Wang Yangming
Original opera
Guizhou Provincial Literary and Artistic Creation Support
Key projects
Exhibit 单位
Central Opera House, Guizhou University
Guizhou Daoxi Culture Media Co., Ltd
Honorary production unit
Propaganda Department of Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China
Supporting Units
Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism
Propaganda Department of Guiyang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China
Confucius Academy Development Foundation of Guizhou Province
Performing groups
Opera Troupe of the Central Opera House
Chorus of the Central Opera House
Symphony Orchestra of the Central Opera House
Stage Art Design and Production Center of the Central Opera House
Heart Harmony Chamber Children's Choir
Show time
May 10-12, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Venue:
Theater of the Central Opera House
Director: Liu Yunzhi, Xie Nian, Yang Wei
Producer: Zheng Qichao, Song Baoan
Mo Hong, Li Danyang, Wang Xiaoye
Composer: Liu Jinjun
Screenwriter: Wang Hua Liu Jinjun
Conductor: Yuan Ding
Director: Yi Liming, Shen Liang
Stage Design: Li Chenxi
Lighting design: Yuan Jingnan, Yang Fan
Costume design: Zeng Yunzhu
Drama poems: Wang Yangming, Chen Dharma, Liu Jinjun
Chorus conductor: Zhou Haoyu
Concertmaster: Du Xuan
Makeup Design: Song Lin
Prop design: Chen Long
Stage manager: Pei Xiuwen, Zhang Yifan
Assistant stage designer: Hu Jianbo
Lighting Design Assistant: Li Heke
Vocal Artistic Director: Kingman
Physical guidance: Tian Ruowen
Script History and Culture Consultant: Zhang Xinmin
Script & Music Consultant: Man Xin
Composer Assistant: Wu Yang
Stage Technical Management: Zang Peng
Piano Artistic Director: Chu Chu Xu Yuhui
Sun Chenxin Xu Yingbao
Synopsis
In the second year of Ming Zhengde, after Shangshu was trapped by the court staff, Wang Yangming went to degrade Guizhou Longchangyi, the husband and wife said goodbye to Qiantang, and Wang Yangming was chased and killed by the Jinyi guard led by Fuping and threw himself into the river. Yicheng Wang Yangming fell into a desperate situation and fell to the bottom of his life, but he was kind-hearted and was embraced by the various ethnic minorities represented by Ah Duo. After the enlightenment of Longchang, his virtue of teaching and educating people, his achievements in governing the country and leveling the world, and his words of conscience deduced a symphonic aria of life.
Main cast
Wang Yangming: Zhang Long (special guest) Han Junyu
Fuping: Yu Jingren, Wang Yiqing
Ah Duo: Li Jingjing, Jiang Xiaoyadi
Zhu Ruozhen: Wang Ye Hao Fei
Ji Weiheng: Jin Chuan, Sun Lidong
Young Wang Yangming and scholar: Yang Li and Liu Yingying
Leader of Jinyiwei: Zhao Ting
Brocade Guard: Zhang Man
Servant: Gao Lin
Abba of the owner of the village: Zhang Xiaoyuan
Teacher: Wang Kai
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Introduction of the main creator
Composed by Liu Jinjun
Dr. Liu Jinjun, Tujia. Specially appointed composer-in-residence of the Central Opera House, master supervisor of Guizhou University, and artistic director of CHiiNA Daoxi. He studied under Professor Jin Xiang. He served as the host of the key project of Guizhou literary and artistic boutiques. He has won the highest level award of the "SOUDS OF THE HUMAN WORLD" international composition competition, the "Golden Eagle Award", the first prize of Guizhou Literature and Art, etc., and has been selected as a large-scale orchestral work of the "Symphony of the Times" of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, which has been widely acclaimed. Composer Jin Xiang commented that he was "talented and full of aura". Professor Gao Weijie commented that his works are "brilliant and shocking", "have style and characteristics, are magnificent, and have a very rigorous structure". It is known as "the rise of the seventh generation of Chinese composers".
Screenwriter Wang Hua
Wang Hua, female, vice chairman of Guizhou Writers Association. He is the author of the novels "Qiaoxizhuang", "Wuci", "Homeland", "Flower River", "Flower Village", "Flower City", novellas "Flag", "Sunflower", "Planting Corn in the Sky", "Eraser" and many other works. His works have won the Horse Award twice, and many of his works have been translated overseas.
Conductor Yuan Ding
Conductor Yuan Ding is currently the chief permanent conductor of the Central Opera House, a member of the Artistic Committee of the Academy, the deputy head of the Symphony Orchestra, a director of the China Opera Research Association, a national "young top-notch talent", and a master's tutor of the China Conservatory of Music. An acclaimed conductor, Yuan Ding has successfully conducted the Leipzig Sino-German Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Southern Westphalia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Comic Opera, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korea National Opera, and has maintained long-term and fruitful relationships with all of China's top art groups. As a sought-after backbone of contemporary opera, Yuan Ding has premiered a large number of original Chinese plays in recent years. When interpreting Western classic operas, Yuan Ding can fully demonstrate the artistic charm of different styles of repertoire with his profound skills and accurate interpretation.
Directed by Yi Liming
President and Artistic Director of Dahua City Performing Arts Center. Director of the Modern Script Translation Research and Innovation Center of the Central Academy of Drama. Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres His works have won the Wenhua Award of the Ministry of Culture and the Beijing Outstanding Repertoire Award for many times. Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, USA; Guest design for the Lincoln Center Festival in the United States, the Autumn Arts Festival in Paris, the Brussels Festival in Belgium, and the New National Theater in Japan. His design and directing works have been performed at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Paris Autumn Festival, the Berlin Asian Art Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Pace Festival, the Salzburg Festival, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
Directed by Shen Liang
Director of the Central Opera House. Associate Professor, School of Song Research, Peking University. Former director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Graduated from the Department of Chinese Opera Directing. Three majors: Chinese, art and directing. A new generation of Chinese opera directors is at the helm. There are more than 30 independent masterpieces. Drama director of CCTV's "Heroes in the Poster". Drama director of Hunan Satellite TV's "Hundred Years of Youth" and "Forever Lei Feng". Representative works: "Desire Under the Elm Tree", "Beacon Fire in the Green Mountains", "Carmen", "Homecoming", "Zunyi 1935", "Month by Month", "Lovely Rivers", "Fireworks of Happiness", "Torch", "Country, Family", "Iron Man Trio", "Zhuo Wenjun", "La Traviata", "Turandot", "The Wandering Dutchman", "Janiskiki", "Sister Angelica", "The Magic Flute", "The Sweetness of Love", "Artist's Life", "Autumn Equinox Wheat Planting", "Fisherman and Goldfish", "Nezha", "Dayu Controls the Water", "Childhood Marx", etc.
Stage design: Li Chenxi
Stage design of the Central Opera House. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in stage design. Design works: opera "Sister Angelica", "Autumn Equinox Wheat is the Right Time", "Red Detachment of Women", opera concert "Hansel and Gretel", Puccini triptych ("Coat", "Sister Angelica", "Gianni Schicchi"), "The Marriage of Figaro", "Love in a Fallen City", CCTV "Flowers in China" International Women's Day drama special program, drama "Joke New Language Wonderful Night", immersive live performing arts theater "Edge-Yuanji Daming", Nanluoguxiang Drama Exhibition Season opening drama "Ten Years", " Maker Town" and "Net".
Lighting design by Yuan Jingnan
He is an expert member of the Lighting Professional Committee of the China Stage Art Society, and a visiting professor of many art academies. He has been engaged in lighting design and creative planning for more than 20 years, and has been responsible for the lighting design of many large-scale events at home and abroad, the reception of foreign heads of state by national leaders, and various dramas and live shows. He has won several awards from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is responsible for the lighting design of the national opera "Autumn Equinox Wheat is the Right Time", "Xiao Hong", "Road", "Destiny", "Red Detachment of Women" and the world classic opera "The Magic Flute". A number of repertoire have won honors such as "National Excellent National Opera Exhibition" and "National Excellent Stage Art Exhibition with Realistic Themes".
Costume design: Zeng Yunzhu
Chief costume designer at Dahua City Performing Arts Center. In 2015, he graduated from the Department of Art and Design of Beijing Dance Academy, majoring in stage art, costume modeling and makeup modeling. In 2020, she graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA degree in Costume in Stage Design. Winner of the 2019 Off-Broadway Theatre Innovation Awards, nominated for Best Stage Costume Design. Recent works: The Drama "Lady Flora", "The Death of Oedipus", "The Death of Zhuang Zhou", "The World of the Moon", "The Poet Li Bai", "Tea"; the dramas "Betrayal", "Chekhov's Table", "In the Penal Colony", "Dr. Crook - The Triumph of Medicine", "ALPHAVILLE"; Dance "In Human Nature" and so on.
Drama poem Tan Bodhidharma
Chen Dharma, born on June 5, 1966, is a native of Guizhou along the river. He studied at Fudan University, Capital Normal University, and Peking University and obtained a master's degree in education. He has successively worked in the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, the Central Institute of Educational Sciences, and the editorial department of Poetry Magazine. He has published a collection of poems "Cliff Carvings" and so on. He is the founder of the "Third Way Writing" poetry school and the founder of the "Beijing Poetry School". He has been teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Arts for many years, teaching the history of foreign literature, a compulsory course for undergraduates. Since 2015, he has served as the vice president of the Patriotic Engineering Research Institute (in charge of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee).
Chorus conductor Zhou Haoyu
He was admitted to the Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music with the first place in his major. He has studied orchestra conducting and choral conducting under Professor Xu Xin, Professor Yu Feng, Professor Yang Li and Professor Xia Xiaotang. He has excellent grades during his undergraduate and master's degrees, and has won the national scholarship every year in a row, and has been awarded the title of "Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Universities". He has performed with the Central Opera House, China Opera and Dance Theater, National Centre for the Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra and China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus for many times, and has been well received. In 2016, he served as the permanent conductor of the Chorus of the Central Opera House, and successfully completed a number of musical works, concerts and opera performances.
Concertmaster Du Xuan
He is a Chinese violinist who has been active in the European music industry for many years. He has served as Guest Concertmaster of the BBC Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Guest Concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Symphony Orchestra, Guest Associate Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Guest Principal of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, Spain, Concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra of Portugal, Concertmaster of the Tampera Symphony Orchestra of Finland, and Concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra of Porto, Portugal. In 2014, Du Xuan, as a senior cultural expert, was invited by the Ministry of Culture of China to return to China to serve as the concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra of the Central Opera House.
Makeup design by Song Lin
Makeup design of the Central Opera House, graduated from the Department of Stage Art of the Central Academy of Drama with a master's degree. The work "Macbeth" won the first prize of the first Qilin Cup Character Modeling Competition, and his representative works include: opera "Xiao Hong", "Road", "Destiny", "Border City", "Manas", "Nala", opera concert "The Marriage of Figaro", Puccini's "Triptych", musical "Heaven and Earth Canal Love", "Purple Stone Street", dance drama "Fujima Manhui Beijing Japanese Dance Warriors", drama "Cherry Orchard", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Playing Entertainment", "Waiting for Godot", Edinburgh Theatre Festival "Home", "Sunrise", "Ruan Lingyu", etc.
Prop design by Chen Long
Chen Long graduated from Beijing Dance Academy with a major in stage art design, and entered the Central Opera House in 2015. During his tenure at the National Opera House, he served as a stage design assistant in the creation of the operas "The Gold of the Rhine", "Manas" and "Xiao Hong", as a prop designer in the operas "Red Detachment of Women", "Manas" and "Tosca", and participated in the performances of large-scale operas such as "La Traviata", "Dream of the Mountains and Forests" and "Turandot". Independent design works include: the musical "Zhang Ailing", the drama "Red and White Joy", "Beijing to the North is the Great Northern Wilderness", "Family Portrait", "Symphony of Happiness" and so on.
Stage manager Pei Xiuwen
Stage manager, songwriter, young music critic, currently working at the Central Opera House. He studied at Shanghai Theatre Academy and Peking University respectively and graduated with a master's degree in drama (opera arts). His playwright and composition works have been invited to perform at the 2014 Shanghai International Arts Festival, and he has published more than 100,000 words of theoretical and critical articles in "Art Review", "People's Music", "Music Lovers", "Opera", "National Centre for the Performing Arts", "China Art Newspaper", "Music Weekly" and other publications, and participated in nearly 100 performances of operas and musicals.
Stage Technology Management Zang Peng
Graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, he is now working at the Stage Art Center of the Central Opera House. In recent years, he has successively served as stage management for the operas "Turandot", "Carmen", "Rigoletto", "La Traviata", "Madama Butterfly", "Artist's Career", "Border City", "Xiao Hong", "Destiny", "Road", "Marco Polo" and other stage management; and stage management of musicals such as "War Horse", "Qu Yuan", "The Piano of Steel", "Wang Er's Long March" and "Green Snake".
Piano Artistic Direction Chu Chu
Young pianist, national second-class performer, graduated from the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 2009, he joined the Central Opera House. He has served as the artistic director of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelungen" for four consecutive years, and has rehearsed more than 30 Chinese and foreign operas such as "The White-Haired Girl", "Madama Butterfly", "The Artist's Career", "The Magic Flute", "The Bat", "Tannhäuser", "The Red Tailor", "The Troubadour", "The Rustic Knight", "Carmen", "Harlequin", "Tosca", "Dream of the Mountains", "Xiao Hong", "Women's Heart", etc., and several operas directed by him have won various awards from the Ministry of Culture for many times.
Piano Artistic Direction Xu Yuhui
In 2010, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory of Music with a master's degree in piano performance, chamber music performance and vocal accompaniment, and in 2014 he graduated from the Glazunov State Conservatory of Music with a doctorate in piano performance. In 2002, he won the second prize of the 21st World Art Cup International Young Performers Competition, and in 2003, he won the special prize of the Chopin International Junior Competition in Poland. In 2015, he joined the Opera Troupe of the Central Opera House as a piano artistic director, and participated in the rehearsals of "Tosca", "Twilight of the Gods", "Gold of the Rhine", "Madama Butterfly", "Carmen", "Rigoletto", "The Marriage of Figaro", "Woman's Heart", "Cavalla Rusticana", "Nun" and other Chinese and foreign classic operas.
Piano Artistic Direction Sun Chenxin
He is a doctoral student in the School of Arts and Media, Beijing Normal University, under the supervision of Professor Wang Haibo, has published more than 10 academic papers, and participated in many projects such as the Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. He has held solo piano recitals in Beijing, Lanzhou and other places, and won the first place in the China finals of the 2nd Imola Cassoni International Piano Competition in Italy, and the gold medal of the Yangtze River Piano National Competition of the "Little Golden Bell" Award of Chinese Music. He has served as the designated piano artistic director for a number of vocal competitions and master classes at home and abroad, and won the Outstanding Piano Artistic Direction Award. He has served as a piano accompanist in operas such as "La Traviata", "Carmen", "Rigoletto", "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "The Wilderness".
Piano Artistic Direction Xu Yingbao
Young pianist, graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Musique de Genève with a diploma as a concert pianist, and is currently the piano artistic director of the China National Opera House. Since joining the Central Opera House, he has served as the piano artistic director of the classic operas Carmen, Tosca, Turandot, La Traviata, Triptych, Harlequin, Don Juan, The Marriage of Figaro, and the original operas Death by Injury, Xiao Hong, The Road, Border City, Destiny, Marco Polo and Verdi's Requiem. He was choral conductor and piano director in the rehearsals of the operas Carmen, Puccini's Triptych, Rigoletto and Verdi's Requiem.
Source: China National Opera House