Blog Tag - Opera

Dive into Beijing's Artistic past with Little-Known Xuannan Cultural Museum
Tianqiao area is best known for its vibrant acrobatic and performing art scene and Xuannan Cultural Museum, tucked away inside Changchun Street,...
Be Transported to an Enchanted World by 1927’s and Komische Oper Berlin’s The Magic Flute at Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, Jul 21-23
Be prepared to experience Mozart’s fairytale opera The Magic Flute (Chinese) as you have never seen it before. British theater group 1927 and Barrie...
Sink or Sail: Beijing’s First Stab at Wagner
The National Centre for the Performing Arts is opening this season’s Opera Festival with Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, a dark oceanic tale about a...
Art Attack: Weird City Lights, Ghost Ships and Anxiety
This week, while some are clearing out for some filial tombsweeping, we’re congratulating the winner of the JUE Festival Next Gen photo competition...
Perfect Tenor: Win Tickets To Jose Carreras
We here at the Beijinger love a bit of opera and we'd like you to feel the same. I can pinpoint the exact moment that I started thinking opera was...
Operatic Gestures: Is Mandarin Ready To Take The Stage?
Amidst the city’s trumpeting cars and trilling vendors, listen closely and you’ll hear another sound reaching its crescendo: a bel canto aria....
Stage Rage: Tosca Opens and We Chat with Director Giancarlo Del Monaco About Opera in China
Tosca opens tonight, and before we start taking these sorts of productions for granted, the Beijinger went behind the scenes to understand just how...
Art Attack: Schooling The Donald and the AIDS Movie that Saved Zhang Ziyi’s Life
This week, it almost doesn’t matter whether your cultural leanings are toward film, books, art exhibits, or performing arts: From Gu Changwei’s...
Win a Double Pass to  La Traviata!
The well-known opera La Traviata is coming to the National Center for the Performing Arts next week, and we have a double pass to give away to...
Carmen's Premiere at the National Center for the Performing Arts
The National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) was surely built with shows like Carmen in mind: productions that are big and colorful, timeless...
A Night to Forget – Carmina Burana at the NCPA
No one will confuse the China National Opera House’s symphonic orchestra and chorus with any of Europe’s finest, but even by local standards the...