Jazzy Kunqu Opera

A unique jazz-infused journey through the kingdom of Kunqu Opera with Belgian musician Jean Maljean and singer Zhang Jun will give the ancient Chinese art form a modern twist. For the Shanghai concert, Maljean will fuse East and West to create jazz music which perfectly matches Zhang's singing of excerpts from "The Peony Pavilion," "The Story of the Jade Hairpin" and "The Palace of Eternal Youth." His piano solos will include "Funny Face" and Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower."

Date: July 11-12, 7:30pm

Tickets: 80-580 yuan

Tel: 5258-3600

Venue: He Luting Concert Hall, Shanghai Conservatory of Music

Address: 20 Fenyang Rd.

'5 Ways 4 Seasons'

French photography master Thierry Girard is presenting a very unusual exhibition combining two major projects: one completed in France in 2002-03 in the natural park of Vassiviere, and the other about three trips in China (2003, 2005-06) in the pursuit of Victor Segalen's itinerary in the country.

Date: through July 11, 10am-6pm

Tel: 6466-9012

Venue: Beaugreste Photo Gallery

Address: Space 519, Bldg 5, 210 Taikang Rd.

Classical Paintings

Frenchman Paul Lisak's work belies his youth when we first confront his canvases. Lisak trained in different European art schools, and familiar with the different modern art movements, he personally chose to defend the characteristics of classical painting to the death and follow in the footsteps of the great Renaissance and Baroque masters.

Date: through July 11, 10am-6pm

Tel: 6280-7103

Venue: Art in Capitals Gallery

Address: 570 Huaihai Rd. W.

'China Elegance'

Artist Wang Qifeng dreams of those bygone days, which have inspired him to paint a modern world of ancient Chinese beauties. The elegance and poetry; the aesthetic values; the harmony of their co-existence with nature - all become a nostalgia.

Date: through July 13, 11:30-9:30pm

Tel: 6431-9442

Venue: Noeli Gallery

Address: 150B Yueyang Rd.

'Me 2'

Dutch artist Mia van der Heijden has many different styles of painting. She likes to work figuratively as well as abstract. Color and people seem to be the main themes popping up. To her, "painting is a great adventure" and she is "enjoying the ride."

Date: through July 18, 10am-5pm (Monday-Friday), 11am-4pm (Saturday)

Tel: 6519-1660

Venue: Narana Studio

Address: Bldg 5-B, 2361 Yangshupu Rd.

Fatties and Buddhas

Charming fat ladies in traditional Chinese dress drape themselves upon and around antique furniture in oil paintings by Liu Baojun while Qiu Shengxian's round, happy Buddha faces, with long ears, squinting eyes and always wearing a smile, laugh at the world.

Date: through July 15, 10am-6pm

Tel: 6227-0847

Venue: Outstanding Art Gallery

Address: Rm 103, 4A, 50 Moganshan Rd.

'Face Nu'

The solo exhibition is by Spanish artist Daniel Banon who incorporates photography, painting, multimedia and music in the work. For three years, Banon has been searching for plain and ungroomed women faces, through which the artist tries to show the differences in culture, art, fashion around the world via women's point of view.

Date: through August 2, 10am-6pm (Mondays-Fridays), 11am-7pm (Saturdays-Sundays)

Tel: 5465-3673

Venue: Espacio Versatil

Address: Bldg 1, 210 Taikang Rd.

Animation Fair

In its fourth year, the China International Animation, Cartoon and Games Fair encourages original animated works to promote the domestic industry. It also tries to set up a platform for exchange between Chinese and foreign manufacturers. So far 12 countries, including Japan, South Korea, the United States and France, have registered for participation.

Date: July 1, 9am-4pm

Admission: 50 yuan

Venue: Shanghai Exhibition Center

Address: 1000 Yan'an Rd. M.

Traditional Music

The ancient Dunhuang civilization is the centerpiece of the concert presented by Shanghai Chinese Music Orchestra. Antique instruments such as suona (Chinese oboe), pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese two-string fiddle) and guzheng (21-string Chinese zither) will be performed.

Date: July 4, 7:30pm

Tickets: 60-200 yuan

Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall

Address: 523 Yan'an Rd. E.

'West Side Story'

In memory of American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein (1918-90), conductor Chen Xieyang will direct Shanghai Symphony Orchestra for his most famous work, a musical first presented in 1957 on Broadway and later made into a film.

Date: July 5, 7:30pm

Tickets: 50-150 yuan

Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall

Address: 523 Yan'an Rd. E.

Magic Rock Three

Dou Wei, Zhang Chu and He Yong, China's rock music pioneers, will be joined by female rocker Jiang Xin for a concert. It's a long-awaited gathering on a mainstream stage - after 14 years. All born in the late 1960s, the three represented the "new and true voice" from the Chinese mainland in the early to mid-1990s. They inherited the free spirit of Cui Jian, the godfather of Chinese rock in the 1980s who awakened thousands of Chinese youth with his screams at reality.

Date: July 5, 7:30pm

Tickets: 100-1,280 yuan

Venue: Shanghai Grand Stage

Address: 1111 Caoxi Rd. N.

Sandy Lam

Following her successful concert last year, Lam is back for another hit show. Born in Hong Kong with her ancestral hometown Ningbo, the Cantopop singer began her career at the age of 16. She rose to fame in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s with a string of up-tempo Japanese-style songs and then took up the more cosmopolitan "city-rhythm" R&B style.

Date: July 12, 7:30pm

Tickets: 280-1,580 yuan

Venue: Shanghai Grand Stage

Address: 1111 Caoxi Rd. N.

'Jazz Colors'

Shanghai's homegrown jazz band E-Groove presents four concerts themed in colors - purple, red, blue and silver, which represent mystery, passion, classic and fashion respectively. Singer Wang Hao and Jiang Qianru will be special guest performers.

"Silver"

Date: July 12, 7:30pm

Tickets: 80-200 yuan (includes complimentary drinks)

Venue: Jin Mao Concert Hall

Address: 1/F, annex of Jin Mao Tower, 88 Century Ave., Pudong

'Diary of Little Man'

In ancient times, short men were usually called "little men." But nowadays the nickname has been given a wider meaning - men with no dream or ambition. The lighthearted play explores this certain group of people, their joy and trouble. In Chinese without English subtitles.

Date: through July 13, 7:30pm

Tickets: 100-280 yuan

Venue: Malan Flower Rehearsal Hall

Address: 643 Huashan Rd.

Singing for Leslie

Leslie Cheung, who committed suicide in 2003 in Hong Kong, was a legendary figure in Chinese pop music scene. His emotional voice and delicate acting skills won him millions of fans around the world. To commemorate the late star, mega-stars Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung and Karen Mok, all his good friends, will present a concert dedicated to him.

Date: September 12, 7:30pm

Tickets: 120-1,680 yuan

Venue: Hongkou Football Stadium

Address: 444 Dongjiangwan Rd.