Editor’s note: An award-winning Chinese opera, a concert celebrating Beethoven, a dance show based around novelist Cao Xueqin, and a park-based light festival. Here are four events you won’t want to miss this week.
1. National opera: “Hero”
Created by the Zhuzhou City Opera Heritage Center, the national opera “Hero” premiered at Zhuzhou Shennong Grand Theatre on Jan. 18, 2018. Since then, it has been staged 71 times in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Changsha, playing to more than 80,000 people and winning a raft of national and provincial level honors.
“Hero” is co-produced by the Publicity Department of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Hunan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and the People’s…