A love that spans the ages of people and cranes, a perilous conspiracy, a tribute to life that transcends races, a legend about love, loyalty, intrigue, and bravery, a legend about the symbiosis of all things and the harmony of nature Picture scroll… From July 8th to 10th, the original fantasy musical “Love of Cranes” will premiere at the Taihu Theater of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
The musical “Love of Cranes” is an original cultural and creative work dedicated to excavating the rich ecological treasures of the Chinese nation and condensing Chinese spirit, Chinese values and Chinese power. The “Octagonal Bronze Mirror” is a dramatic clue. Through a romantic interpretation full of fantasy, it tells a love-hate entanglement between the two races of humans and cranes, showing the splendid and unique “bowl” culture in Chinese civilization.
Diverse musical styles compose romantic poems in Daliao and Liaoning
It took three years to create the script and music. The script combines reality and mythology, and integrates mythological stories with the history and culture of ancient China’s Daliao and Liao Dynasty, full of romanticism and fantasy. Music, as the soul of the play, is a narrator full of romantic poetry. Through the flexible use of various musical styles, the vivid and distinctive characters in the play are successfully shaped. “Love of Cranes” follows the structural rules of musical drama, displays the beauty of “elegant, delicate and gorgeous” music with a variety of musical styles, and focuses on the display of composition skills and singing skills, making it complex in melody, broad in music, and free and rich in rhythm changes. At the same time, it also adopts the multi-dimensional music texture of “popular, rough, vigorous and simple”, reflecting the richness of the drama. According to reports, the first leading song of the play 8 was released on June 28 on platforms such as QQ Music, Kugou, and Kuwo.
A total of 24 songs have been written in the whole play, and the production team has a strong lineup. The producer and chief director of the play, Li Gang, the dean of Beijing Modern Music Training Institute, is in charge of screenwriting, lyric writing, and composing. The arrangers are invited to domestic first-line musicians and Beiyin teachers. Fang Hui joined, and the mixing was performed by Wang Lei, a well-known domestic recording mixer and dean of Beiyin Academy of Music and Technology, and the recording was performed by Wang Yupeng, an outstanding graduate of Beiyin. Recorded by the International Chief Philharmonic Orchestra, other musical instruments were also recorded by domestic first-line musicians and many outstanding teachers from Beiyin.
Condensing unique visual symbols to create fantastic scenery
The visual style of “Love of Cranes” creatively integrates traditional Chinese freehand aesthetics, neutral stage, and freehand set design styles into the base of realism, reflecting the ingeniousness of being inclusive and inclusive, and using condensed and unique visual symbols to create Fantastic panorama.
In terms of stage beauty and props, through the investigation and research of Khitan culture, the play extracted several important elements for artistic processing, which will convey uniquely recognizable Khitan cultural symbols and create a fantastic and romantic scene.
Director Li Gang said, “We have selected an important cultural relic representing Khitan culture – the octagonal bronze mirror as the visual fulcrum of the stage beauty, forming the visual center image of the Khitan Palace in the play; we have extracted the elements of crane feathers to create atmosphere, create a poetic time and space, make It has become an important element of the grand scene of the Babo Wetland; in the treatment of the reindeer horns and the presentation of the sacrificial scenes, the romantic aesthetic idea is used to depict the wonderful picture scroll with the unique color of the northern nomads, creating a unique scenery of the grassland and wilderness. “
In terms of clothing, the play also maximizes the function of clothing modeling for character building and plot promotion. For example, the sacrifice scenes, the night banquet in the Liao Palace, and the scenes of choosing concubines from various tribes are highlighted by the bright colors and styles of the costumes, creating a gorgeous picture scroll that travels between reality and fantasy.
Artistic creation depicting a symbiotic ecological vision
Director Li Gang said that “Love of Cranes” is a work he created to find the roots of culture, an affectionate hymn dedicated to his hometown, and an important practical play of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles at the grassroots level.
This is an ecological legend of the symbiosis of all things, advocating the universal value of truth, goodness and beauty, taking ecological protection and the harmonious symbiosis of all things as the main theme of the play, and pinning the hope and vision for the growth of all things and a beautiful world. It is believed that this “Love of Crane”, which is based on the Khitan bowl culture and is based on the ideal of natural harmony, will surely stand in the forest of local Chinese original musicals with its distinctive features and styles.
“Love of Cranes” premiered at the Taihu Theater of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, and will be the first performance by the Beijing Sub-Center after this round of epidemic prevention and control work. After that, the play will start to perform in Changchun, Baicheng, Da’an and other places in Jilin, as well as a national tour.