Seven contemporary Chinese artists, each from a different stage in China’s development, come together to tell the varied and complex experiences that together make up contemporary Chinese art.
National Archaeological Museum of Athens: The Antikythera Shipwreck
Twenty centuries ago, a Greek ship sank off the island of Antikythera. Discovered in 1900, it was carrying luxury goods – bronze and marble statues, pottery, fine glassware and jewellery – as well as an analogue computer that could predict astronomical positions and eclipses centuries in advance: The Antikythera Mechanism. This is a rare opportunity to view this ancient scientific wonder.
The ‘New Age’ Irish-Norwegian duo, winners of 1995 Eurovision Song Contest and famed for the song ‘You Raise Me Up’, will play new instrumental music in a heartfelt concert sure to warm the winter night.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Principal Guest Conductor Zhang Xian
The acclaimed conductor will direct the orchestra in the overture to Gioachino Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major, K299 and Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No 8 in G Major.
The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s production of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet is now considered one of the most authentically classical in its choreography and production.
Revel’s World of Shakespeare is written, directed and performed by Joseph Graves, an English screenwriter and playwright. Graves magically weaves a moving tale of childhood confusion and exploration, relating it all to the greatest of English writers, William Shakespeare.
