Shanghai: The Sound of Music -Broadway's Classical Musical

The Sound of Music makes its Asian debut in Shanghai. Performance of this classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will take place at shanghai Grand Theater.

American composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein's masterpiece, The Sound of Music, makes its Asian debut in Shanghai. Based on Maria Von Trapp's autobiographical account of her family's escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, the show first opened at New York's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959. It would eventually become the second longest running Broadway musical of the fifties. The 1965 film version co-starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer has inspired a spin-off sing-along movie tour of the world.

Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater

Time: 13:30 May 29-30, June 1, 2004

Prices (RMB): 80/160/240/320/400

Guangzhou: The Dvorak Series Concert

Yu Long, the famous conductor will take part in the Dvorak concets in Guangzhou.

Commemorating the centennial of Antonin Dvorak's death, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra has organized a Dvorak concert series. An array of conductors and soloists celebrates this famous Czech nationalist composer in four concerts. Yu Long, music director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, conducts the grand finale on June 12. Cellist Wang Jian performs a solo concerto.

Program: Carnival Overture, Op. 92, Czech Suite, Symphony 9 in E Minor, Op.39, Op. 95, symphony

Conductor: Yang Yang

Venue: The Symphony Performing Hall, Xinghai Concert Hall

Time: June 12, 2004

Prices (RMB): 60/80/100/120

Beijing: Sun Yanzi Concert

Sun Yanzi, the pop singer from Singapore returns to Beijing after her spring tour was postponed due to SARS.

Taiwanese songstress Sun Yanzi's planned tour of China's mainland was canceled due to SARS, but this summer's concert is sure to be a huge hit. Sun has added new styles and songs to her repertoire.

Time: June 12, 2004

Venue: The Capital Gymnasium

Prices (RMB): 180/280/380/480/600/800/1000/1200