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Musicians of the Grand Symphony Orchestra will celebrate New Year in China, RIA Novosti reports. The tour of the orchestra began on Sunday, December 29 and will cover four cities.
Residents of Guangzhou will be the first to meet the Russian musicians. The next concert will be held in the Forbidden City - a huge historical palace complex in the center of Beijing, where the emperors of China lived for five hundred years. Famous opera singer Zhang Liping will perform with the orchestra. She is well known to fans of classical vocals in European countries and overseas. From Beijing, the orchestra will go to Tianjin, where two performances are planned. The last point of the tour will be Nanjing.
The tour program is based on Tchaikovsky’s works. The Chinese public will listen to pieces from the music of the most famous ballets - The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, as well as the Italian Capriccio, excerpts from the opera Eugene Onegin and the overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet. German conductor Thomas Sanderling, who is a longtime friend of the orchestra, will join the musicians on the tour.
Russkiy Mir
