Event

Modern Turkish Food & Wine Pairing

Wine and food lovers are invited to an upcoming Turkish wine and food pairing dinner at Turkish restaurant Pasha, a modern, relaxed restaurant located in the heart of downtown Shanghai. The dinner features an authentic wine list and a unique and eclectic menu. Well-selected wines are expertly paired with different Turkish dishes. The featured wines include sparkling Altin Kopuk Brut for a cocktail reception, white wines Ancyra Muscat 2012 and Egeo Chardonnay 2012, and reds Kocabag Kalecik Karasi 2012 and Pendore Bogazkere 2010.

Date: November 27, 7 pm to 10:30 pm

Venue: Pasha Restaurant

帕夏土耳其餐厅

Address: 262 Nanchang Road

南昌路262号

Admission: All you can drink and eat for 350 yuan per person

Please reserve your ticket with Chuck at chuck@evercohol.com or call Pasha at 6472-8113

Visit http://vino-esotico.com/detail_events.php?id=46 for more information

On Stage

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker is a ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions. The show is a Christmas favorite. This performance is produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre, and features the English-born Derek Deane, who is the choreographer, director and costume designer of the show.

Date: December 23 and 24,

7:15 pm

Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre

上海大剧院

Address: 300 People's Avenue

人民大道300号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 680 yuan

Call 6386-8686 for details

Christmas Choral Fantasy - Organ and Choir Concert

Shanghai Philharmonic Symphony Choir was established in July, 2013. Their recent activities include collaborating with the famous Polish soundtrack master Preisner at the French film Red, White and Blue concert in the MISA festival and performing at 2013 Video Games Live, a concert themed after World of Warcraft which created a big stir this summer. Born in 1969, Thorsten Maeder specializes in conducting, organ and piano. Maeder is a laureate of international competitions and performs regular concerts in Germany and many others countries. He has been invited to perform in South America, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and China.

Date: December 24, 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海东方艺术中心

Address: 425 Dingxiang Road

丁香路425号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 380 yuan

Call 6854-1234 for more detailed information

The 20th Anniversary of Riverdance

With an incredible two decades of global success since the show first burst out at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1994, this year welcomes the 20th anniversary of Riverdance, which is being marked with a world tour. This 20th anniversary version will give Riverdance fans old and new the opportunity to celebrate an incredible milestone for an incredible show. This version will have a brand-new stage setting and when it tours in China, it will add some local elements like taking traditional Chinese folk songs, "Love Song of Kangding" and "My Motherland" as accompaniments.

Date: January 13 to 18, 7: 30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square

上海文化广场

Address: 597 Fuxing Road Middle

复兴中路597号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 800 yuan

Call 6472-9000 for details

German Musical Elisabeth

The German musical Elisabeth will come to Shanghai for the first time. Its popularity in German-language countries rivals that of Cats in English-speaking countries. Produced by the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (VBW) in 1992, Elisabeth portrays the turbulent life and death of a Bavarian girl named Elisabeth, who is also known as Sisi after her engagement with Emperor Franz Joseph I in Austria. Caught in a golden cage, Elisabeth feels restrained by the strict rules of the court, making her want to break free. She then begins a relationship with the personification of Death. The musical has been translated into seven languages and seen by over 10 million people from 11 countries around the world, making it the most successful German-language musical of all time. The version staged in Shanghai will star Italian musical actress Roberta Valentini as Elisabeth and German musical tenor Mark Seibert in the role of Death. Performed in German with Chinese & English subtitles.

Date: December 9 to January 11, 7:15 pm

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square

上海文化广场

Address: 597 Fuxing Road Middle

复兴中路597号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 1,180 yuan

Call 6472-9000 for more detailed information

Hamlet by TNT Theatre

Hamlet is perhaps one of the most fascinating plays in the world. It is a play which can be regarded as a complex and frustrating mix of different traditions, beliefs and source material. And Prince Hamlet's own problems are those of our audience. Founded in 1980 in the UK, TNT Theatre has established itself as one of the most popular international touring theater companies in the world. TNT Theatre has won many awards at the Munich Biennale, the Edinburgh Festival, the Tehran Festival and also from the government of Singapore. Aiming to integrate all the performing arts, the TNT productions always include a specially commissioned score by a leading composer. The director always works with a choreographer and the actors are often chosen for their ability to cross the disciplines of theater, music and dance.

Date: December 12 to 14, 7:30 pm

Venue: Lyceum Theatre

兰心大戏院

Address: 57 Maoming Road South茂名南路57号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 380 yuan

Call 6217-8530 for more detailed information

Golden Songs of Teresa Teng Concert

Teresa Teng (1953-95) was an influential Chinese pop singer from Taiwan, who was known for her folk songs and romantic ballads. Her voice and songs are instantly recognizable throughout the whole of Asia, and in areas with large Asian populations. Chen Yajuan, a Japanese-Chinese female singer, will perform Teng's classic songs, including "Moon Represents My Heart" and "When Will You Come Back Again?"

Date: December 13, 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art

Center 上海东方艺术中心

Address: 425 Dingxiang Road

丁香路425号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 580 yuan

Call 6132-6586 for details

New Year's Concert by Russian National Orchestra

The Russian National Orchestra enjoys a long history of more than 100 years, and it highlights traditional Russian instruments like the balalaika. For this 2015 New Year's concert in Shanghai, the orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.5, Rimsky Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture, and Prokofiev's Suite from Romeo and Juliet.

Date: January 1, 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art

Center 上海东方艺术中心

Address: 425 Dingxiang Road

丁香路425号

Tickets: 80 yuan to 1,680 yuan

Call 6132-6586 for details

Exhibition

Jeffrey Shaw and Hu Jieming Twofold Solo Exhibition

Jeffrey Shaw and Hu Jieming twofold solo exhibition focuses on these two artists who have both developed individual approaches to new media art, and contributed each in their own way to the practice and context of this new art form as we experience it today. Jeffrey Shaw is a leading figure in new media art and has been active since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema, and installation paradigms of the 1960s, to its present day technology-informed and virtualized forms. Set out as a twofold solo exhibition, the Chronus Art Center simultaneously presents a new art piece by Hu Jieming: Tai Chi with Prelude. This has been created not only as a response to the influence of Hu's old master, but also to Hu's own artistic achievements over the past years. Constantly concerned with subjects such as time, human history, and cultural memory, Hu intended to illuminate the boundaries between the "passing-by" and "going-on" and by doing so he set viewers free from the chronological way of seeing historical events, onto a more accidental reconstruction.

Date: Until November 28, 11 am to 6 pm (closed Mondays)

Venue: Chronus Art Center

新时线媒体艺术中心

Address: Bldg 18, 50 Moganshan Road 莫干山路50号18号楼

Admission: Free

Call 5271-5789 for details