5 days of Verdi

To celebrate the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi, Beijing Music Festival will launch a mini Verdi Festival next week to present five concerts and semi-staged opera versions of the composer's most popular works. The series feature vocalists from the composer's home country Italy, Coro Lirico Veneto and Orchestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta. On Oct 22, they will give a multimedia concert, singing Requiem. On Oct 24, they will sing popular arias selected from Macbeth, Un Ballo in Maschera, Nabucco, Aida and La Traviata. On Oct 25, they will perform the full-length Rigoletto; Il Trovatore on Oct 26 and the final performance, La Traviata on Oct 27.

7:30 pm, Oct 22, 24-27. Forbidden City Concert Hall, inside Zhongshan Park, west of Tian'anmen Square, Xicheng district, Beijing. 010-6559-8285, 010-6507-1833, 010-6507-2833.