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Wiener Symphoniker celebrates the King of Waltz

2025.02.21

  Johann Strauss has been part of the Wiener Symphoniker's DNA since the orchestra was founded and his music is an integral part of the repertoire. In its anniversary year, the Wiener Symphoniker are collaborating intensively with Johann Strauss 2025, including a concert performance of the operetta ‘Carnival in Rome’ at the MusikTheater an der Wien on 22 February. Austrian conductor Patrick Hahn will conduct the performance with Vera Lotte Boecker in the leading role and Nikolaus Habjan as puppeteer and narrator.
  
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Lucerne Festival achieves encouraging final figures for the Summer Festival

2024.12.06
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The Royal Opera House is thrilled to announce the involvement in the development of the Theatre Green Book version two

2024.09.14
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Lucerne Festival and BirdLife Lucerne continue their partnership

2024.09.06
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China NCPA brings unique music experience to Royal Opera House Muscat

2024.08.23

Beijing Forum for Symphonic Music 2023

Forum 2023.11.13 11:00-12:00(GMT+8)

As one of the three main events under the WAPA framework, the Beijing Forum for Symphonic Music has been held successfully twice in 2019 and 2021. Created in this new era featuring cultural prosperity in China and cultural diversity in the world, the Forum, in line with the principles of being international, open and forward-looking, aims to build a high-level international platform for exchanges in the field of symphonic music. By identifying the developing trends and discussing hot issues of symphonic music, it will draw more attention and support to the development of symphonic music from all sectors of society and promote cross-region and cross-industry integration in order to contribute to exchanges and development in the global performing arts industry.Themed "Reaching for Innovation, Sharing for Prosperity," Beijing Forum for Symphonic Music 2023 will be held from November 13th to 14th in Beijing, China.

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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Concert

 

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Beijing Forum for Performing Arts

Initiated by the China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the World Association for Performing Arts (WAPA) is an international, professional and non-profit
social organization formed voluntarily by theaters, cultural groups, art colleges, cultural companies, and other institutions of performing arts. The WAPA is headquartered in Beijing with its Secretariat set at the NCPA.

The objective of the WAPA is to promote the international development of outstanding performing arts with national and regional characteristics and the integration of science and technology with performing arts by building an open and multilateral exchange platform so as to facilitate the exchange and mutual learning and common prosperity of
world civilizations.

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a). have the willingness to join the WAPA;
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d). have the willingness and ability to fulfill the obligations of members.

Currently, the WAPA consists of 30 member organizations from 19 countries across five continents.

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