At 20:00 local time on February 18, the 2022 "Happy Spring Festival" Sino-Russian joint concert in St. Petersburg was officially launched.
In the snow at the "Friendship Garden" in St. Petersburg, Russian musicians play the familiar melody of "My Motherland and Me". The Friendship Garden was inaugurated in 2003 as a gift from Shanghai, a sister city of St. Petersburg. The atmospheric faience nine dragon wall and the "friendship pavilion" with Jiangnan connotations have a unique style in the snow.
The melody of "My Motherland and Me" sounded in St. Petersburg
The concert is one of the 8th St. Petersburg "Happy Spring Festival" series of activities co-sponsored by the St. Petersburg Municipal Government, the Chinese Consulate General in St. Petersburg and the sister city of St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and the annual "Happy Spring Festival" has become a cultural business card in St. Petersburg. In this year's China-Russia online concert, Shanghai and St. Petersburg each selected five programs to connect two cities and two cultures with art.
Shanghai Opera House "Country Knight"
The opening song of the concert is an interlude of "Country Knight" selected by the Shanghai Opera House, which is one of the most well-known opera interludes in the world, conducted by Xu Zhong, president and conductor of the Shanghai Opera House, and performed by the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, and the familiar melody builds a bridge of friendship between the two places.
Traditional dance of St. Petersburg
The Shanghai Chinese Orchestra performed the double pipa concerto "Tianxingjian". "Tianxingjian" is from the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra's "Chinese Music Yong Zhonghua" concert, composer Wang Yunfei, paying tribute to 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.
Shanghai Chinese Orchestra "Chinese Music Singing China"
Shanghai Ballet "Swan Lake"
The Shanghai Ballet presented a fragment of the ballet "Swan Lake". Swan Lake, the world's other ballets, usually has only 16 or 24 performers dancing swan dances, and the upper bar version is upgraded to 48. The 48 actors followed the music and constantly changed their formations, and the scene was very shocking, like a "swan ocean".
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs Shostakovich's Second Round Dance
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra selected a clip of Shostakovich's "Second Round Dance", which is the version of the Shanghai Quartet leading the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra at the 2022 Shanghai New Year Concert. Two music brands named after the city, send greetings from Shanghai to the world.
Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe "Urban Rhythm - Big Springboard"
The Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe selected and sent "Urban Rhythm - Big Springboard". "Big Springboard" is a reserved program of the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe, which has won gold medals in china's previous acrobatic competitions for three consecutive years.
The background is the "Friendship Garden" of St. Petersburg
Artists in St. Petersburg performed all outside the snow-covered outdoors, ending with "Towards the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics," where singers sang in the snow and dancers danced on their skis to bless the Winter Olympics.
Traditional Russian dance in the snow