Best of Italian and Spanish songs

A performance by Jose Carreras will kick off the annual Meet In Beijing arts festival. Carreras will sing the overture to the opera Nabucco to salute to the composer Giuseppe Verdi, as 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian composer. The program includes Italian and Spanish folk songs. The concert also celebrates the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relation between Spain and China. Young, talented Chinese soprano Wang Li has been invited to sing a Chinese song Beijing, My Home with the tenor.

7:30 pm, April 27, National Center for the Performing Arts. 010-6655-0000.

- Chen Jie