The Shanghai Grand Theater, an arts complex in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, is preparing to celebrate its 25th anniversary next month. The building houses the Shanghai Opera House and other prestigious performing companies. Designed by French architect Jean-Marie Charpentier together with the Institute of Architectural Design of Eastern China, the theater first opened on August 27, 1998, and has since staged performances of operas, musicals, ballets, symphonies, chamber music and Chinese operas.