2009 January

The NCPA opening show will be Puccini's Tosca, produced by the NCPA, and will be followed by another Puccini masterpiece, La Boheme. Since its formal opening in December 2007, the ambitious NCPA has come up with quite a few spectacular productions such as Turandot and the Peking Opera version of Red Cliff, even as most theaters in the West are cutting budgets or going for smaller new productions because of the world financial crisis.

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