In this season of spring breeze and magnolia blooming, the annual maintenance work of the National Centre for the Performing Arts will also be carried out from March 14 to April 1.
Although, during this period of stage maintenance, it is necessary to temporarily leave with offline audiences and tourists for a short time. But every Saturday night the National Centre for the Performing Arts online performances, still wonderful!
Recreating the life course of the saints, the dance of the thousand-year-old national style, the black and white key dance that records the master's artistic understanding, and the mighty national orchestra that shows the majesty of the Great Wall are given to every netizen who loves art online.
China Opera and Dance Theater "Confucius"
March 19, 2022 19:30
Since its premiere in 2013, the dance drama "Confucius" has been a hot "blockbuster" play in the dance industry, with nearly 400 performances, full of venues and countless fans. Directed by Kong Dexin, the 77th generation descendant of Confucius, and interpreted by the China Opera and Dance Theater, this work vividly recreates the life course of Confucius who has endured countless hardships, read all the sorrows of the world, and become a saint from a mortal to a saint in the vocabulary of dance and music.
The whole drama is divided into six chapters: "Preface", "Chaotic World", "Absolute Grain", "Dream Back to Datong", "Ren Yan" and "Epilogue And Music", which show the legendary past of Confucius's travels around the world with magnificent scenes, and through the exquisite dance choreography of "Jade Dance", "Youlan Cao" and "Caiwei Dance", it connects the clues of Confucius's life path such as participating in politics and consulting, traveling around the world, desperate food, string song Youlan, and returning to Lu in his old age, expressing Confucius's inexhaustible pursuit of "benevolent government".
In the online performance guided tour, the host Zhang Guoguo, the director of the dance drama "Confucius" Kong Dexin, the head of the Dance Troupe of the China Opera and Dance Theater Yang Yi, and the Confucius actor Yang Siyu will deeply interpret the rich dance vocabulary of the dance drama for the audience, interpret Confucius's sacred benevolence with the dance style full of Chinese rhymes and national style, and taste the profound connotation of Confucius's thought!
Yin Chengzong piano solo concert
March 26, 2022 19:30
The famous pianist Yin Chengzong, with a whole piano work of the Romantic period, looks back on the artistic road and reviews the 80 years of life course.
Brahms's Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, composed at the age of 20, shows a deep, unique, romantic and rational musical style, expressing the ideals and feelings of young people. The Piano Sonata in B flat major is a musical summary of Schubert's life before his death. Debussy's "Moonlight" and Schumann's "Dream Song" two piano sketches record yin Chengzong's life scenes and artistic experiences at a certain stage of his life, conveying the true beauty of his heart.
The pre-performance guided tour will take the audience to understand Yin Chengzong's artistic career, and at the same time, Yin Chengzong will also interpret the work for the audience.
"The Great Wall" Central Chinese Orchestra National Concert
April 2, 2022 7:30 PM
The Central Chinese Orchestra's National Concert "The Great Wall" is a key funded play by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2021, and is a theme concert created by the Central Chinese Orchestra to review the history and culture of the Great Wall, explain the spiritual connotation of the Great Wall, and show the contemporary value of the Great Wall.
In order to present the "diversification" and "diversification" of the national instrumental music forms, the main creative team of this concert includes solos, ensembles, concertos, solos, choruses and characteristic instruments, showing the characteristics of Chinese music. The concert was conducted by the famous conductor Tang Muhai, and the famous composers Guo Wenjing, Zhang Qianyi, Hao Wei and Wang Danhong were the composers. The concert consists of four new works and one classic work, namely the national orchestra "The Great Wall Miles", the national orchestra "Inside and Outside the Great Wall", the instrumental concerto "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood", the soprano, the horse-headed organ, the mixed chorus and the national orchestra "Ode to the Great Wall" and the Erhu Concerto "Great Wall Caprice" (the third and fourth movements).
Tang Feng, deputy director of the Central Chinese Orchestra and famous erhu player, Quan Sheng, a horse-head violin player, and Gong Shuang, a soprano singer, joined in.
Meet on the line, not to see and not to disperse!
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