In the whole year, 6865 performances were completed, an increase of 81.4% year-on-year, and the performance revenue was 328 million yuan, an increase of 75.4% year-on-year, an increase of 8.25% over 2019 before the epidemic... On January 17, at the 2021 municipal state-owned literary and art academy group "one group, one policy" assessment meeting held at the China Art Palace, 18 municipal state-owned literary and art academies in Shanghai jointly handed over such an answer sheet.
This year, in the face of the impact of the epidemic, the number of performances and income of shanghai theater troupes did not decrease but increased, and many theater groups, including the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, also made historic breakthroughs in the number of performances and income.
2021 marks the centenary of the Communist Party of China. A total of 11 works in Shanghai have been selected by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Stage Art Creation Project", and the symphony "Ode to the Red Flag", the Shanghai opera "Dunhuang Daughter", the acrobatic drama "Battle Shanghai", the drama "Shang Martingale", the dance drama "The Eternal Electric Wave", the ballet "White Haired Girl" and so on are all works that have achieved double harvests in the art and market.
Lu Qiming and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra playing "Ode to the Red Flag"
Shanghai also held two major theme exhibition and performance activities at the same time: "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Red Classic Repertoire Exhibition season" and "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" and "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", including folk music works "Drinking Rivers and Rivers Together", symphonic "Ode to China", ballet "Pagoda Mountain", "Shining Red Star", opera "Morning Bell", drama "Wave", acrobatic drama "Battle Shanghai", Kun opera "Own Descendants", Peking Opera "Red Agent", "Changing People", Yue opera "Mountains and Seas Love". A large number of original innovative works produced in Shanghai have been unveiled in the exhibition, using artistic vocabulary to inherit the spiritual connotation of red culture and recreate the party's century-old course of art.
This year, Shanghai made every effort to launch a resident performance brand, and the influence of "The Great World of Performing Arts" has become increasingly apparent. New resident performance projects such as the dance drama "The Eternal Electric Wave" and "Crested Ibis", the Guofeng Music Scene "Sea Folk Music", the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the acrobatic "Time and Space Journey 2" have helped the "Shanghai Culture" brand building and enhanced the soft power of the city.
The shanghai symphony orchestra "Ode to China" performance scene
With performances as the center, the number of performances and revenues have set new records
2021 is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", in the face of the impact of the epidemic, Shanghai's state-owned literary and art academies and troupes "bucked the trend", practiced the important concept of "people's city", "took performances as the central link", and achieved breakthrough results.
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has made a historic breakthrough in overall performance volume and revenue. For the first time in the history of the annual performance, it exceeded 200 performances, and the performance income exceeded 60 million yuan.
"The new round of deepening reform of state-owned literary and art academies and troupes has made guiding guidance for performances." Zhou Ping, director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, said that the shanghai symphony not only increased the number of performances, but also worked the quality of the performance itself and the coverage of the audience. While strengthening the brand building of the "Troupe Hall Music Season", we will vigorously promote new songs for newcomers and expand the radiation of performances. Tailor-made evening peak concerts for white-collar workers, a new "Music Map" series featuring teenagers was launched. The season's latest project, "Mozart's Music Blind Box", attracts a whole new audience on new channels. As a state-owned academy group, it gives full play to the public welfare attributes, sending performances, theme music party classes, art popularization lectures, etc. to campuses, communities and enterprises, and also provides music services for more citizens who love art by opening a red music exhibition with the theme of "Listening to the Echo of a Hundred Years", running a seminar for the improvement of the artistic literacy of primary and secondary school principals, and organizing a special public welfare concert for the disabled.
Also making new historical records is the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe. In the whole year, 268 performances were completed, of which the number of commercial performances in professional theaters hit a new high, an increase of 94% compared with 2019 before the epidemic, and the number of performances in professional theaters in the city increased by 84%. The annual performance revenue reached a record high of 11.929 million yuan. In addition, the number of spectators continued to grow steadily, especially the number of commercial audiences increased by 13.3% compared with 2019.
For Kunqu opera, which was once known for its "high and low, Yangchun white snow", such achievements made many experts present directly call "not easy". Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe Changgu Haohao said that Shangkun focuses on the construction of the "big world of performing arts", deepens the diversified performance mechanism, and promotes the formation of a ladder performance system from the grand theater and the small theater to the new space for performing arts. Nearly half of the troupe's performances throughout the year are arranged in the "Big World of Performing Arts" area.
Because of the advantage of "literary and artistic light cavalry", the Shanghai Judging Troupe performed as many as 2917 times a year, doubling the number of performances last year. The performance venues also cover professional theaters, bookstores, community schools, office buildings, and other forms of Yuyuan Pavilion and Pear Garden resident performances have also been developed.
As one of the most market-oriented varieties in Shanghai, the market performance of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center is even more remarkable. In 2021, the operating income of Shangdao was 94.46 million yuan, of which the performance income was 65.27 million yuan and the total income was 150 million yuan, which was a record high since the establishment of the academy. Zhang Huiqing, general manager of Shanglao, said that shanglao aims to achieve double-effect unification, adheres to the diversification of income sources, localization of production factors, and strong mechanism of cost risk control, providing more possibilities for artistic creation to grow calmly.
The dance drama "The Eternal Electric Wave" opened at the Majestic Theatre
In recent years, Shanghai has continued to expand the "source" and "dock" of performing arts. Benchmarking the world-renowned performing arts agglomeration area, the agglomeration effect of Shanghai Performing Arts World is also increasingly emerging. In 2021, there were 1723 performances in the Performing Arts World Region, doubling year-on-year and increasing by 10.07% over 2019. In addition, 11 state-owned professional theaters in the performing arts world such as the Shanghai Grand Theatre and the Majestic Theater performed 2764 times a year, introduced 328 domestic excellent plays with 1284 performances and 32 premiere plays, and the status of the premiere of the "Asian Capital of Performing Arts" was basically established.
In addition, Shanghai has made efforts to perform in residence this year, launching more residency projects on the basis of resident performances such as "Sleepless Nights", "Time and Space Journey" and "Happy Circus", further enhancing the originality and identity of Shanghai culture.
Dance Drama "The Eternal Wave"
Among them, the dance dramas "The Eternal Airwaves" and "Crested Ibis" have been performing since May 2021, and have completed 84 performances in half a year, with a box office of 34.52 million. The Guofeng Music Scene "Sea Folk Music" organically integrates national music with excellent historical buildings, empowers traditional folk music with new technologies, and creates a new landmark of Shanghai cultural tourism. Shanghai Xiqu Arts Center launched the "Jingkun Heroes" performance season, launching the performance brand of "Watching Beijing-Kunming to Heavenly Toad", and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has cultivated the habit of audiences listening to symphonies at the "Wonton Skin Concert Hall" every weekend.
Folk Music "Folk Music on the Sea"
Creation continues to exert efforts, deepen the reform of the academy and group and then start again
In addition to performances, creation and talent are also the top priorities of the state-owned theater troupe.
In 2021, in Shanghai, there will be a total of 20 stage art projects in the two batches of key literary and artistic creation projects of "centenary of the founding of the party" and "comprehensive well-off". Five works, including "The Eternal Radio Wave" and "Battle of Shanghai", were selected for the "Excellent Stage Art Exhibition celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" organized by the Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the China Federation of Literature and Literature.
In these creations, many works with influence and attention have emerged. Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe's key drama "Self-Descendants" created this year is the first large-scale revolutionary modern Kunqu opera in the history of the Shanghai Kunqu Troupe, a work of "Shanghai creation" and "Shanghai production", which was praised as "providing a new sample for how the ancient Kunqu opera can be honest and innovative to promote the creation of modern opera". In addition, the new drama "Chen Yi in Shanghai" of Shanghai Shanghai Theater was also full of performances at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, while new works such as "Hanmei" of Shanghai Huai Opera Troupe and "War Without Gun Smoke" of Shanghai Pingtan Troupe also achieved breakthroughs and innovations in red historical themes in their respective dramas.
Some new works on revolutionary historical themes have achieved communication and connection with contemporary young audiences. The "Wave" of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center has been loved by a large number of young audiences, and each round of performances has been hot at the box office, and the response after the performance is enthusiastic.
Drama "The Wave"
At the end of 2021, the plans of Shanghai major academies to create new topics in 2022 have also begun. At present, with the theme of greeting the 20th National Congress of the Party, focusing on the theme of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and adhering to the principle of "attaching equal importance to realistic themes, revolutionary themes and traditional themes", Shanghai has now formed a list of key creative projects.
Among these selected topics, Shanghai urban theme works such as sitcom "Baoxingli", Yue opera modern drama "Good Eight Lian", dance drama "Quiet Balagar River", drama "The Age of Awakening", children's drama "Song Qingling and Children" and other revolutionary and historical theme works have attracted much attention.
Last year, focusing on the "five new cities" strategy, increasing the supply of public cultural services, and performing in the five new cities has also become one of the power points of shanghai's major theaters. In 2022, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will launch a number of new creations, including original works that go deep into the five new cities and showcase local style.
In addition to the new creative plan, Shanghai will launch the 2022 annual "Performance Calendar", focusing on 8 music and dance performance seasons such as the Shanghai Ballet Haipai Ballet Season, the Shanghai Opera House 2022 Opera Performance Season, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall Music Season, 7 opera and opera theme performance seasons such as the Beijing-Kunming Qunying Yinghui, and 6 parent-child theme performance seasons such as the Traditional and Contemporary - Haipai Puppet Show Performance Season. This will also force the major theaters and troupes to formulate performance content and plans in advance, and it will become easier for tourists from all over the country and even overseas to take high-speed rail and play "flying" to Shanghai to chase dramas.