Chinese composer Ye Xiaogang will premiere his latest symphonic poem, The China Story - Songs From the Steppe, with a joint performance of the Baotou Symphony Orchestra and the China National Symphony Orchestra at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Wednesday.
Beijing Comedy Theater will mark its second anniversary on July 16 by performing William Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice from July 11 to 30.
A large-scale exhibition featuring contemporary literati arts will be unveiled at the Today Art Museum on June 25.
Zhang Xian stands as one of the world's few prominent female conductors. Chen Nan reports.
While there are many superhero movies playing in the local multiplex, Chinese dance drama director Wang Ge hopes to showcase Chinese heroes onstage.
An exhibition from the ancient 'kiln city' of Jingdezhen shows how ceramic traditions have persisted while new artists are endowing traditional craftsmanship with contemporary flourishes. Lin Qi reports.
Five Chinese artists who traveled to three African countries earlier this year didn't see the savannas and animals they expected - but they were deeply touched by the people.
Few Chinese know Wang Shikuo (1911-73), but most know his works - realistic oil paintings that depict China's Communist revolution.
Thomas Kaplan says he has never "lived" with any of the 250 paintings from his collection.
When the production of Mozart's opera Magic Flute by the Komische Oper Berlin and British theater group 1927, is staged in Beijing from July 21 to 23 at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, audiences will see an imaginative mix of an animated film, live action, a silent movie and the actors.
Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun, who won the Oscar for the original score of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has always been ahead of the curve.
An ongoing exhibition, Mise Porcelain: Impressive Discovery and Mysterious Tribute, at Beijing's Palace Museum, sheds light on items given in tribute to emperors.