
Actress Ke Luwa rehearses the opera Eugene Onegin at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 25, 2014. As the first co-production of the Mariinsky Theatre and NCPA, Eugene Onegin will raise curtain of NCPA Opera Festival in 2014. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)

Yuan Chenye (L) and Ke Luwa rehearse the opera Eugene Onegin at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 25, 2014. As the first co-production of the Mariinsky Theatre and NCPA, Eugene Onegin will raise curtain of NCPA Opera Festival in 2014. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)

Actors rehearse the opera Eugene Onegin at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 25, 2014. As the first co-production of the Mariinsky Theatre and NCPA, Eugene Onegin will raise curtain of NCPA Opera Festival in 2014. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)

Actor Yuan Chenye rehearses the opera Eugene Onegin at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 25, 2014. As the first co-production of the Mariinsky Theatre and NCPA, Eugene Onegin will raise curtain of NCPA Opera Festival in 2014. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)

Director Alexei Stepanyuk (R) gives instruction during the rehearsal of opera Eugene Onegin at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 25, 2014. As the first co-production of the Mariinsky Theatre and NCPA, Eugene Onegin will raise curtain of NCPA Opera Festival in 2014. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)