Shows

Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra

Date: April 18－7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra was founded in 2009 on the base of Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater Orchestra with a history of some 60 years. It presents Western classic works. Meanwhile, relying on the profound cultural background of Zhejiang province and absorbing elements from the folk music, it has also created and staged a large number of symphonic works with strong regional cultural characteristics such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Spring Dream in Boudoir and Flying Partridges, widely appreciated and warmly welcomed by the audiences.

Mou Sen's Work Someone to Talk to

Date: April 20-22－7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

Someone To Talk To is a full-length novel by Liu Zhenyun, published in 2009, awarded many prizes including the Eighth Mao Dun Literary Prize, translated into over 20 languages, and hailed as the "Chinese One Hundred Years of Solitude." Cao Qing'e, born in Yanjin, Henan, got critically ill at the age of 78. Lying dying, she thought about her life. When she was three years old, her father died an unnatural death in Qinyuan, Shanxi. When she was five, her stepfather Yang Moxi married into their family, renamed Wu Moxi. After her mother carried on a clandestine love affair with another man and ran away from home, Wu Moxi took her away from Yanjin to search for her mother. She was abducted halfway and then taken to some places before ending up in Qinyuan, Shanxi.

Zhejiang Yueju Opera Troupe A Traveler's Song

Date: April 25-26－7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

"With the thread in her hand, the loving mother makes clothes for her son, who then travels far away from home …" The above quote comes from a famous verse from A Traveler's Song, a poem composed by Meng Jiao, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, over one thousand years ago. The verse depicts a mother's vivid image. And just like most mothers in our world, Meng's mother, who inherited good family virtues, worked hard all her life and fashioned Meng into a talented person. The newly-produced Yueju Opera A Traveler's Song, based on the popular verse, depicts the image of mothers all over the world who have endured so many kinds of hardships and have labored much during their lives. As ordinary persons, they have experienced the ups and downs of life, including both pleasure and pain, growing up with their children while living in harmony with and quarreling against them as well. They are great on account of being so ordinary.