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    The festival will last for 22 days, until April 15. World-renowned orchestras and troupes, such as Wiener Symphoniker, Indian Bollywood Film Song and Dance Co., Canadian Brass and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, will perform themed concerts.

    An opening concert led by four top conductors from home and abroad will take place at Shenzhen Concert Hall in Futian District on Saturday night. Hu Yongyan, Yu Feng, Spanish conductor David Gimenez and Albanian Oleg Arapi will conduct the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra as well as an orchestra staffed by players from 13 Belt and Road countries.

    Award-winning Egyptian pianist Mirette Hanna, suona player Zhang Qianyuan and Indian sitar player Gaurav Mazumdar will collaborate. The concert will also feature mezzo-soprano Carla Dirlikov Canales, bass-baritone Erwin Schrott, baritone Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, soprano Katherine Whyte, and tenors Shi Yijie and Yang Yang.

    To encourage concert-goers, tickets for the concerts are being sold at lower than market prices. The lowest fare for most of the concerts is around 50 to 80 yuan (US$7.30-11.70), and more than 50 percent of the seats for each concert cost less than 180 yuan, except for the concert by the Wiener Symphoniker, which will have a smaller portion of low-priced tickets.