On the afternoon of February 15th, the 2021/22 Spring Performance Season Release Ceremony of shanghai Oriental Art Center "Chunhua Qiushi" was held, and 49 sets of 73 luxurious performances were born in the twilight of early spring. This performance season revolves around the four major sections of "Sound of Spring", "Bone of the Wind", "Brilliant Stage" and "Positive Popularity", covering various programs such as classical, drama, opera, dance, cross-border and so on, continuing the diversified, youthful and branded style of Dongyi, and opening with a new version of Peking Opera "Tang Guifei". Its Middle Eastern art brand "Listen to symphony • to the East" will join hands with domestic top conductors and performers to create brilliant achievements this season, and the popular national style cross-border performances will also bloom with unlimited possibilities.
Although the introduction of overseas programs is still full of obstacles, there are also new opportunities in the dilemma. Dongyi further optimizes and integrates industry resources, carefully selects artistic products with ideological, artistic and ornamental qualities, and brings more thinking and positive energy to the audience while creating word-of-mouth and core brands. Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and other famous domestic orchestras, Lv Jia, Tan Dun, Xu Zhong, Zhang Yi, Lin Daye, Lu Siqing, Zhang Haochen, Wang Yujia, An Tianxu, Huang Ying, Li Quan, Cheng Fangyuan, Gong Linna, Feng Mantian, Fang Jinlong and other music leaders have successively appeared. In addition, Yang Liping's dance drama "Spring Festival", Gansu Provincial Song and Dance Theater "Silk Road Flower Rain", Shanghai Ballet 'Pagoda Mountain', Meng Jinghui's drama work "Song of the Sad Cafe", Higashino Keigo's drama "Relief Grocery Store", Huang Ying's drama "Fu Shou Quan" and many other high-level high-quality plays will also hit hard.
At the press conference, with the greetings of Spring Fangcao, Chen Guangxian, chairman of the China Symphony Development Foundation, Li Quan, a famous musician, Li Jun, a Peking Opera performance artist, Shan Wen, Shi Xiaming, Kunqu performance artists, attended to share artistic experiences, and unveiled the "Spring And Autumn Reality" 2021/22 spring performance season with the audience.
Conductors take the helm of classical music feasts and play Chinese chapters on the same stage with young musicians
Once known as the China Home of the World Symphony Orchestra, Dongyi has always adhered to the tireless pursuit of the depth and breadth of music, and has provided countless spiritual food for music fans over the years, which is a unique existence in the country. At present, Dongyi is in accordance with the conditions of the times and looks at the whole country, in addition to gathering a number of symphony troupes in the Yangtze River Delta to bring classical concerts with different temperaments, Dongyi once again helps Beijing-Shanghai literary and artistic exchanges, and strives to invite the top symphony powerhouses from the mainland to Shanghai, providing a platform for cooperation to create more national art masterpieces. In the new season, from the beautifully melodic Italian school, the dramatic poetic German-Austrian school, to the outstanding Personality of the Russian National School, Dongyi broadened the scope of the repertoire to create an exclusive "classical music custom song list". The conductor led the group to escort the symphony concert one by one, playing the Huazhang on the same stage with young musicians, bringing multiple shocks of art and soul to the audience in Shencheng.
"Listening to Symphony • To the Orient" as the core brand of Dongyi's main theme has heated up again in the new performance season, and the "Double Epic" concert has opened the list of "symphonies" this season: the famous conductor Xu Zhong and the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra and famous singers Shi Yijie, Sun Yan and Xiong Yufei brought the epic and magnificent dramatic symphonic chorus "Bran's Poetry"; the famous conductor Lu Jia will lead the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra to re-ascend to Dongyi. Lead the audience to the classic masterpieces of the most innovative composer in the history of German-Austrian opera, Wagner, and the musical giant Dvořák. Subsequently, the famous conductor Xu Zhong, together with singer Dong Fang and the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, told the story of the hidden sadness and hazy beauty of late 19th-century Romanticism. As an important position of the Shanghai Symphony, the Shanghai Philharmonic will perform a number of master symphonies this season: a concert by conductor Lin Daye Qiangqiang and the famous cellist Qin Liwei and the violinist Huang Bin, the Shanghai Philharmonic Art Director and conductor Zhang Yi and violinist Wang Zhijiong's special concert richard Strauss, and the "I libya exotic" theme concert conducted by Spanish special conductor Pablo Miergo.
In addition, the classical music superstars will also all appear, and Chinese veteran and young musicians will play the same stage. Zhang Haochen, a young pianist after the 90s, will cooperate with Su Jiao to bring the works of composers such as Borodin and Rachmaninoff to present a symphony concert of "super high standard"; the popular pianist An Tianxu, who can be expected in the future, has once again been finalist in this year's Van Kleben International Piano Competition, and will debut on the Dongyi Stage; and the internationally popular pianist Wang Yujia will also appear on the stage in July. In addition to pianists, Lu Siqing, a "veteran" musician known as the "first Paganini in the East", Huang Bin, Wang Zhijiong, the violin goddess, Qin Liwei, cellist, Huang Ying, Song Yuanming, etc., are about to show their unique musical charm in the new performance season.
The national style broke the national rhyme "on the line", and the famous drama moon of the oriental masters and a number of Chinese music masterpieces struck together
In the new performance season, Dongyi created the "Bone of the Wind" section and launched a series of National Style performances to show the prosperity of China, reflecting the soul of the national rhyme. In addition to the 13 sets of 17 high-quality plays to be staged in the "13th Oriental Famous Artists Famous Drama Month" to show the charm of traditional culture, Dongyi carefully selected a number of Chinese style performances with both audiovisual sense and invited a number of Chinese music masters and popular Chinese style musicians to join.
The "13th Oriental Famous Artists Famous Drama Month" will arrive in March this year, and the eight major theater troupes of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Anhui and Shu will concentrate on performing outstanding plays such as Peking Opera, Kun Opera, Pingtan Opera, Huangmei Opera, Burlesque Opera, Quyi Musical Drama, Yue Opera, etc., and invite Shi Yihong, Li Jun, AnPing, Xi Zhonglu, Shan Wen, Shi Xiaming, Gao Bowen, Sun Juan, Wu Yaling, Jiang Jianguo, Zhang Jun, Fu Xiru, Wu Fenghua, Wu Suying (ranked in the order of the repertoire) and other famous actors to perform on stage. From the opening of the new version of "Tang Guifei" of the Shanghai Peking Opera House led by Meipai performing artist Shi Yihong to the meihua award winner Wu Suying's partner "Second Degree Mei" Wu Fenghua, the Shaoxing Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe's "Tanuki Cat for Prince" and "Three Looks at the Royal Sister" closed, the "Haipai" Peking Opera took turns to fight at the same time "1699 · Peach Blossom Fan" and many other classics returned to Shanghai. Jiangnan culture shows its charm in the characteristic dramas of the Yangtze River Delta region, and Yue opera, Huangmei opera, burlesque opera and pingtan art will bloom one after another.
Traditional music can also be combined with any musical form, instrument, or timbre to interpret its own unique charm. In order to better serve the aesthetic needs of the audience, the famous musicians invited by Dongyi in the new performance season are not only star-studded, but also the promoters of traditional culture and the deep cultivators in the field of national tide. On March 12, "Master Zhong Nguyen" Feng ManTian will present the "Down the Hill - Whispers" concert, which will not only bring many works mixed with different music genres, but also show a special form of improvisation. On May 3rd, Fang Jinlong, the "Treasure Chinese Music Master", together with the New Kyushu Philharmonic Orchestra, brought the "B Station New Year's Eve Hot Circle Breaking Same Model" "Dou Le X Two Dimensions" that is loved by young people at present, crossing the East and the West in the way of the most young people, bringing the famous scene of "Dou Le" that has swept hundreds of millions of music fans. On July 29th, the popular Chinese style musician Gong Linna will also sing Dongyi again, leading the new direction of Chinese music with a "Walking Sound" National Style Concert. In addition, Shi Yihong's newly edited Peking opera "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Gong Yun Painting Song – Xi Yu Neo classical Orchestra Luo Geng Works Concert", "Flowing Water: Zhang Weiliang Flute Solo Concert", Nanjing Chinese Orchestra National Symphony Concert "Mo Shuo" and other wonderful works will be unveiled one after another.
Large-scale dramas are all-encompassing, and the dance forest conference is full of oriental colors
2021 can be described as a fruitful year of drama for Dongyi, with masterpieces such as "Sunrise", "Red and Black", "Niu Tianqi" and "Effort Meal" coming out one after another. Dongyi continues to extend this residual heat into the new year, always maintaining a high standard and modern aesthetic in the selection of repertoire, leading the audience into a multi-dimensional vortex of masterpieces. The drama and dance drama sector once again strongly gathered a number of large IP and large productions, and the construction of "docks" and "sources" went hand in hand. In the new performance season, on the one hand, not only will a number of famous directors be dropped "bombshells", but also a series of suspenseful and high-quality dramas covering Chinese national characteristics will be launched. On the other hand, the output of high-quality "Shanghai production", leading the new track of the performance industry, creating the "source" of program production and production, the drama "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes" produced by Dongyi Productions returned to Shanghai at the end of May with the two honors of "Best Screenwriter" and "Best Director" at the end of May after the first round of national tour last year.
The blockbuster series of famous directors in the drama section is adapted from the drama "Song of the Sad Cafe" directed by writer Carson McCullers of the same name and directed by Meng Jinghui. As one of the most concerned works of the first Aranya Drama Festival, "Queen of One-Man Drama" Huang Xiangli co-starred with powerful actors Sun Yucheng and Wu Zhoukai, and musician Zhang Weiwei played electronic music to invite the audience to witness the flowing loneliness; Keigo Higashino's super popular masterpiece "Relief Grocery Store" drama Chinese version of the warm attack, director Liu Fangqi tried to cure the drama works after "Veronica's Room", "Mousetrap", "Pillow Man", and the various characters who broke the silk connected to form a variety of life Young theater director Huang Ying and cross-talk actor Yan Hexiang brought an original drama "Fu Shou Quan" with "cross-talk" and "cross-talk actor" as the main body, in the concept of "laughing while living", through the cross-talk actor's tragic and joyful life to explore the philosophy of laughter on impermanence.
A TV work "Beginning" detonated a wave of suspense at the beginning of 2022, and in the new performance season, Middle East Art selected a number of high-level suspense dramas to invite Shanghai audiences to shake off the clouds and fog to find the truth. The drama "Hawthorne", adapted from Mr. Cheng Xiaoqing's masterpiece "Hawthorne Detective Hawthorne", the large-scale costume mystery suspense drama "The Mystery cloud of the Daming Palace of the Di Gong Case", and the Chinese version of the drama "39 Steps" authorized by the National Theatre in Nuremberg, Germany, will all be featured in a concentrated manner.
Feeling the charm of dance from the "Chinese National Elements", this year's dance section will bring together a number of dance dramas that show the essence of Chinese national culture. The Gansu Provincial Song and Dance Theater will bring the dance drama "Silk Road Flower Rain", which is known as the "Model of Chinese National Dance Drama", to reproduce the profundity of Dunhuang culture and the prosperity of the ancient Silk Road, and the Dunhuang murals that have been sleeping for thousands of years will be presented on the stage. The play has been performed for more than 40 years, keeping pace with the times and constantly revising on the basis of inheritance. Up to now, the overall box office of the two performances to be staged in Dongyi has also been fully popular. Shanghai Ballet's original national ballet "Pagoda Mountain" focuses on the patriotic youth who rushed to Yan'an in the 1930s and 1940s, and uses "Haipai Ballet" to lead the audience to relive that magnificent period. In addition, the dance drama "The Charity of Spring", choreographed by Chinese dancer Yang Liping, a classic by the Russian musician Stravinsky, has been interpreted in hundreds of versions over the past century. Yang Liping uses a large number of oriental imagery, together with the international top team, together with Ye Jintian, He Xuntian and other artists to interpret Western classical music with oriental aesthetics.
From "cross-border" to "unbounded", multi-domain vision breaks through the barriers of the circle
Art is boundless, creation is boundless, while deeply cultivating classical and traditional music, Dongyi continues to find breakthroughs in the current fashion trend and modern art aesthetics through the strategic development of diversification, rejuvenation and branding. In the new performance season, the "positive popularity" section is specially created, and a number of cross-border cooperation stages span different categories such as games, literature, and variety shows, enjoy the fun of "cross-border" with the heart of "no boundaries", and establish cool and pioneering dialogues and exchanges with young audiences.
A meaningful musical "experiment" takes place in the field of games, and the internationally renowned Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun enters the "Glory of kings" game field to create five customized music for the five tiger general series skins. On May 4, the "Symphony Concert of the Five Tiger Generals" used five traditional Chinese ancient instruments that have almost been lost in history to interpret the spiritual core of the Five Tigers Generals, using symphonic art to dialogue young people and break the dimensional wall between mobile game players and symphony fans.
"Double star and to" cross-border joining, Li Quan, Cheng Fangyuan two pop stars will shine on the scene. Pop music phenomenon singer Li Quan will bring the "Jushi Li Quan JZ ALL STARS Concert" to the audience of Shencheng to perform pop jazz, bringing the new year's juju color carnival. Singer Cheng Fangyuan, who has led the trend of Chinese pop music since the 1980s, will bring "Cheng Fangyuan and her friends concert" to lead the audience to "return to youth" with classic songs of different styles. Cai Chengyu, Wang Xi and other popular singers of "Sound into People's Hearts" received great response and praise in last year's autumn and winter performance season, and in the new performance season, Dongyi will also launch a special "The Voice of China" concert, gathering the strength and popular singers of previous "The Voice of China" to open the red classic jukebox mode, and celebrate July 1st with moving voices and new creativity. Chinese opera singer Tian Haojiang will also launch a solo stage play "His Story and His Song", inviting Shanghai audiences to feel Tian Haojiang's intertwined past in terms of narration and singing.
On-site photography: Ye Chenliang
Author: Jiang Fang
Editor: Tong Weijing
Editor-in-Charge: Xueying Wang
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