Shows

NCPA Resident Artists Concert

Date: April 6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-200 yuan

NCPA has produced 32 operas since its birth. In 2012, NCPA Opera Ensemble was established, and since then it continuously attracts outstanding opera talents to join, including baritone Liu Songhu (winner of French "Toulouse" International Vocal Competition), tenorin Zhengjian (winner of "Wenhua Award" conferred by Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China), bass Guang Zhijing, excellent bass Chen Peixin, promising soprano Li Xintong and baritone Wang Hexiang. Since joining in NCPA, they perform in over 130 performances of NCPA opera commissions, including The Ballad of Canal, L'Italiana in Algeri, Eugene Onegin, Il Trovatore, The Rickshaw Boy, etc. In addition to NCPA Opera Ensemble, soprano Zhou Xiaolin and mezzo-soprano Yang Yanting are also especially invited to give full play to their skills in this concert, who often perform in NCPA operas.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Alan Tam China Tour in Shanghai

Date: April 1 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Mercedes-Benz Arena

Price: 380-1,680 yuan

Alan Tam Wing-lun MH is a Hong Kong singer and actor. He played a major role in developing the Cantopop scene in the 1980s as he was known for singing romantic ballads with modern arrangements. Today, he is still active in the music and film industry, releasing new albums on a regular basis. Since the late 1980s, he has served as a mentor for the cantopop music industry, earning the nickname the "Principal" or "Principal Tam". Today he is regularly seen across the media in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, and various parts of East Asia participating in all types of entertainment related events and charity activities. As of 2013, Alan Tam has launched total 115 solo albums and has sold over 35 million records worldwide, he is also holding the record for having the most concerts in Hong Kong as a solo artist.

Contact: 400-610-3721

SNH48 Present Girl Crush 7Senses 1st Showcase in Shanghai

Date: April 7 - 7 pm

Venue: The Mixing Room

Price: 168 yuan

SNH48 (S.N.H. Forty-eight) is a Chinese idol girl group based in Shanghai, China. Following AKB48's creator Yasushi Akimoto's concept of "idols you can meet", the group features dozens of female members around the age of 20, who perform regularly in the group's own theater and interact with fans predominantly via handshake events. The group is owned by Chinese companies NineStyle and Star48.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Jazz Weekend - French Jazz Artist Thomas Enhco Piano Recital

Date: May 6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Concert Hall

Price: 80-599 yuan

Thomas Enhco, born in Paris, starts playing the violin and piano at an early age, and studies classical music and jazz in both instruments. At 12, Thomas enters the Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood, where he is spotted by the drummer Peter Erskine who offers to participate in Thomas Enhco's first CD. He is then accepted at the Paris Conservatoire National Sup??rieur de Musique et Danse. In 2004-2005, Thomas composes and records his first album, Esquisse, which is released in 2006 (label Ames, distrib. Harmonia Mundi). He reaches the finals in the Defense National Jazz Competition in 2005 and receives the Young Talent Price at the Montauban Jazz Festival in 2006.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Siro-A- Spectacle Projection Mapping Show

Date: April 6-9 - 7:30 pm

Venue: People Grand Theater

Price: 80-680 yuan

SIRO-A is a seven member Japanese entertainment performance group from Sendai, Japan. Their name SIRO-A (SIRO = White, colorless in Japanese) means "belonging to no group, impossible to define as anybody." SIRO-A fuses mime, groundbreaking visual effects, and a techno soundtrack to create a whole new entertainment "Technodelic & Visual Show."

The group was formed in 2002 in Sendai. Following their success at Venezia Young Art Performance in 2004, they received the Bronze Award at GEISHA#7 the next year.

In 2011, SIRO-A won the prestigious "Spirit of the Fringe" Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and received international media exposure. Their international success was followed by their first European tour in German, Denmark, Austria, and France 2012. In 2013, they performed in the long-running Leicester Square Theatre in London.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Lucia di Lammermoor

Date: April 9-12 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center

Price: 100-1632 yuan

At Lammermoor, Scotland in the late 17th century, the clans of Lord Enrico Ashton and Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood have long been in feud. Ashton killed Edgardo's father and seized his lands and properties. Then one day, Enrico's younger sister Lucia gets assaulted by a wild ox nearby her mother's graveyard. By chance, Edgardo passes by and comes to her rescue. They fall into love with each other ever since. As soon as he knows the fact, Enrico feels furious and even desires to take revenge no matter how hard priest Raymundo tries to absolve Lucia. Out of political ambition, Enrico asks his sister to abandon Edgardo and marry his colleague Lord Arturo Bucklaw, which Lucia rejects flatly. Soon later Edgardo would visit France, so he comes to bid Lucia adieu. On that occasion, they both swear to love each other all lifelong and exchange their rings as a show of eternal love. Later Edgardo writes many letters to Lucia, all of which are intercepted by Enrico's aide Normanno. Enrico and Normanno even fake letters to tell Lucia that Edgardo has got a new girl-friend. Upon receiving those letters, Lucia gets overcome with grief. With Raymundo's persuasion, Lucia falls into the trick and agrees to marry Arturo who can help pull her brother out of a predicament. As soon as Lucia signs her name at the wedding, Edgardo returns and appears all of a sudden. He damns her for betraying him and gets his ring back. On the very night, Enrico and Edgardo arrange a duel for themselves at daybreak. At the same time, Lucia goes mad and kills Arturo and herself. Edgar knows the ins and outs of the affair and wields his sword to kill himself as well. Contact: 400-610-3721

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Date: April 2-3 - 10:30 am

Venue: The Red Theater, Beijing

Price: 50-360 yuan

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. The first half was originally a serial in 1881 and 1882, published as La storia di un burattino (literally "The tale of a puppet"), and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. According to extensive research done by the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi in late 1990s and based on UNESCO sources, it has been adapted in over 260 languages worldwide. That makes it the most translated non-religious book in the world, and one of the best-selling books ever published.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Alexei Kornienko & Elena Denisova Concert in Shanghai

Date: April 6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center

Price: 80-580 yuan

Alexei Kornienko is an Austrian conductor and pianist of Russian descent. Alexei Kornienko is a co-founder of the chamber orchestra Collegium Musicum Carinthia. Together with his wife, violinist Elena Denisova, Alexei Kornienko initiated the founding of the Austrian Gustav Mahler Music Society, and the Gustav-Mahler-Ensemble was established under the Society's aegis.

Elena Denisova is an Austrian violinist and festival director of Russian descent. Elena Denisova is the founder of the Moscow National Quartet and the co-founder of the chamber orchestra "Collegium Musicum Carinthia". Together with the conductor and pianist Alexei Kornienko she founded the Gustav-Mahler-Ensemble, which among others performs at the annual "Woerthersee Classic Festival". Elena Denisova represents this festival as a director. Ultimately she functions as chairwoman of the 2001 founded association "Classic Etcetera".

Contact: 400-610-3721

BodyVox - Urban Meadow in Beijing

Date: April 7-8 - 7:30 pm

Venue: China Millennium Monument Premiere Theater

Price: 50-299 yuan

Since its founding in 1997, BodyVox has garnered international acclaim for its ingenuity, creativity, and unique approach to theater that assimilates all possibilities for movement, endows it with breathtaking physicality, enriches it with striking imagery and embellishes it with humor, wit and whimsy to create refined dancing that knows no boundaries.

Urban Meadow celebrates the company's history of making work that has entertained and moved audiences around the world. Here are dances of sweeping beauty, intense physicality and irreverent humor, ranging from the mysterious to the romantic to the hilarious. Urban Meadow represents all the facets of BodyVox in an evening of unforgettable dance theater.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Activities & nightlife

Blue Note Beijing Melissa Aldana

Date: April 7-8 - 7 pm

Venue: Blue Note Beijing

Price: 380-480 yuan

Melissa Aldana is a Chilean tenor saxophone player, who performs both as a soloist and with her band Melissa Aldana & Crash TrioRising tenor saxophone star releases her second trio album (and fourth as a leader), unveiling powerful music by herself and her illustrious bandmates.

Acclaimed tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana follows up her 2014 Concord release Melissa Aldana& Crash Trio with the explorative and deeply swinging Back Home, this time released on the Wommusic label. Pablo Menares, Aldana's fellow native of Santiago, Chile, is again on bass. On drums is the in- demand JochenRueckert, bringing a supple and unpredictable rhythmic elan to the session. These three musicians turn on a dime and project an uncommonly full orchestral sound, rich in spiritual intensity, all in the absence of a harmony instrument.

Contact: 400-610-3721

The Paper Tigers album and tour launch party in Beijing

Date: April 15 - 9 pm

Venue: Jianghu Bar, Beijing

Price: 50 yuan

Beijing's "hottest indie rock band" The Paper Tigers kick off their national tour at venerable local venue Jianghu Bar. The band - fresh off the release of their music video for "Hutong Hipster", which has been streamed 8,000 times on QQ Video - will unveil their self-recorded, self-released and self-titled debut EP in a celebratory concert that also features The Harridans (in their first performance after a prolonged hiatus) and Joker's Belief (who will perform a special acoustic set). After that, the Tigers hit the road, with shows at Dalian's Hertz Bar (April 20), Changchun's Soundwave Livehouse (April 21), and Shenyang's Meidiqi Music Space (April 22).

Contact: WeChat official account: bj-jianghubar

Dimitri Vegas and Mattn in Shanghai

Date: April 7 - 10 pm

Venue: M2 Club

Price: 280 yuan

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are a Belgian DJ and record producer duo composed of brothers Dimitri Thivaios and Michael Thivaios. They are ranked second on DJ Mag's 2016 Top 100 DJs list.

Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike began to make their first steps as DJ's at a young age. Very quickly, they made several appearances in small clubs and was the resident BeatFM radio DJ. Dimitri then left Flanders in 1999 and began touring Europe. He lived in Mallorca and then in Halkidiki, Greece before moving to Ibiza in 2003, where he was a resident in major clubs such as Privilege and Space.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Vinyasa Yoga Dance with Malgo Blonska

Date: April 2 - 9 pm

Venue: Yoga Yard

Price: 15 yuan (minimum donation)

This class is designed for students who enjoy a dynamic practice. Each class will finish with a short choreography based on the moves learned during the practice and danced to a contemporary or classical music piece. This is a donation-based class for charity and the language of instruction is English.

Contact: 010-6413-0774

Sports

2017 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix

Date: April 9 - 9 am

Venue: Shanghai International Circuit

Price: 280-2,760 yuan

See the greatest racing show on earth this April as the pinnacle of racing technology hurtles around 5.5 kilometres of China's finest track at breakneck speeds. Va-va-voom! The race organisers have arranged the event for the best pricing and viewing options ever with lower-priced tickets and greater pit lane access. Don't miss out on the event of the year this spring.

Located just outside of the city in Anting, Shanghai Audi International Circuit is 5.451kms long; with 56 laps, racers will travel a total distance of 305.066kms. The racetrack was designed in shape of the character '上' of 'Shanghai'. The current track record is 1:32.238 minutes held by Michael Schumacher.

Contact: 400-610-3721