In the early 1950s, Jianghandar gangs fleeing to the Chinese border collaborate with the KMT reactionary forces, and get ready to attack the soldiers and civilians at the borderland. Amir, a new soldier from the frontier guards mistakenly assumes that local herdsman Navruz's new married bride Grandam is his sweetheart at the young age, and gets into deep obsession. 

Yang Paizhang casts doubt upon the real identity of the 'bride'. In fact, the so-called 'bride' is latent spy Gribar responsible for collecting intelligence for Jianghandar. 

Meanwhile, border headquarters' scout Kara also disguises himself as a shepherd to seek out information about the t enemy outside the mountain, and meets with maid of Jianghandar, actually pure girl Grandam losing contact with Amir for many years, and confirms the identity of spy 'True Deity'. As the approaching of Baroto Festival, fight along the border may break out at any moment. On a storm night, Yibanzhang and soldier Amir on duty at the checkpoint on the snow mountain decisively repel the invasion of the bandits. But in order to cover Amir, Yibanzhang heroically sacrifices his own life. At the same night, young herdsman Navruz coming to rescue them is also killed by an avalanche. 

With the help of Kara, Grandam flees from the bandits' lair. But on the runaway, Kara is killed secretly by the spy 'True Deity'. 

In the grave situation, Yang Paizhang suppresses his sadness, calmly copes with the situation, and meets plot with plot, finally, in the Baroto Festival sheep picking up game, they cooperate with the reinforcements of the headquarters, and vanquish the enemy's attack, and 'True Deity' and Jianghandar are captured. 

Amir meets Grandam again. Peace returns to earth and the Pamirs witnesses the romantic love. 

Lü Jia

Lü Jia has been conductor of NCPA's productions including Turandot, La Boheme, The Village Teacher, The Chinese Orphan, L'elisir d'Amore, Tosca,Der Fliegende Hollander, Un Ballo in Maschera and The Ballad of Canal.

Lü Jia is the opera director of NCPA, principal conductor of NCPA Orchestra, music director & chief conductor of the Macao Orchestra, and artistic director of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Spain. Mr. Lü has been the Music Director of the Arena di Verona, the world's largest open-air opera theater, and principal conductor for the Trieste Opera, Tuscany Regional Orchestra in Florence, Lazio Chamber Orchestra in Rome, and Sweden's Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra. He has also been a frequent guest conductor with the Hallé Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in England, the Dortmund Opera House in Germany, and the Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra in Italy.

Mr. Lü has conducted two thousand concerts and operas in Europe and the Americas, and has cooperated with more than one hundred opera houses and orchestras, including the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and La Scala in Milan, as well as opera houses in Lausanne, Turin, Rome, Naples, Verona, Venice, Florence, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. He has also worked with the Berlin Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Italy's RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Rome's Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, England's City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Norway's Oslo Philharmonic, Lyon National Orchestra in France, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, all the major orchestras in Australia, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

Opera has always played a special role in Lü Jia's career. In Italy and Germany, homelands of the European opera tradition, he has directed nearly fifty operas. As the first Asian conductor to serve as director of a nationally-recognized opera company in Italy, he was praised by one Italian music critic as 'a conductor who understands Italian opera even better than Italians do'. In September of 1989, he won First Prize and the Judges' Prize in the 'Antonio Perdrotti' International Conducting Competition in Italy, which is his entrée into a conducting career. In 1998, he conducted Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera La Traviata, which was recognized as the best conducting performance in Italy's Macerata Opera Festival. In 2005, in recognition of Lü Jia's prominent contribution to Italy's music culture, he was awarded the President's Cup by the President of the Italia, Giorgio Napolitano. In 2008, the La Gazza Ladra conducted by Lü Jia was named Best Opera of the Year in the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in Italy.

NCPA Chorus

NCPA Chorus was established on December 8, 2009, whose members were carefully selected from famous music schools in and out of China. Now the Chorus invites Wu Lingfen as the conductor, with many artists well-known in China and abroad giving instructions. Affiliated to NCPA, the highest palace of performing arts in China, the Chorus adheres to NCPA's guiding principles of 'for the people, for the arts, and for the world'. The Chorus mainly stages operas and concerts, and also takes part in kinds of cultural communication and arts outreach events.

Ever since its establishment, the Chorus has actively performed in more than 20 operas of NCPA production, such as NCPA's commission operas Xi Shi, The Chinese Orphan, and The Ballad of Canal, as well as other classical operas in and out of China: The White-Haired Girl, The Red Guards on Honghu Lake, Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in Algeri, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Otello, Der Fliegende Hollander, Lohengrin, Carmen, Turandot andTosca, etc. Its artistic quality receives rave acclaims from both the critics and the audience. 

Besides operas, the Chorus has participated in many grand vocal works and themed concerts, such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mahler's Symphony No.2 and No.8, and the grand music and dance epic Road to Revive, etc. As NCPA's resident chorus, it has been to Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan to participate in performances and arts exchange, both to wide acclaims.  

The Chorus has cooperated with many well-known artists ever since its establishment, receiving high praises from them all. Plácido Domingo once said it was his honor to cooperate with these talented young artists; Lorin Maazel ever praised it 'a chorus full of passion', so and so forth. On the stage of NCPA, the Chorus has cooperated with such directors as Francesca Zambello, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Chen Xinyi, Cao Qijing, Liao Xianghong, such conductors as Lorin Maazel, Daniel Oren, Lu Jia, Li Xincao, Zhang Guoyong, such vocalists as Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Inva Mula, Brandon Jovanovich, Dai Yuqiang, Wei Song, Warren Mok, He Hui, Dilbèr, Zhang Liping, to name just a few. With more than a hundred performances each year, the Chorus is surely to play an active role in the further development of NCPA.

 

Qingdao Symphony Orchestra

Qingdao Symphony Orchestra was re-established in April 2005 under the support of Qingdao Municipal Government. The Orchestra has a three-tier establishment with a total staff of 80. Mr. Zhang Guoyong and Mr. Zhu Hui, both are famous conductors in China was the Art Advisor, Music Supervisor and Art Director successively, Mr. Xu Dongxiao, a young conductor was the permanent conductor, and Ms. Liu Yuxia, a Violinist with doctor's degree, is the concertmaster of the Orchestra. The members are the graduates from various music conservatories and schools home and abroad. The Orchestra is based on the Qingdao People's Hall with 18,000 ㎡ area for office, rehearsal and performance.

Since its establishment, the Orchestra has rehearsed hundreds of symphony pieces by world famous composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak. It successfully cooperated with the famous conductors home and abroad such as Christian Edward, Zheng Xiaoying, Li Xincao, Ye Yongshi, Yu Feng, Cao Peng, Lin Yousheng, Hu Yongyan, Lin Tao and Fu Renchang, and accomplished performers such as Liu Yunzhi, Chen Yun, Liang Danan, Li Chuanyun, Liu Yang, Lu Siqing, Qin Liwei, Sheng Yuan, Yin Chengzong, Chen Sa and Zhang Hongyan. These co-operations greatly enhanced the performance of the Orchestra.

The principle of the Orchestra is 'Inheritance, development, innovation and professionalism'. Since the establishment of the Orchestra, it successfully completed the concerto for two consecutive international violin competitions in China and the 8th and 9th national violin competitions. CCTV assigned cameramen to shoot the concert conducted by Qingdao Symphony Orchestra in Qingdao and had the program periodically broadcast on music channels. The Orchestra performed three times in the National Opera House in Beijing. In May 2006, the Orchestra successfully carried out itinerant performance in the three provinces in North-East China. As a showcase of Qingdao's culture, the Orchestra assigned a quartet and an octet group to visit France and Russia, and their performances were well received by the audiences and won favorable comment by the Ministry of Culture of China. The Orchestra was awarded 'Outstanding Contribution Award' by the Russian Culture and Film Agency.

In October 2007, it was invited by the organization committee of Tongyeong International Music Festival in the ROK to stage a performance on its opening ceremony and subsequent itinerant performances, which were well received by the audience. In November, it conducted a well-prepared domestic tour in southern cities such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Nanjing and Hefei. In July 2008, it carried out another tour in Olympic related cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong under the theme of 'Olympic Music'. In these performances, the Orchestra staged a symphony piece entitled “Olympic Sailing Suite” composed by American composer Jeffrey Rona for Beijing Olympic Sailing Competition, and is the first one for which the Orchestra possesses independent copyright. In January 2009, the Orchestra performed in the Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Art Center and Harvard University in the United States which were well-received by the audience. In April 2009, it performed together with Gaoxiong Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan in a cross-strait cultural exchange program. In July 2009, the Orchestra began a domestic tour in Zhengzhou and Lanzhou under the theme of 'Affection with North-West China'.