China's National Centre of Performing Arts (NCPA) announced on Tuesday that it is going to broadcast a concert simultaneously online on Nov. 3, for the first time, to mark the first founding anniversary of its official website, Chncpa.Org.

Nine popular Chinese internet portals including Sina.Com, Sohu.Com, and QQ.Com will also make the live broadcast at the same time, said a NCPA official at a press conference.

The national theater will webcast live more concerts such as its own New Year's Concert, to be conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, in the future, if it is well received this time, said the official. He said that the webcasting is aimed to enable art fans to appreciate world-class art performances at home.

The November 3 concert will be composed of such classics like "Largo al factotum (Make way for the factotum)", an aria from "The Barber of Seville" by Giaocchino Rossini, and the Toreador Song from opera "Carmen" by Geoges Bizet and George Gershwin's piano piece "Rhapsody in Blue".

Well-known Chinese singer Dai Yuqiang and violinist Lu Siqing will participate in the concert, according to the official.

The National Centre of Performing Arts, which was designed by French architect Paul Andreu, is one of the city's landmark buildings, with its surrealistic style resembling an egg rising from a pond of water.

Over the past year, the national theater, equipped with Asia's largest pipe organ, has held a series of folk music concerts, operas and other art performances.

Moreover, its weekend musical lectures have been very popular among art fans.

(Xinhua News Agency October 30, 2008)