Anew musical featuring Chinese and international artists, Sound of the Silk Road, was staged at the China National Opera House in Beijing on Friday, and will also be performed on Saturday night. A national tour will follow after the shows in the capital.
When it comes to music, engaging with the audience is everything. But it can hardly be more captivating than Hubert Yan Huichang, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for Life of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra who could lead the crowd with a wave of his hand when he encouraged them to sing along as his musicians played the famous Romance of the Condor Heroes.
In Beijing's suburban farmlands, it is getting more and more common to see people born in the 1980s and 1990s or even younger.
The Long March Suite, a new version of the historic large-scale symphonic and choral concert, premiered in Xingguo county, Jiangxi province on March 31. It will be staged for 10 continuous shows and will become a resident show there.
The message of anticipation, unity of people and Earth delivered in the book have inspired a cross-cultural exhibition, Bon Moment, at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing where the works of 13 Chinese and French contemporary artists are on show to exchange views on shared topics, including the relation between men and Earth, the unknown, loneliness and death.
This April marks the fourth year since a devastating fire ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture built in the Middle Ages that has kept watch over the French capital for more than eight centuries.
Tourists have fun among peach blossoms in Suosong village in Nyingchi, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, on April 5, 2023.
HEFEI, April 6 (Xinhua) -- In a tea plantation in Qimen County, East China's Anhui province, Maksim Ruban scrutinizes the collected fresh tea leaves as local farmers usher in their annual tea-picking season.
As the advent of spring heralds the ideal time for harvesting fresh tea leaves, locals in Lancang Lahu autonomous county of Yunnan province celebrated the beginning of the tea-picking season with a spirited ceremony held at Jingmai Mountain.
Dubbed the "Peony Capital of China" for its role as a key base for peony production, research, exports, and sightseeing, Heze, Shandong province held a news conference on April 3 to discuss its preparations for the upcoming World Peony Conference and the 32nd Heze International Peony Cultural Tourism Festival, which will run from April 8 to 10.
Peonies of various colors and varieties are in full bloom in Heze, Shandong province in April, offering visitors great opportunities to admire the "king of the flowers" and China's national flower.
When visiting museums and historical sites throughout the country, people seldom notice the completeness of some items that are the work of relic repair experts.