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Arts Souvenir Shops
The Art Souvenir Shops runs outdoors of the ground floor of the Concert Hall from north to south, including the NCPA Souvenir Shop, the TT-Art Bookstore, the NCPA Drama-Artwork Shop, and the Franz Artwork Shop.
Souvenir Shops
The Souvenir Shop sells various souvenirs exclusively designed for the NCPA. The souvenirs not only pursue high quality, but also focus on creativity and artistic quality, integrating the architectural features of the NCPA or different artistic expression modes. For example, traditional mugs, innovatively carved light paintings, small pins and large-sized crystal piano music boxes. The picture albums and books of the NCPA's architectures sold here make you understand every details and stories about this miraculous building. The prices are affordable for visitors and audience.
Audiovisual Shop
Audiovisual Shop is located at east side of Grand Foyer on the first floor of NCPA. Bright storefront and classic records will bring extraordinary artistic experience to you.
Audiovisual Shop aims high to emerge as "palace in classical record industry". In echo with visiting masters and artists performing in NCPA, the shop converges about a total of 1,000 types of international top artists' record CDs and DVDs within a wide range of artistic categories. It is dedicated to all-round and top-quality services for art enthusiasts.
Opening Hours: Tue-Sun, 9:00 AM-21:30 PM
Drama-Artwork Shop
The Drama-Artwork Shop aims to popularize Chinese traditional arts and folk crafts. In the shop, one can find traditional facial make-up in Chinese operas, glove puppies in puppy shows, silk dolls, elegant shadow figures, paper-cuts and Chinese New Year paintings, and lovely daily accessories full of various drama elements. The audience are able to further understand Chinese traditional operas via these works. In addition, on-site production shows for making traditional handicraft products are held here irregularly for you to closely experience the charm of traditional folk culture.
TT-Art Bookstore
As a chain store to sell arts books, the TT-Art Bookstore sells various arts books to the audience related to numerous shows and programs in the NCPA. Adhering to the principle of 'We make you love arts', the books and audio-visual products, over 30,000 kinds in total, cover such fields as vocal music, piano, orchestral instruments, folk music, dance, drama, music theory, biographies, history, theories etc. Watch a show and buy a book to take the affection of arts home.
Franz Artwork Shop
Located at the entrance to the Concert Hall, the Franz Artwork Shop provides you with unique stage scene porcelains, which represent the excellent moments on the stage by combining the relief and 3D sculptures with rich and romantic colors that cannot be found anywhere else. These creative ideas are all originated from the programs played in the NCPA. When porcelains meet Princess Turandot and Prince Igor, the magnificent moments on the stage are stored eternally by artists' visual angle and techniques. It is an innovative solution to integrate different art expression modes so as to create new art products.
Arts Exhibitions
Objects, pictures, models and diverse perspectives are catered for a more comprehensive interpretation of different kinds of arts; touch screens, LCD TVs, animation, video and other modern means are meant to promote in-depth communication between art and people in a more sensual and vivid way. Here we have an oil station to empower the public with basic know-how and help them find more excitement in their lives rather than merely an exhibition.
Exhibition Halls, North Underwater Corridor
The East and West Exhibition Halls, with an area of 1,200 square meters each, are located on both sides of the north underwater corridor. The nearly closed art space in the heart of the city creates a rare quiet corner where visitors can leisurely appreciate the joys and sorrows on the stage. Here, the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition, the Beijing Opera Art Exhibition, Art Opera-Themed Exhibition, Ancient Greek Drama Show had their debut, enabling us to decrypt the unique charm of Chinese and foreign art treasures; here, Li Lanqing Seal Cutting Exhibition, Fine Oil-painting Classical Exhibition, Exhibition of Diplomatic Gifts Themed in Performing Arts by Founding Leaders, National Book Design Art Exhibition and the Art Exhibition of Classic Ceramic extended art to the broader dimensions; here, opera arias with the Chinese ancient music by bamboo flute echo at the same time, while scripts of Puccini opera come across modern music and animation in the same space.
Art Gallery
Modern Art Museum is the largest exhibition hall in the Centre and is located at the top of the south side of the Opera House. Since August 2008, 'Shoushan Stone Carving Exhibition', 'Exhibition Commemorating the Art Achievement in the Thirtieth Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up', 'Anniversary Exhibition of the NCPA" have been held. Today, the regular exhibition - 'Marvel Blooms Here - Arts Achievement Exhibition of the NCPA' - reveals the growing path of the NCPA in the last two years through detailed statistics, pictures and objects.
Ring Corridor, Opera House
On the ground floor of the north side of the Opera House, a metal net built around seems to be a natural barrier to block the noise from the public hall and also builds a unique space and a natural exhibition platform. Along the ring corridor, the bronze doors by the east and west end tailor this arc of vision in vigorous harmony; the net in the north covered with twisting texture echoes well with the silver decorative aluminum pattern of bluegrass on the red wall on the south; wall lamps embedded on each wall lighten the corridor through the dotted glass decorations, leaving the marble floor of night rose in even deeper serenity.
Walking around, all kinds of exhibitions overwhelm your sight with exhibitions of opera repertoires, of plays including The Red Cliff, Liberation and The Magi Flute, Stuttgart Ballet and American Ballet Troupe Shows and etc. They could be gentle and charming, or wild and free; or with armored cavalry or a mysterious magic, taking viewers into one wonderland after another. In the ring corridor on the second floor, 'The Opera Feast - the World's Famous Opera Festivals' introduces the world-renowned opera festivals including the Verona Opera Festival, Rossini Opera Festival and Puccini Opera Festival.
Art Exhibition Room
Arts Exhibition Room, located in the southwest side of F 1 of the Opera House, has an area of 100 square meters. It mainly displays intangible cultural heritages of China, while excellent works of visual art are also presented. Piyingxi (leather-silhouette show) interpreting the ancient and modern through shadows, dancing ceramic figurines of the Tang Dynasty that date back glamorous style of the Han and Tang Dynasties, silk figure that is full of "Beijing Flavor" and merry "point color paper-cut" from Weixian County of Hebei province, the Chinese folk art treasure displays are continuing to arouse the awareness of the whole society to the protection of the intangible cultural heritages and further promote the development of our folklore culture. Oversea exhibitions such as "Haydn's Life of Music" have also become an important channel for cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world.
The unique semi-circular design of the Arts Exhibition Room resembles the shape of a crescent, which perfectly combines the softness of the building with the elegance of art, showing audiences a panorama view of all exhibits wherever they stand; the entire glass door separates the thronging crowd in the Grand Foyer and also gains the spectacular view south of the NCPA.
Ring Corridor, Theatre
The north and south poles under the dome have their own flavor while in the east and west of the Public Hall, wonderful artistic experiences are unfolding. A small exhibition hall is located in the east corner of the Public Hall, just opposite to the "Fifth Space Stage" on the west side. Artistic expression here is more "static", with theatrical drama and cultural exhibitions, artist exhibitions, sculpture and small oil painting exhibitions. Meanwhile, here are also "dynamic" small-scale performances and lectures in line with the themed events of the theatre.
Ring Corridor, Arts Library
The ring corridor outside the Arts Library on the fourth floor of the Concert Hall holds permanent colorful exhibitions in graphics and pictures. The theme is 'Exploring the World of Phonograms' which aims at telling music stories behind the masterpiece records. It includes the music legend of world famous composers and performers of all time and music knowledge that everyone loves. Till now we have successfully held the Large-scale Photo Exhibition for the 100th Anniversary of Karajan, The World-famous Ballet Troupe Show, The First Anniversary in Memorial of Luciano Pavarotti, Royal Violin Exhibition, Exhibition of Renowned International Record Companies, Selected Works of World's Best Operas, Summer Youth Art Experience Events - Musical Instrument Exhibition, Mendelssohn Biography Show and 'Looking Back on Ten Years of Langlang' Exhibitions. These not only introduced a wealth of knowledge to the audiences, but also recommended related classical records, through which the majority of art lovers can further enrich their experiences and appreciate the unforgettable charm.
Restaurant&Cafe
Western Cuisine
The Western Cuisine, integrating exquisite cuisine, elegant decoration with resplendent landscape, invites you to appreciate the magnificent architecture while enjoy delicious food.
NCPA Cafe
The Cafes provide over 90 categories of nutritious and healthy fast foods, including NCPA Coffee, Artist Coffee, salads and other refreshments for you to enjoy.