Lively Peking Opera gongs and drums, beautiful Chinese style dances, magnificent choral symphonies, wonderful classic dramas... During this year's Spring Festival, the National Academy of Arts troupe used excellent works of various art types to send New Year greetings to audiences across the country and even countries around the world in the form of "offline performances and online stages".
The artistic "national team" collectively pays homage to the New Year
In order to better display the good creative status and spiritual outlook of the literary and art units directly under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism under the inspiration of General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply to the letter, and continuously enrich the needs of the broad masses of the people for a better life at home during the epidemic prevention and control period, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's exclusive stage art line staging platform - "Literature and Art China" launched a Special Program for the New Year on February 1, 2022 (the first day of the first lunar month), and artists from the highest hall of national art and well-known literary and art workers from all walks of life paid tribute to the people of the whole country.
The dance "The Whole Heaven Celebrates Chinese Spring", the soundtrack poem recitation "In the Arms of Spring", the short drama "The New Year in the Guanghan Palace"... The Special Chinese New Year Program is not only a multitude of famous and rookies and a complete variety of artworks, but also a collective appearance of the "National Team" of the art unit directly under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism - the top ten National Art Academy Troupes (National Peking Theatre, China National Drama Theatre, China Opera and Dance Theatre, China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd., China Symphony Orchestra, China Children's Art Theatre, Central Opera House, Central Ballet, Central Chinese Orchestra, China Coal Mine Cultural and Labor Troupe), two state-level art institutions (National Art Museum of China, China National Academy of Painting), A state-level art research institute (China Academy of Arts) jointly bids farewell to the audience and fans in the program.
After the "Literature and Art China" New Year special program was broadcast, it quickly became a hot search topic on major platforms. According to incomplete statistics, as of 3 p.m. on February 8, the number of topics on the whole network reached 250 million, the number of live views exceeded 10 million, and the total number of video views reached 62 million. "It's like being in a temple of art." "We must inherit such an excellent traditional culture as opera." "That's cultural confidence." "This program is the top stream of the Spring Festival Gala of various stations..." Netizens on various platforms continued to praise, and the popularity of the program continued to heat up.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, at present, the mainland embassies and consulates in more than 30 countries, overseas Chinese cultural centers, and overseas tourism offices have successively broadcast videos of the "Literature and Art China" New Year special program through official websites and social media, bringing the New Year greetings of the art "national team" to people around the world.
Offline performances:
"Zero distance" to the audience to say goodbye to the New Year
In addition to collective action, the National Academy of Arts also prepared their own Chinese New Year art gifts. On the stages of various theaters in the capital, artists pay their respects to the audience "zero distance".
Over the New Year, sing a big drama. The National Peking Opera House launched the 2022 Chinese New Year series of performances and Spring Festival chapters, from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater in Beijing prepared a lively and wonderful drama for the audience and fans. The performance began with the "Peking Opera Famous Drama Famous Section Concert", which gathered three generations of old, middle-aged and young artists and included many famous dramas, and after that, wonderful plays and performances such as "The Haunting of the Heavenly Palace", "The Phoenix Returns the Nest", "The Martial Arts Folding Drama Special", "Shilang Visiting the Mother", "Suolin Bag" and other wonderful plays and performances have successively appeared.
Successfully integrating historical facts with dance art, li Bai's dance drama "Li Bai", which has struggled and wandered between "Tao" and "potential" all his life, and Confucius, which interprets Confucius's life experience around the world, are the two "blockbusters" of the Chinese Opera and Dance Theatre. During the Spring Festival holiday, the artists of the China Opera and Dance Theatre presented these two gorgeous dance works with oriental classical meaning to the audience at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
On February 6th, the "Celebrating the New Year" concert, the first stop of 100 concerts of China Oriental Performing Arts Group, was successfully held at Beijing Poly Theater. The concert was performed by the China Oriental Folk Orchestra under the China Oriental Performing Arts Group, with conductor Yang Chunlin as the conductor, Gao Hua, bamboo flute player He Qingsong, pipa player Liu Feng, erhu player Zhang Ye, and Jinghu player Ji Ji joining in. It is worth mentioning that the performance repertoire is based on the theme of "Spring", creating a festive and peaceful Spring Festival atmosphere for the audience.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the China Children's Art Theatre opened the first round of performances in the Year of the Tiger at the China Children's Theater and the Holiday Classic Small Theater in Beijing. Parent-child musical "Where is the little butterfly's mother?" " and the children's drama "The Little Mermaid" as the performance of the 8th Chinese New Year Children's Drama Carnival, with wonderful performances to send joy to the audience. With the theme of "'Art' Heart to the Future", this year's carnival highlights the integration of various elements such as "drama + activities" and "festival + Olympics", while performing wonderful plays, it also invites the audience who enter the theater to perform the gesture dance of the Winter Olympic slogan promotion song "Together to the Future" during the Spring Festival, and designs the New Year Wishing Wall with the theme of the Winter Olympics, which has won the affirmation and love of audiences large and small.
Livecast:
Feel the artistic atmosphere without leaving home
The National Academy of Arts also prepared their own "cloud" New Year's greetings, which were staged on various platforms to allow more audiences to feel the artistic atmosphere of spring without leaving their homes.
During the Spring Festival in 2021, the performance of Peking Opera "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" set off a wave of viewing on the whole network. From January 25 to February 15 this year, the National Peking Opera House once again joined hands with China Mobile Migu Company to jointly create a 5G+4K classic drama "Dragon Phoenix Chengxiang" starring Peking Opera performance artists Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu. The performance was upgraded again, not only providing nine perspectives, integrating a variety of real-time interactive modes such as cloud boxes, cloud shouting, and cloud tips, but also bringing the first "Digital Homo sapiens" student You Zixi to compose a new chapter of "5G Peking Opera Meta universe". In addition to the main repertoire, this year also produced a special micro-documentary "Yu Yin Around the Beam", a guided variety show "Xiqu Zheng Youth" and a VR series feature film "Peking Opera Life", which comprehensively interpreted the Peking Opera "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" and the stories in front of and behind the scenes.
▲ Poster of the National Peking Theatre's "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang"
Following the launch of the "New Year Online Exhibition Season" during the Spring Festival last year, the National Drama Theatre of China once again brought the dramas "Fireworks in the World", "Gu Wenchang", "New Young People in the Village", "People First" and "Bean Juice" as promised, and since the beginning of the New Year, they have been launched on the official website of the National Drama Theatre, the official micro and the "Learning to Strengthen the Country" platform, so that the audience across the country can feel the warm New Year's taste of family reunion.
▲ Poster of "Gu Wenchang" of the National Theatre of China
On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, the "Concert Hall on the Cloud", jointly built by the China Symphony Orchestra and the CCTV Network of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, launched the "2022 Chinese New Year Exhibition Season". From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the sixth day of the Chinese New Year at 10:00 a.m., the China Symphony Orchestra "Concert Hall on the Clouds" has continuously displayed six selected concerts with different styles. Among them, there are the opening ceremony performance of the 2022 music season of the National Symphony Of Nations, "New Year Concert" - "Ode to Joy", the Russian-style National Symphony New Year Concert, the shocking Mahler's "Seventh Symphony", as well as the "Long March Suite", "Southwest Music and Painting" and other excellent national symphony choral concerts.
▲ The china symphony orchestra 'Symphony of the New Year' was recorded at the scene
The Central Opera House elaborately produced the "2022 Chinese New Year Online Concert", and the artists of the theater opera troupe, symphony orchestra and choir recorded the orchestral overture "Ode to the Red Flag", "Roar, Yellow River", the chorus "Under the Brilliant Sunshine", as well as the classic fragments of the original operas of the Central Opera House such as "Autumn Equinox Wheat Is Just in time", "Manas", "Marco Polo" and so on. In addition, the Concert of "Spring to the North" of the Central Opera House was also broadcast on the CCTV Music Channel on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year.
On January 31, the second-act Chinese New Year ballet "New Year", composed by the National Ballet of China based on Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker", was performed on the online platform. This work, which integrates Chinese cultural elements into the Vocabulary of Western Ballet and tells the warm story of Chinese families celebrating the Spring Festival, has infected online audiences at home and abroad.
▲ Poster of the Ballet of China's "The Nutcracker"
During the Spring Festival holiday, the Central Chinese Orchestra presented a wonderful concert performance. Proverb Cloud: "Wax drums sound, spring grass grows." "In ancient times, the mainland had the custom of beating drums to welcome the arrival of spring, which was intended to drive away the epidemic najib and remove the old and welcome the new. On January 30th, the 2022 Spring Festival Concert of the Central Chinese Orchestra of the Central Chinese Orchestra gathered with a global audience in the "cloud". On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the Central Chinese Orchestra carefully presented an online concert with the theme of celebrating the New Year and welcoming the Winter Olympics, "Together to the Future". On the same day, as part of the "Happy Spring Festival", "Blooming in the Clouds - 2022 Online New Year Concert between the Central Chinese Orchestra and the Russian Osipov Chinese Orchestra" was broadcast worldwide.
▲ Poster of the Central Chinese Orchestra "Blooming in the Clouds - 2022 Online New Year Concert between the Central Chinese Orchestra and the Russian Osipov Chinese Orchestra"
February 10, 2022 China Culture Daily
The first edition featured a special report
"National Academy of Arts Troupe Literature and Art Worship the New Year"
Editor-in-charge: Zhang Haining