The new performance season and the new music season have opened one after another.Fly into the homes of ordinary people
Caption: Xu Zhong is commanding Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai
Last night, the conductor Xu Zhong headed the Shanghai Opera House and joined hands with the soprano He Hui to present to the Shencheng audience the long-running “Twin Stars”, “Country Knights” and “Harlequins” on the world opera stage. The curtains of the new performance season of the Shanghai Grand Theater “China Zhengyou Opera” and the new performance season of the Shanghai Opera House. Tonight, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s music director and conductor Yu Long will perform the orchestra with Ye Xiaogang and Mahler’s “Song of the Earth” as the opening of the new season.
At the same time, SAIC Shanghai Cultural Plaza and Oriental Art Center also announced the menu for the year-end performance season and the new performance season, including self-made plays, Sino-foreign cooperative exchange plays, and various art education popularization activities. Major theaters and orchestras have successively opened new performance seasons or music seasons, sending signals to the outside world that the performing arts market is slowly recovering and mainland theaters are recovering in an orderly manner.
Rooted in tradition
Throughout the major new performance seasons and new music seasons, “produced in China” and “based on tradition” have become the two key words. More and more creators seek inspiration from Chinese traditional cultural genes, explore themes, and tell Chinese stories from a modern perspective.
In the “Premier Show” unit of the new performance season of the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the original Peking Opera Symphony Suite “Beijing Grand Canal”, Chinese Music “Dunhuang · Ode to Mercy-An Hearable Silk Road”, and the dance poem ” Only this green and green”-the dance painting “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”, the Liantai Opera “Thunderstorm” and “After the Thunderstorm”…… What unfolds is a profound historical picture scroll showing the power of traditional Chinese culture.
Caption: Night view data of Shanghai Grand Theater Photographed by Guo Xinyang
Tonight, Ye Xiaogang and Mahler’s “Song of the Earth”, which opened for the opening of the new music season, reproduce the poetic dialogue in the second DG album that was turned in and recorded. Although the two “Songs of the Earth” both use Tang poems as the text, Mahler expressed his pain and disappointment with the disillusionment of spirit by “advancing as a retreat”, while Ye Xiaogang “advancing with retreat”, full of a positive attitude towards life. The dramas on the same stage have completely different musical expressions, allowing the audience to experience the tragic and moody in contrast. Also drawn from ancient Chinese literature is “Song Ci·Yinshi” written in symphonic tunes inspired by Song Ci, which explores the aesthetic height of Song Ci in the world culture and the advocacy of the spirit of freedom.
The year-end performance season of the Cultural Square focuses on the adaptation of literary masterpieces. The heavyweight dramas “A Dream of Red Mansions” and “Four Generations” produced by the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center and the National Theatre of China introduce the immortal charm of literary classics into the all-encompassing theater stage and reproduce the group portraits of national life in different eras.
Cloud work together
Affected by the international epidemic, the introduction of overseas original dramas is still difficult, but the exchanges between the Chinese stage and the world‘s performing arts have not stopped because of this.
In order to present the pure Italian flavor of the operas “Country Knight” and “Harlequin”, the Shanghai Opera House specially invited the British opera director Martin Constantine and other international senior vocal directors and language directors to provide a full range of “cloud guidance” for the main creative cast team “. The Chinese original musical “Disqualification in the World” also assembled an international first-line creative team, and invited American Broadway star composer Frank Wildhorn and British stage design master Leslie Tevers to join.
Caption: “Country Knight” performance photo by Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death. The Shanghai Symphony will jointly produce the English opera “The Prodigal Son’s Journey” in conjunction with the Beijing International Music Festival. Stravinsky’s ballet music “Perushka” will also be staged, showing the composer’s conciseness, restraint and reflection on the long path of neoclassicism. In addition, the audience can also look forward to seeing the long-lost world-class artists in the second half of Shanghai Jiao’s new music season, such as Augustine Dume, Sergey Nakariakov, Leonidas Ka Wax et al.
In the new season menu just announced by the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, the name of Italian flute player Enrico Sartori is on the list. The former flute principal of Milan’s La Scala Opera Orchestra will work with guitarist Daniel de Francis to perform works by composers such as Paganini, Giuliani, Bartok, Piazzolla, and show flute and guitar doubles. Ensemble the charm. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan and Zhao Yue)
Reporter’s Notes: Art Empowers the Surroundings
In order to bring the theater closer to the people’s life, the Shanghai Grand Theater re-outlined the dome, showing the architectural concept of “between heaven and earth” and opening the “art palace” to invite guests. In the energetic propaganda film, the “wind-like girl” wearing red “playing” flying shoes ran across the alley, across the street, across the square, and finally into the grand theater. The young voice echoed in her ears: “Not The theater is on the way to the theater.”
Caption: Night view data of Shanghai Concert Hall Photographed by Guo Xinyang
The new music season is released. The old neighbors in the Hengfu style area and the white-collar workers in the surrounding office buildings are most concerned about the latest menu at the peak of the music evening. In the evening rush hour, it is very affordable to use the traffic jam time to exchange for a concert, and they have long regarded the music evening rush hour and music map classroom as the spiritual “private land” of city life. The eight new “Evening Rush” themes and four “Music Map Classes” newly launched in the new music season, from “Fighting Qin”, “4GUYS”, “Humor” to “Papa Haydn’s Birthday Party” and “Music Symposium in the Palace of Yangxin” “, just looking at the film list is exciting.
In the era of normalization of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic, theaters are also quietly changing. It is not just a beam of lights and a stage. The extension of theaters is constantly extending and its functions are becoming more and more diverse. It is more like a gathering place of artistic energy, located in different corners of the city. Provide a spiritual rest station for surrounding residents and urban travelers. (Zhu Yuan)
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