Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) On the evening of July 6, as Zheng Xiaoying, 93, the lifelong honorary conductor of the Central Opera House, took over the baton from Hu Heping, secretary of the party group and minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the theater of the Central Opera House, which took seven years to complete, was officially opened. With the warm applause of the audience and the support of the musicians, Zheng Xiaoying became the first artist to step onto the podium of the Central Opera House Coliseum. Under her direction, a song called "Ode to the Red Flag" is like a magnificent song of praise, paying tribute to the central opera house that has come from Yan'an and has a glorious history of 70 years.
Zheng Xiaoying conducted the orchestral overture "Ode to the Red Flag". Photography: Fang Fei
Liu Yunzhi, president of the Central Opera House and a famous violinist, said in his opening speech, "Today is a landmark historical node, and opera singers have their own stage, their own home and their own home. A generation has a generation's mission, and a generation has a generation's responsibility. The growth of the Central Opera House is the epitome of the times, which reflects not only the progress of society, but also the great party and the powerful motherland behind us. ”
Liu Yunzhi, president of the Central Opera House and violinist. Photography: Fang Fei
The concert was attended by four conductors, Namely Zheng Xiaoying, Gao Weichun, Yang Yang and Yuan Ding. The three major sections of the concert, starting from the "Ode to the Red Flag" by Zheng Xiaoying, a senior in the music industry, passed the baton to the hands of Gao Weichun, Yang Yang and Yuan Ding like a baton, and the conductors carried out an artistic inheritance and spiritual continuation with this sense of ceremony of receiving the baton.
In the concert that evening, under the auspices of Zhang Kaili, Qu Xian and two performing artists, famous singers such as Lei Jia, Ma Mei, Liu Shan, Ding Yi, Yuan Chenye, as well as outstanding artists from the Central Opera House such as Liu Yunzhi, Mo Hong, You Hongfei, Wang Qingshuang, Ruan Yuqun, Guo Orange Orange, Li Shuang, Liu Yiran, etc., all took the stage, presenting the opera "White Haired Girl", "Honghu Red Guards", "Daughter of the Party", "Destiny", "Road" and other opera classics from different periods, as well as western opera classics such as "Rigoletto", "Carmen", and "Turandot" It shows the 70 years of the Central Opera House and the brilliant artistic achievements of Chinese opera in full frame.
Not long ago, Lei Jia, who had just finished the performance of the opera "Daughter of the Party" at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, said that the Central Opera House really had its own theater on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Central Opera House, which is a very important thing for Chinese opera people, and it is also a new beginning. I hope that in the future, the chinese opera industry will get better and better under their impetus.
The famous singer Lei Jia sang an excerpt from the opera "Daughter of the Party" "Thousand Miles of Spring Colors Full of Gardens". Photography: Fang Fei
It is reported that in the next opening performance month, the artists of the Central Opera House will successively launch many Chinese and foreign opera classics such as "La Traviata", "Turandot", "Opera Treasures", "Chinese Opera Aria Night" and so on.
Edited by Xu Meilin
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