Looking back on 2021, the Guangzhou Grand Theatre has set sail to stimulate the confidence of Guangzhou's performing arts industry in terms of operation, creation, education and innovation, helping the city's artistic and cultural construction, and leading the yangcheng new highland of literature and art.
Contributing to the "Guangzhou Plan" for the Recovery of the Performing Arts Industry
2021 is a key year for the performing arts industry to return to the development track. Under the premise of making every effort to normalize the prevention and control of the epidemic, the Guangzhou Opera House has taken the initiative to seek changes, taking the lead in laying out the "5G Smart Theater" and the original performance production of the theater, continuing the exploration and summary of the new business model, and expanding the functions and connotations of the theater in both horizontal and vertical directions through the innovation of scenes and content.
In 2021, the various operating indicators of the Guangzhou Opera House have rebounded steadily. The number of performances in the whole year reached 279, an increase of 60% over 2020, and the total number of audiences was about 187,000, an increase of 71% over 2020. At the same time, the theater held a total of 212 various artistic activities, with a total of 1.28 million participants. Among them, 136 online activities were held, with a total of 1.266 million people participating, and 96 offline activities were held, with a total of 16,700 people.
The Guangzhou Opera House handed over a well-achieved answer sheet last year. The persistence of a theater has re-injected confidence into the cultural and artistic field in Guangzhou, using the theater as a gear to drive performance creation, production and consumption on the right track, playing an important role in activating the performing arts industry in Guangzhou, and contributing to the recovery of the performing arts industry "Guangzhou Plan".
Building the Performing Arts "Highland" of Guangzhou's Red Culture
In 2021, the Guangzhou Opera House tried to create a "Red Art Season" for the first time, committed to building a position for Guangzhou to carry forward the new cultural style of the new era on the stage of the theater.
The "Red Art Season" of the Guangzhou Opera House introduced and performed a total of 23 red and realistic dramas, accounting for 40% of the total number of performances in the 2021 Guangzhou Art Season, with a total of 41 performances, covering opera, drama and Cantonese opera. Among them, there are revolutionary red plays such as "Flag" and "Flashing Red Star", as well as "Breathing", "Deep Sea", "Lu Yonggen" and other pillars of the Acura Republic, as well as realistic dramas such as "Avenue" and "War "Epidemic" 2020 that record the era and the Acura era. The Guangzhou Opera House has put a batch of outstanding red performances on the stage, which has played an important role in enhancing the people's strength and invigorating the national spirit.
In addition, the Guangzhou Opera House vigorously develops the soft power of the theater, and has successively launched a series of original plays such as "Activities Change into Human Form", "Breathing", "Existence and Time 2.0", "When the Mountain Flowers Are Blooming", using "Guangzhou Original Power" to blow the upward horn and using the "Guangzhou City Stage" to tell Chinese stories.
Continuously improve the humanistic qualities of Guangzhou citizens
While enriching the spiritual life of the people and enlivening the Performing Arts Market in Guangzhou, the Guangzhou Opera House has deeply expanded the educational functions of the theater and helped the cultivation of artistic talents and the improvement of humanistic qualities in Guangzhou.
Since 2011, guangzhou opera house has cultivated more than 13,616 young artistic talents such as choral, ballet and instrumental music. In 2021, the Eight-Year-Old Guangzhou Opera House Children's Choir not only won the first prize in the children's voice group of the 11th World Choir Competition (Belgium), but also performed on CCTV's "Voice of Tianlai New Year Children's Chorus Concert" for the second time, showing the stage style of Yangcheng teenagers to the whole country and even the world.
The Guangzhou Opera House vigorously supports young people and activates the main force of literary and artistic creation. In 2021, the fifth season of "Monday Star Theater" will be launched, and 6 original plays will be jointly produced and presented with local university art groups in Guangzhou to provide a professional display stage for young creators; the "Art and Culture Exchange α Program" will give full play to the advantages of the Silk Road Theater Alliance and organize 9 academic seminars with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China to promote the sharing of international vision and cultural exchanges among young art managers.
Since its establishment, the Guangzhou Grand Theatre has deeply cultivated the popularization of art and culture among the whole people, and its public art education brand "Give a Day to Art" has carried out more than 2,000 art popularization activities so far, with a total of 780,000 participants in offline activities and more than 2.3 million online activities. In 2021, with the help of high-tech and the Internet, the Guangzhou Opera House will create the first online art popularization column "Roaming Classics" with the help of high-tech and internet, and the first online art popularization column "Roaming Classics" in China, which has launched 79 programs and attracted more than 1.4 million views, so that art resources can benefit art lovers in every corner.
Accumulate experience for the innovation and development of literature and art in Guangzhou
Innovation is the life of literature and art. Guangzhou Grand Theatre in 2021 in the country to take the lead in launching the "new realm of literature and art", with the help of 5G, cloud, ultra-high-definition video and other technologies of integration empowerment, Guangzhou Grand Theatre respectively with multi-party enterprises to open up the literary and art academy, video platform and other aspects of the industrial chain, to provide the audience with 5G + AI free perspective and multi-perspective, 5G + VR slow live broadcast and other innovative forms of performance content, through tv, mobile phone, VR three screens to bring the audience an independent and immersive performance experience.
Not only in the application of technology bold innovation, Guangzhou Opera House also actively innovated the artistic content, opened up artistic language, and created an original experimental drama "Existence and Time 2.0" that subverted the traditional viewing relationship, and sold out 40 performances.
Highlighting Guangzhou's "international style" in the field of performing arts culture
In 2021, the Guangzhou Opera House insists on opening up windows to multicultural communication for audiences and practitioners, and holds cross-regional art and cultural exchange activities such as the Guangzhou (International) Performing Arts Fair and the Hong Kong Weekly Exhibition and Performance Activities as scheduled. Among them, the 2021 Guangzhou (International) Performing Arts Fair held more than 20 cultural and artistic activities, forums, promotion meetings, etc., attracting more than 400 representatives from 45 countries at home and abroad. At the same time, more than 20 theaters from 11 cities in the Greater Bay Area gathered at the Guangzhou Grand Theatre for the first time in the name of the "Greater Bay Area" to exchange views at the first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Theater Conference.
Nowadays, the Guangzhou Opera House regards "basing itself on the Pearl River Delta and cooperating with the Greater Bay Area" as its strategic positioning, and through the aggregation of artistic resources, it will jointly build a prosperous performing arts, highlighting Guangzhou's "international model" in the field of performing arts culture.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Zhang Suqin
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Li Yani