Lei Jia and Wang Hongwei in rehearsal
Group photo of Liu Sha, Lü Jia and Li Xincao From April 14 to April 17, the original national opera "Ballad of the Canal" of the National Centre for the Performing Arts will return to the stage on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of its premiere, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera Festival 2022 will be launched.
The play is the first original national opera since the establishment of the Grand Theatre, based on the humanistic background of the Grand Canal, with an epic aesthetic perspective and a simple and fresh artistic style, based on the domestic first-line artist team of composer Yin Qing, screenwriter Huang Weiruo, Dong Ni and director Liao Xianghong.
The opera "Ballad of the Canal" takes the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as the background of the story, and through describing the fate of the characters in the play who have ups and downs on the canal, it shows the good and evil life and death, righteousness and thin clouds witnessed by the canal, and praises the pure love and the great love of the world who sacrifices himself for others. Since its inception, the play has gone through five rounds of hot performances, and has been deeply loved by the audience with its ups and downs, the elegant dance art of splashing ink ancient paintings and the beautiful melody. In the play, singing sections such as "We are the flowing water of the canal", "Canal Ballad", "Brilliant Star Gaze", "Where are you, Red Lotus" are widely sung and have become classics in the hearts of the audience.
For this round of performances, composer Mr. Yin Qing spent more than two months to revise and arrange the entire score of the opera "Ballad of the Canal". This round will be led by the National Centre for the Performing Arts Music and Artistic Director Lu Jia, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Choir, Lei Jia, Wang Lida, Wang Zhe, Wang Hongwei, Wang Zenan, Wang Li, Sun Yan, Wang Hexiang and many other singers who participated in the premiere of the play ten years ago.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera Festival 2022 will also set sail in April with the story of "Ballad of the Canal". With the theme of "Singing Huazhang", this year's opera festival will tell the story of the revolution for the audience in the form of opera for four months, recreate Western classics, and arrange wonderful children's operas for young audiences.
Previously, the National Centre for the Performing Arts opened the rehearsal scene behind the scenes of the opera "Ballad of the Canal" to the public through online live broadcasting. In the rehearsal of more than an hour, targeted repeated carving occupies a large proportion, but in the online live broadcast room, netizens from Shanghai, Xi'an, Kaifeng and other parts of the country do not feel bored, but look at it with relish - artists do not wear their heads, face the sky, the grand opera is extremely subdivided into songs, musical sentences, subsections, and then constantly polished and perfected, this process, the audience often has no chance to see, an audience message said everyone's voice: "The original opera is so arranged." ”
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The first "Spring of Chinese Music" of the National Centre for the Performing Arts was opened
Li Xincao and Lü Jia conduct folk music for the first time in a "cross-border" manner
On the evening of April 8, conductors Li Xincao, Lü Jia and Liu Sha led the Central Chinese Orchestra to bring unique national orchestral works such as "Yunshan Yanmiao", "General's Order", "Yin Chan Beauty Figure", "The Sum of Seven Colors" and other unique national orchestral works, kicking off the first Spring of Chinese Music of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
The concert of the evening was officially opened in "Yunshan Yanmiao" conducted by Lü Jia. In the second half of the concert, conductor Li Xincao took the baton and brought the national orchestra "National Wind" and "Silk Road" to the audience. Finally, the Kazakh music "Black Walking Horse" directed by Liu Sha, the "Lightning Polka" conducted by Lü Jia and the national orchestral music "Flower Good Moon" conducted by Li Xincao jointly drew a successful end to the performance of the evening.
This is the first time that Lü Jia and Li Xincao have conducted folk music works. Li Xincao believes that many methods and requirements in Western music conducting can be used in Chinese national music. "I think eastern and western music is still connected. My requirements for syntax and musical character in the conducting of Western music also apply to Chinese folk music. ”
The Spring of Chinese Music is the first specially planned art festival on the theme of national music launched by the National Centre for the Performing Arts, which echoes the "Spring of Chinese Symphony Music" of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in the following year. With the theme of "National Style and Elegant Rhyme", this year's Chinese Music Spring will invite a number of Chinese orchestras and more than 30 contemporary Chinese music masters to perform in a period of 21 days.
Tian Wanting, reporter of this group
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