Beijing Poly Theater Management Co., which manages 65 performing theaters around the country including the Shenzhen Poly and Pingshan Theaters, has posted online free videos of past performances to tide fans over during the closure of the theaters since March due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Recent updates include past concerts from the Lucerne Festival and the Verbier Festival, documentaries on Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Bernstein, the English play “An Ideal Husband” presented by Classic Spring, Balanchine’s “Jewels” performed by the Mariinsky Ballet, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra’s March 12 concert and Leipzig Ballet’s “Chaplin.”
Regarded as the world’s first abstract ballet, “Jewels” consists of three acts: Emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds featuring music by Fauré, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky respectively. There is a stark contrast in composition and style for each of the three acts, linked only by the dancers’ dazzling costumes encrusted with colored gems corresponding to each act’s title.
A scene in“An Ideal Husband.”
“An Ideal Husband,” an entertaining and still topical play, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. As an ambitious government minister, Robert Chiltern’s smooth ascent to the top seems assured, until Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of a previous financial scandal.
Music and stage art lovers can also check Poly company’s earlier videos which include piano performances by Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang and Lilya Zilberstein, the Irish dance show “Riverdance,” the famous European Concert of the Berlin Philharmonic in 2017 in Cyprus, ballet shows of “Carmen,” “The Nutcracker,” “Swan Lake,” “Giselle” and “Romeo and Juliet,” and opera shows “The Barber of Seville,” “The Magic Flute” and “Aida.”
Argerich’s show is a recording of her 1977 performance with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Experience Argerich’s “Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1,” a masterpiece that has become one of her signature works. Despite the tremendously challenging solo part, the Argentine master performed it with an unequalled dexterity and artistry.
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