National Center for the Performing Arts Beijing

Tiananmen Square, Beijing , China
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    Architectural building, Theater

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    Coming home...

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    Yesterday was my friend Dai Zhonghui's concert with the Beijing Wind Orchestra at the National Center for the Performing Arts - Beijing new state-of-the-art concert hall and the site of one of the concerts for next year's tour to China with the USC Wind Ensemble. The concert was at 10:30 in the morning. An unusual time for a concert, I know. …

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    Right after the visit to the National Centre For The Performing Arts, we were taken by coach for lunch. We arrived at this place for lunch at 1.45 pm and left at 3.00 pm.     After lunch, we proceeded to the Beijing Cultural and Heritage ...

  • 2

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    ... it’s done.        After the Forbidden City I walked over to the National Centre for the Performing Arts. I have noticed that all the new architecture in Beijing has been very modern and very beautiful and the Centre ...

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    Just a few streets away, is the National Centre For The Performing Arts. We walked here all the way from Tiananmen Square and it took around 15 minutes only.     Colloquially known as the egg, this is the Opera House in Beijing. The Centre, ...

  • 4

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    ... cultural experience so I should not complain but embrace.    First stop is the famous Beijing Opera house, or The National Centre for the Performing Arts.  It is also knows as or described as The Egg.  This amazing looking ...

  • 5

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    ... beim Tai Chi beobachten, vorausgesetzt man steht frühmorgens auf. Gegen Abend haben wir uns noch das „National Center for the Performing Arts" angeschaut. Im Kontrast zu den historischen Stätten zeichnet sich das Theater durch die moderne und ...

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    ... form rising above the surrounding buildings and filling the view at the end of the street. It turns out to be the National Centre for the Performing Arts. I’m not sure that I like it. It lacks warmth and a sense of human scale. Surrounded by and ...

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    National Centre for the Performing Arts Concert

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    ... delicious and relatively cheap. We wolfed down our meals and downed our beers then scurried on back to the National Performing Arts Center. The concert hall itself was an amazing sight. Especially at nighttime, when they illuminate the entire building. ...

  • 8

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    ... in the end, but somehown the performance continues unfazed .  Amazing. Our first stop is the National Center for the Performing Arts, otherwise known as the "Egg".  Completed in 2007, it is constructed of titanium and glass and ...

  • 9

    I'm finally here...

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    ... windy here, but that won't stop me from checking out the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China and a Beijing Opera at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. I was able to see Olympic Stadium.  The Olympics were held in Beijing in 2008, just ...

  • 10

    National Centre for Performing Arts

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    ... a busy city. The Opera House has a golden color as its main colour and is the most magnificent building inside National Centre for the Performing Arts. Operas, dance dramas, ballets, and large-scale shows stage here. It has 2091 seats. The audience will ...