8月6日上午，北京奥组委开闭幕式工作部部长张和平正式公布了奥运会主题歌的演唱者。他们就是出演“歌剧魅影”的英国歌手莎拉•布莱曼和中国观众非常熟悉的歌坛重量级人物刘欢。张和平表示：“开幕式将展现中国古典与现代的完美融合。”不过，开幕式点火仪式以及最后一棒火炬手的身份只能等8月8日正式开幕时才能揭晓了。

Sarah Brightman [Agencies]

British singer Sarah Brightman and China's Liu Huan will sing at Friday's opening ceremony for the Olympic Games, organisers said on Wednesday.

Brightman, best known for her appearances in shows in London's West End including "The Phantom of the Opera", will sing with Liu Huan a specially commissioned "theme song" which will make up part of the three and a half hour ceremony.

The entertainment will begin at 5:45 p.m. and the ceremony proper, featuring 15,000 participants, will follow from 8 p.m. for three and a half hours.

Zhang Heping, director of Opening and Closing Ceremonies Department of the local organising committee (BOCOG), said the ceremony would feature performing arts which "showcase the ancient and long history of the Chinese nation" as well as reflecting modern day China.

After the theme song of the ceremony there will be an address by officials and then the entry of the Olympic flag.

The athletes will then march into the stadium with their own flags -- nations will enter in Chinese alphabetical order, said Zhang.

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