The Lord of the Rings In Concert: The Fellowship of the Ring kicks off a three-year celebration during which each of the three Academy Award®-winning films will be performed In Concert upon the tenth anniversary of its release. The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) will tour in 2011, The Two Towers (2002) in 2012, and the grand finale, The Return of the King (2003), in 2013.

 

Composer Howard Shore said, "My first score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience."

 

Shore’s score not only captures Fellowship’s sweeping emotion, thrilling vistas and grand journeys, but also echoes the very construction of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Styles, instruments and performers collected from around the world provide each of Tolkien’s cultures with a unique musical imprint. In operatic fashion, these musical worlds commingle, sometimes combining forces for a culminated power, other times violently clashing – and always bending to the will of the One Ring and its own ominous family of themes.

 

 

 

China National Opera House established in 1952, is a national theatre affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and one of the Asian opera theatres with the advantage of scale and credits. It now has an opera troupe, a chorus, a symphony orchestra and a department of stage design. The China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra is one of the most renowned art troupes in China affiliated with China National Opera House. By performing some world-famous operas like La traviata, Madama Butterfly and Marco Polo, it is active on the world opera stage. In addition, the Orchestra also plays the music by some prestigious musicians such as Beethoven, Debussy, and Shostakovich and has worked with brilliant artists like David Oistrakh and Luciano Pavarotti. As the winner of many awards in both national and international competitions, it maintains a high level in international artistic communications and wins a widespread fame for China National Opera House and provides continuous support for its development.