The Kinnaree Art Troupe from Thailand to play at the Meet in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Other highlights of the arts festival will see the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Belarus perform Spartacus. Japanese-Brazilian musician Lisa Ono will give her concert Midnight Rose: Jazz and Bossa Nova, and Chinese singer Li Yugang will perform his cross-dressing show, Lady Zhaojun, based on the legend of the Chinese beauty.

Surreal Poetics Contemporary Aragonese Art, an art exhibition held from April 30 to May 3 at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center, will showcase works by artists from Aragon, Spain, including photographer Ramon Massats, sculptor Pablo Serrano and painter Antonio Saura.

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