ten years.

In 2008, Li Biao and his percussion group were invited to perform at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and 2009. Li Biao led his percussion group to hold a series of concerts in 12 cities in China. From April to May 2009, Li Biao delivered 32 concerts on a trans-era tour of eight European countries. In 2014, Li Biao and his percussion group traveled to the South America, and performed for three weeks. This tour visited a few famous opera houses in South America, which gained high praise from the passionate audience in South America.

In 2010, Li Biao was invited as Music Director of the Mercedes-Benz International Music Festival and the International Percussion Festival at the China National Centre for the Performance Arts. Since 2014, Li Biao has been the art director of China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater Symphony Orchestra.

Li Biao Percussion Group

Li Biao Percussion Group was established in 205 with members are high talented musicians. As a actively percussion performing group in the world, they have taken part in many famous music festivals and activities. The programme they play are stylish and creative. Some of their original music include nearly 100 pieces of instruments, weighted nearly 5 tons, which makes their performance unique and fantastic.

An European press has ever described their performance as a “multi-feelings music tour”. Except their busy schedule in Europe, the group also traveled to 12 cities in China in 2008 and 2009 , 7 countries in South America in 2014, under the support of Mercedes-Benz. They also performed excellently in the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games.

Since their establishment, Li Biao Percussion Group has recorded a few CDs for EMI and Sony, a few documentary about the group for CCTV and German TV Channel 2. They played hundreds of concerts around the world and created nearly 100 percussion work.

 Date /Time：10－15 Aug 2017

18 top-notch singers, one of the most favored A Cappella nordic choirs
Choice of Danish National concerts, recipient of ECHO KLASSIK
“20 seconds ... after which all I could say was 'Hoorah!' And I went on saying it, interspersed every now and again with 'Wow!'... This is some of the most beautiful and moving choral singing I have ever heard.”

 About the Danish National Vocal Ensemble：
18 of Denmark's best singers make up this internationally-renowned choir. The Danish National Vocal Ensemble's sound is transparent, bright and pure - precision combined with a powerful dynamic range. It is a world of sonority that demonstrates the essence of the much-admired Nordic choral style.
The Danish National Vocal Ensemble's wide repertoire covers all aspects of choral singing, all the way from very recently written works to 500-year-old Renaissance music.The choir has also received invitations from renowned ensembles every season, including the Baroque orchestra Concerto Copenhagen and foreign orchestras like the Radio Symphony Orchestra from Hamburg, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Bergen Philharmonic. The choir is also always one of the first choices for national concerts. Besides collaborating with top-notch symphonic orchestras, the choir is also famous as one of the best cappella concert performers given that all members have their own unique and impeccable precision and dynamics. In 2012, the choir became recipient of ECHO KLASSIK with the work Nightingales in cooperation with Michala Petri.

Date: 21st - 23rd July, 2017 

As the most representing German opera of Mozart, "The Magic Flute" is often on show in theatres all over the world. Compared to the classical version, the version created by Komische Oper Berlin and British Theatre Group 1927 is creative and attractive. "We invited the British Theatre Group 1927 to jointly produce the opera was because of their imaginative thoughts matched the opera and superrealism so well". Therefore, with two years production, "The Magic Flute" in animation with the supporter of new media technology has been heritated together with the old story elements and music spirits.

VLADIMIR MALAKHOV is a world famous ballet dancer and is considered to be the most important dancer of his generation. He was the Intendant of the Staatsballett Berlin and is also working as a choreographer. His choreographies were shown and presented all over the world. 
In 2004, he was appointed director of the Berlin State Ballet.In 2005, he presented his choreography of "Sleeping Beauty" at Deutsche Oper Berlin. His choreography for the Berlin State Ballet "La Peri" celebrated its premiere in February 2010.
Vladimir Malakhov is an honorary citizen of the city of Kiev and honorary professor of the Ukrainian Academy of Choreography. As a sought-after artist, Vladimir Malakhov still occurs and performs worldwide and regularly at major events with ballet's leading ballet companies.



Tour Schedule

4.29-30  National Centre for Peforming Arts
5.1         Jiangsu Centre for Peforming Arts
5.2         Tianjin Grand  Theatre
5.4-5      Shanghai Oriental Art Center

Date/Time: 5 July - 8 July

About the program:

"A supremely well-rounded play that takes the grotesque seriously and its inherent brutality lightly. The whole evening is interwoven with songs by the pop diva (Lady Gaga), which, in new arrangements by Thies Mynther, have an astonishingly brittle soulfulness that suit the old lady surprisingly well. This also has to do with the fact that Kraft emphasises the enduring theme of betrayal in love, and unlike other directors before him, avoids weighing down this ballad about the (financial) corruptibility of humans with political overtones. Nonetheless, the abyss into which society has fallen is of course glaringly obvious."

"I want your love / And I want your revenge / You and me could write a bad romance" – Up until now, you never would have imagined that the songs by Lady Gaga go so well with Friedrich Dürrenmatt. But the Deutsches Theater Berlin, which this season has a mission to seek out the pop aspects of classic plays (recently, for example, in Stefan Pucher’s version of Elektra by Sophocles), emphasises the unexpected. Brilliantly, dazzlingly: voilà, The Visit of Lady Güllen." Each year the Deutsches Theater takes its productions on tour and performs at festivals in places like New York, South America, Japan, and across Europe. A series of television broadcasts of DT productions and frequent invitations to Berlin’s prestigious Theatertreffen festival testify to the theatre’s continuing success. In an annual poll conducted by influential German theatre magazine Theater heute, critics voted the DT “Theatre of the Year” in 2005 and 2008.

Date: 28^th, June, 2017 - 1^st, July, 2017

The Staatstheater Nürnberg again presents the Hitchcock classical work and has gained high praise:
 
“Within such a comedy, the actors and actresses were always in tense, they changed clothes, even the characters so fast that you must be shocked. Though there were differences between the drama and the movie, but the crazy actions and audio-visual feast made you enjoy and won’t regret to see.
The stage setting by Stefan Brandt Meyers did a really good job that the actors and actresses could easily change the scene themselves.
And of course the actors were the best, each of them played more than one character, but they changed so smoothly and flawlessly.”
Staatstheater Nürnberg
Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the largest complex theater in Germany, which has shows on music, dancing and drama frequently. It has opera hall, drama hall, chamber music stage and four experimental theaters.
It averages 800 shows per season, accepts more than 300,000 visitors. On 16^th, September, 2003, the theater became a national theater. 

Date and Venue: 21^st June, 2017 - 25^th June, 2017, NCPA

A battle between the bottom line and the principle of human nature
A tension that has been sparked by discussing contradictions on court
The panic caused by "terror" is truly reflected from everyone's struggles and choices, every audience would be the judges, controlling the life sentences of the pilot who save 70,000 people by losing 164 lives
Germany's hottest literary star Ferdinand von Schirach's hit drama
The great interaction between the stage and audience made the show intense but exciting

Writer: Ferdinand von Schirach
Ferdinand von Schirach (born 1964 in Munich) is a German lawyer and writer. He published his first short stories at the age of forty-five. Shortly thereafter he became one of Germany's most successful authors. His books, which have been translated into more than 35 languages, have sold millions of copies worldwide and have made him "an internationally celebrated star of German literature." “Terror” was first performed in 16 theaters in Germany, it’s detailed story lines and creative interaction gained high common from the media.

Staatstheater Nürnberg
Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the largest complex theater in Germany, which has shows on music, dancing and drama frequently. It has opera hall, drama hall, chamber music stage and four experimental theaters.
It averages 800 shows per season, accepts more than 300,000 visitors. On 16^th, September, 2003, the theater became a national theater. 

Date/Time: 10.May 2017

About Artemis Danza:


About Founder & Art Director of Artemis Danza:

Monica Casadei 

 Tour schedule： 9－15 July, 2017


They’re treasure of Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Their unparelled dynamics and exquisite tone has earned them the title of “Sound of Chicago”
They are the prodigies that live up to the legendary trumpet soloist Adolph Herseth and Tuba master Arnold Jacobs

 About the Chicago Sound-Brass Quintet：

As is known, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of the top-notch orchestras today and has received tutorial guidance from the most renowned artistic directors: Maestro Bernard Haitink, PierreBoulez and Riccardo mutti.
And from such an extraordinary orchestra, first trumpet Christopher Martin, Tuba player Gene Pokorny, second French horn player James Smelser, trombone player Michael Mulcahy， trumpet player Tage Larsen formed the well-known Brass Quintet of Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has always lived up to the reputation as “Sound of Chicago”. Compared to other celebrated orchestras in the world, CSO can always stand out because of their unparelled dynamics. They are known to always deliver an incredible tone no matter the volume.
The legendary Adolph Herseth and Arnold Jacobs have been idols for numerous music lovers. And Now the members of the brass quintet continued to write on the their legacy and are able to inteprete classical music in an inspiring new way wit various musical elements merged into it. In the year of 2011, the brass quintet first came to China and toured from NCPA in Beijing, the Oriental Art center in Shanghai, to the Xinghai Music Hall in Guangzhou.

The Théâtre NONO, now named Théâtre des Calanques, was founded in 2007 by Serge Noyelle and Marion Coutris. After 23 years of running the Théâtre du Chatillon in Paris, they moved to Marseille and introduced the public in the south of France to their highly visual work that creates a connection between opera, dance and circus. In 2017, their Théâtre des Calanques was given a permanent place, located on the edge of the Les Calanques National Park in a brand new wooden theatre focused on the balance between culture and nature. Inspired by Sense of Place and the Oerol festival where they created several performances. This is where their love for the theatre landscape grew and they now want to make the connection between culture and nature through landscape projects and tell the story of their landscape. This in the Parc national des Calanques and the Parc naturel régional des Alpilles.

Serge Noyelle: director and stage designer, was known in France because of the direction of Mcbeth in 1993; Marion Coutris: director, actress, writer, her work Entremets-Entremots successfully performed 300+ shows in France and Europe, and was invited to Beijing in 2012.

The company toured Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, Entremets-Entremots a few times in China and have gained high praise from the audience. 

In 2023, the company was invited again by the Laoshe Theater Festival to perform their representative work Waiting for Godot, and the brandly new show Le Tartuffe in Beijing. The two shows also met the audience in Shanghai and Chengdu as well.