The theater is a city's cultural "living room" and the epitome of a city's cultural construction. If you want to learn about the roots of a city, visit her theater.
In 2021, Quanzhou Grand Theatre once again demonstrated its unique value and responsibility. This year, "Quanzhou: Song and Yuan China's World Marine Trade Center" successfully applied for heritage, riding on this strong east wind, Quanzhou Grand Theater accelerated its integration into the overall situation of urban development, blended with this thousand-year-old city, and told the story of Quanzhou with unique cultural and artistic resources.
In the past year, nearly 70,000 audiences have walked into this elegant art hall with the design theme of "Hai Silk Movement" and enjoyed more than 100 high-quality performances, including Chen Peisi, Yang Lixin, Dai Yuqiang, Lu Siqing, Zhu Jiejing and many other top domestic artists, as well as the National Peking Theatre, the National Drama Theatre of China, the Central National Song and Dance Troupe, the Central Ballet, the Shaanxi People's Art Theater, the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe, the Shanghai Ballet and other top domestic theaters and troupes dedicated wonderful performances. The prosperity of the cultural market has also quietly changed people's spiritual life, and going into the theater to watch performances is becoming a new fashion, constantly improving the cultural taste of the city.
Luo Yan, general manager of Quanzhou Grand Theater Operation management Co., Ltd., said that in the two years since the opening operation, Quanzhou Grand Theater has deeply cultivated the soil of Quanzhou culture and art, relying on rich cultural and artistic resources, presenting hundreds of high-quality performances at home and abroad for the general public every year, so that Quanzhou audiences can enjoy a high-quality "cultural feast", greatly enriching the spiritual and cultural life of citizens, and also making their own contributions to "Haisi Famous City, IntelligentLy Built Strong City, and Quality Quanzhou".
Quanzhou Grand Theatre performed the play "The Eternal Wave"
Quanzhou Normal University and Quanzhou Grand Theater Graduate Student Joint Training Base Signed and Awarded Ceremony
Empower party building
Original art party class brand
On stage, the actors shared the creative process and historical background of "Red Detachment of Women"; offstage, party members from more than 20 party organizations were immersed in it... In March last year, an art party class with the distinctive characteristics of the Quanzhou Grand Theater was "lectured".
The main speakers of the party class were representatives of actors from the National Ballet of China, who combined their performance experiences and shared the classic red party history stories. Feng Ying, director of the National Ballet of China, said that this well-known Chinese ballet has a landmark significance and has left indelible memories for generations.
Hearing the emotion, more than 200 party members and more than 100 representatives of teachers and students of primary and secondary schools at the scene could not help but applaud. "Using works of art to tell the story of party history well, unique party lessons have improved quality and effect." This is the true feeling of a grassroots party member who participated in the art party class.
The art party class is the brightest party building brand of Quanzhou Grand Theater. Over the past year, the Quanzhou Grand Theater has adhered to the leadership of party building, continuously introduced excellent domestic red classic plays, "Striving for a Hundred Years and Setting Sail for a New Journey" large-scale audio-visual symphony concerts, "The Night of the Three Bays", "The Eternal Electric Wave" and other red art performances, which have attracted widespread attention; in the past year, the Quanzhou Grand Theater has kept in mind its original mission, cast the soul of literature and art, continued to build the brand of art party lessons, integrated political and artistic nature, made party history "alive", and constantly promoted the study and education of party history to go deeper and more concrete.
Blended with Quanzhou water milk
Art makes cities better
In the late autumn of last year, the small mountain bamboo in the ancient city was a little more quiet. As night fell, the melodious sound of the guqin was heard, and the residents of the ancient city came one after another.
Playing with the strings is Dai Xiaolian, a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a guqin artist, who is interacting with Quanzhou guqin lovers and meeting friends with the piano. This ingenious art sharing meeting opened the "Beautiful Music Season" of Quanzhou Grand Theatre in 2021. With the theme of "Music, Make Everything Better", the music season brought together 14 wonderful musical feasts in more than two months, ranging from classical music to modern bel canto, from oriental music to the collision of East and West.
"You can enjoy elegant art at the doorstep of your home, so that the masses can face the artist face to face, which not only broadens their horizons, but also cultivates their sentiments." Mr. Zhuang, a citizen, has also become a guqin fan, and from time to time he invites friends to go to the Quanzhou Grand Theater to enjoy the performance.
It is worth mentioning that in the past year, Quanzhou Grand Theater has also created a "Happy Spring and Summer" performance season, shouldering the responsibility of carrying forward the main theme of the times with high-quality performances, committed to building a high-end art brand in Quanzhou, and contributing its own strength to the new era of endeavor.
As a high-end art temple in Quanzhou, Quanzhou Grand Theatre has also vigorously promoted the popularization of art, creating high-end art public welfare brands such as "Repertoire Visiting Class", "Master Class" and "Celebrity Meeting", which has attracted the active participation of citizens and students. The top cultural temple gives citizens and friends the opportunity to feel art up close, effectively promotes the coverage of art popularization, injects more cultural vitality into this thousand-year-old city, and promotes the quality of the city to a higher level.
On December 8 last year, quanzhou grand theater organized outstanding students of the youth choir to sing "My Motherland and Me" with Dai Yuqiang and outstanding singers, pushing the performance to a climax. At the end of December last year, the interactive workshop of the classic ballet "Swan Lake" of Shanghai Ballet was successfully held, and Zhang Yao, a national first-class actor, shared with everyone the story behind the scenes of "Swan Lake", and also led citizens and friends to experience a ballet in an "immersive" way. "Only the Quanzhou Grand Theater can make us 'zero distance' from elegant art and help cultivate people's sentiments." A citizen who attended the event said.
Show the responsibility of central enterprises
Create a new highland for culture and art
Literature and art bear the responsibility of becoming a weathered person. He who cultivates virtue must first establish himself; he who casts the soul bacon must first cast himself. In the past year, Quanzhou Grand Theater has actively fulfilled the social responsibilities of cultural central enterprises, actively served Quanzhou's cultural development strategy, and strived to create a new highland for culture and art.
In December last year, Quanzhou Normal University and Quanzhou Grand Theater Graduate Student Joint Training Base Signing Ceremony was held, and the two sides established the "Quanzhou Normal University Graduate Student Joint Training Base", which will focus on cultivating application-oriented talents that meet the cultural needs of the new era and send more cultural industry elites to the cultural and artistic industry in Quanzhou and even the whole country.
In the process of integrating into the overall situation of urban development, Quanzhou Grand Theater not only drives the overall upward development of the cultural and artistic industry with its own advantages in cultural and artistic resources, but also actively participates in social undertakings.
In March last year, Quanzhou Grand Theater Operation and Management Co., Ltd. established a women's committee under the guidance of the Quanzhou Women's Federation to provide a new platform and strength for the public welfare education of women and children in Quanzhou and to promote the all-round development of women and children.
The new era calls for new deeds, and the new journey writes a new chapter. This year, the Quanzhou Grand Theatre will continue to present more high-quality performances for the people of Quanzhou and even the whole province, mainly including the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" of the "National Treasure Series", the national chao music drama "Han Xizai Night Feast", the dance poetry drama "Only This Green", the "Zijin Chen Series" musical "Hidden Corner", the musical "The Silent Truth", as well as the stage drama "Sunrise" gathered by big coffee, Yang Liping's work "Spring Festival", the dance drama "Confucius", the original national musical dance drama "Dream of the Red Chamber" and more than 160 performances.
Luo Yan said that in the future, Quanzhou Grand Theatre will insist on introducing more high-quality art performances, adhere to the work of popularizing art and benefiting the people, rely on the international theater exchange platform of "Chinese Theater Line", and use art to serve Quanzhou to build a historical city that reflects ancient and modern times, serve Quanzhou to build a 21st century Maritime Silk Road Pilot Zone, and serve Quanzhou's "Sea Silk" culture to the world. (Correspondent Chen Kun Quanzhou Evening News reporter Chen Zhiyong)