The Spring Festival Lantern National Centre for the Performing Arts will present 20 sets of 31 high-quality performances

The Spring Festival Lantern National Centre for the Performing Arts will present 20 sets of 31 boutique performances courtesy of the Grand Theatre

BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- With the Chinese New Year approaching, the National Centre for the Performing Arts will send blessings to the audience from February 2 (the second day of the first lunar month) to February 15, 2022 (the fifteenth day of the first month), bringing 20 31 artistic performances to the audience.

According to reports, from February 2 to 3, the Chinese Opera and Dance Theater "Li Bai" will be on the stage of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, recreating the legendary life of the world's poetry immortals and appreciating the feelings of home and country under the arrogance and arrogance. From February 5th to 6th, the Chinese Opera and Dance Theater dance drama "Confucius" will recreate the bumpy return of a generation of sages who cannot seek mercy. Through the millennia, the road of the "Great Avenue" is now a long way away, and the Analects of the Hundred Ages are born, leading the audience to approach the "world of datong" that Confucius pursued all his life.

Five stars in the East, fortunately not forgotten. From February 11th to 13th, Beijing Performing Arts Group's large-scale dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" will be staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera House. The beating drums, the gorgeous dance, the reproduction of the moving national treasure legend, the dance of the magnificent western legend.

The Spring Festival Lantern National Centre for the Performing Arts will present 20 sets of 31 boutique performances courtesy of the Grand Theatre

From the fifth to the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, the Beijing Wind Symphony Orchestra will bring two Chinese New Year concerts. On the 5th, the "Radsky in Progress" concert was conducted by Li Bowei, who played well-known Western classics such as "Hussar Overture", "Cannon in D major", "Locomotive Polka" and so on. On the 6th, the "Flying Snow Welcomes Spring" concert was conducted by Li Fangfang, and the first half selected "Spring Festival Overture", "Ode to pear blossoms", "Yao Dance Music" and other famous Chinese songs, and in the second half, "The Sound of Spring", "Blue Rhapsody", "West District Story" and other relaxed and happy Western masterpieces will be performed.

On February 12, the Beijing Chinese Orchestra 'Ice and Snow Journey' Winter Olympics Theme Concert will kick off in the "Festival Overture", and The well-known music such as "Across the Ocean" from France, "To the Lake of Liusheng" from Switzerland, "Santa Rukia" from Italy, "Serenade" from Austria, "Dragnet Minor" from Japan, "Cargo Lang & Kalinka" from Russia and "Arirang" from South Korea will be played. This is a world music event that embodies the enthusiasm and grace of the host, symbolizing friendship, peace and unity.

From 12 to 13 February, The Rose Life: The National Centre for the Performing Arts Choir's Classic Love Songs Concert will be staged in the Little Theatre. This concert closely follows the theme of love, the first half of the selection of "Rose Life", "My Lover Is Like a Red Rose", "Pigeon" and other Western classic love songs, film and television interludes "Moon River", "My Sincere Lover"; the second half will perform "A Lovely Rose", "Kangding Love Song", "The Girl Opposite Looks Over", "On the Side of the Water", "The Moon Represents My Heart" and other Chinese golden songs, depicting the appearance of love in different countries and different eras with songs.

On February 13th, conductor Liu Ju will conduct the Symphony Orchestra of the National Ballet of China and join hands with the performer Zhang Qianyuan to bring you a festive and peaceful "Lantern Festival" Concert of the Symphony Orchestra of the National Ballet of China. In this concert, you will enjoy excerpts from the dance drama "Flowers Like Flowers", Shandong folk music, "Yanhuang Customs" and other popular Chinese songs full of strong ethnic customs, interpreting the colorful characteristics and unique charm of Chinese folk music in a variety of styles. In addition, the overture to the opera "The Bat", the suite "Carmen", the fantasy overture of "Romeo and Juliet" and the suite of the ballet "Swan Lake" will also be played on the eve of the Lantern Festival!

On February 15, at the end of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger in 2022, the Central Chinese Orchestra will recreate a musical memory of 24 years ago with a specially planned "Nongyin Tiger Howling" Lantern Festival Concert. In the first half of the concert, the repertoire of 1998 was selected, and in the second half, zhao cong, Feng Mantian and many other folk music masters brought contemporary masterpieces that showed the innovation of folk music. The combination of new folk music and old classics, and the gathering of famous artists, is the opening of the "Chinese Feelings and Folk Music Masters" on the occasion of the Lantern Festival throughout the year.

Step onto the time machine and feel the good memories of your childhood. The National Centre for the Performing Arts has prepared a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve for young audiences.

From February 2nd to 3rd, conductor Wang Yongji will conduct the China Film Orchestra and reunite with classic screen cartoon images such as Monkey King, Huluwa, Black Cat Sheriff, Nezha and other classic screen cartoon images that have accompanied generations of people to grow up, such as "Childhood Projector - Chinese Film Orchestra New Year Audiovisual Symphony Concert", and relive your childhood memories in familiar animation music. This audiovisual symphony concert has obtained the genuine authorization of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, which is innovative and integrated on the basis of "reproduction", and adopts the amazing combination of symphony and characteristic Chinese national instruments to present you with the beauty of the fusion of Chinese and Western music.

From February 4th to February 6th, the China Puppet Art Theater will bring a large-scale mythological puppet drama "True and False Sun Wukong". In the play, there are not only the scene changes of heaven entering the sea, the seventy-two changes of Qi Tian Dasheng, the duel between true and false Sun Wukong, but also the graceful and colorful dragon girl dancing, and the real and illusory underwater world, both warm martial arts scenes and group dance performances with artistic beauty. The performing artists of the China Puppet Art Theater showed the magical charm of traditional puppet art through artistic processing with exquisite traditional cane-head puppet table acting methods.

From February 12 to 13, the China Puppet Art Theatre will also bring a large-scale children's stage play "Three Letters". The drama was created and rehearsed according to the initiative of "picking up paper and pencil, seeing words as they are" launched by several junior high school students in Beijing during the epidemic in 2020. The drama dialogues history, heroes, and the future through three letters, and shows the power of faith, belief, and faith in three stories based on real events. The drama is bold and innovative in the production of scenes and props, and strives for excellence in stage choreography, which not only truly restores the scenes of war, but also constructs a psychological space full of human color. The beautiful and cheerful crested ibis dance coupled with the strong sense of rhythm of modern music added a strong visual and auditory impact to this drama, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the "aura" of Hollywood blockbusters.

Watching big dramas has always been the traditional new year custom of Chinese to welcome the Lunar New Year. The Peking Opera of the National Centre for the Performing Arts celebrates the Spring Festival and will be sung from the second to the sixth day of the Chinese New Year. Many famous Peking opera artists in Beijing Opera House have led "Mu Guiying Hanging Commander", "Red Mane Horse", "Shilang Visiting Mother", "Red Lady", "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", a classic of genres and auspicious plays.

In addition, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Weekend Concert will accompany the audience to celebrate the New Year as always during the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year on February 6th, Ice and Snow Dream and Winter Olympic Covenant specially planned to accompany the Winter Olympics and Celebrate the New Year - Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Theme Concert, conductor Zhang Bingbing and the China Film Orchestra will bring "Olympic Horn", "Skating Round Dance", "Snow Child", "City of Music", "Winter Olympics Theme Song Ensemble" and other works, so that the audience can feel the vitality of ice and snow sports and the charm of music in the Spring Festival and the double celebration festival of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. On February 13th, the weekend concert Chinese National Music Series Spring Warm Fragrance - National Orchestra Works Concert by conductor Ge Yanan and China Radio Chinese Orchestra brought to the audience "Spring Festival Overture", "Shangyuan Festival", "Snow Lantern on the Fifteenth Day of the First Month", "Harvest Gong and Drum" and other seven national orchestral works depicting the spring return to the earth, the recovery of all things, the new spring tiger leaping dragon, full of vitality. (End)