On the evening of June 23, 2021, with the opening of the new Wanping Theater with the Peking Opera song "Yuelongmen", the Shanghai Wanping Theater officially met with the audience with a wonderful opening performance "Just a Hundred Years of Style" opera evening.
The characteristic space of Wanping Theater - the spiral staircase.
At the end of the performance, the audience was still unsatisfied.
Located at 859 Zhongshan South 2nd Road, Wanping Theatre, adjacent to Xuhui Riverside, is a municipal theater affiliated with the Shanghai Xiqu Arts Center.
In 2017, the Wanping Theater began to implement renovation and expansion, and after four years of intense construction, it was finally completed to meet the audience.
The new Wanping Theater has a construction area of 29,281 square meters, including a 996-seat grand theater, a 262-seat small theater, a 209-seat theater and a multi-purpose auditorium with 209 seats, a Dolby Panorama multi-channel cinema hall, a professional rehearsal hall and other advanced performance service facilities.
After four years of intense construction, the renovation and expansion began in 2017 and met with the audience on June 23, 2021.
The opening drama brought together the wonderful programs of the six theater groups of the Shanghai Opera Art Center, Beijing, Kunming, Shanghai, and Yuehuai, and also invited local opera programs with great characteristics such as Huangmei opera, Pear Garden opera, and Yang opera.
This year coincides with the 10th anniversary of the establishment of Shanghai Xiqu Art Center, and this xiqu party is also a birthday gift for shanghai xiqu art center on its 10th birthday.
Mao Shanyu, Tang Yuancai, and Shan Yangping prepared in the background.
Wang Wanna was ready to change into her costume.
Gao Bowen and Sheng Xiaoyun are in the background.
Shi Jihua dressed up as He Laoliu in "Xianglin Concubine".
Li An and Shen Yunli prepared the Kun opera "Purple Book".
Blue Sky and Xiong Mingxia prepare the Peking opera "Shilang Visits Mother".
The three generations of old, middle-aged and young opera artists were refreshed and energetic, and performed their own masterpieces, including classic singing sections that are popular among the population, as well as original innovative products in recent years, which can be described as wonderful and good drama.
The home-country feelings of the Peking Opera "Silang Visiting The Mother", the romantic beauty of the Kun opera "Linchuan Four Dreams", the loyalty and unswerving loyalty of the heroes of the Shanghai opera era, the eternal femininity of the four classics of Yue opera, the high-pitched excitement of the Huai opera "Han Mei", the euphemism of the commentary, crisscrossing and crossing time and space, radiating new brilliance on the brand-new stage of Wanping Theater.
A lively Peking Opera song "Yuelongmen" opened the stage for the Wanping Theater.
Li An and Shen Yunli performed the Kun opera "The Tale of the Purple Dragon".
Blue Sky and Xiong Mingxia performed the Peking opera "Shilang Visits His Mother".
The audience was enthusiastic.
Qian Huili and Wang Zhiping performed the Yue opera "Double Flying Wings".
Zhu Jian performed "Deng Shichang" with actors from Shanghai Shanghai Theatre.
Gao Bowen and Sheng Xiaoyun performed "Fengqiao Night Berth".
Students of Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe's Kunqu Farm Me Children's Class performed Kunqu opera "Good Period".
Shanghai Shanghai Theater Hong Doudou performed "Sister Jiang".
Shanghai Huai Opera Troupe Xing Na performed the Huai opera "Han Mei".
Mao Shanyu, director of Shanghai Shanghai Theatre, performed the Shanghai opera "Dunhuang Daughter".
Fu Xiru performed the Peking opera "Changing People's World".
Fang Yafen, Xu Jie, Fan Tingting, and Gu Aijun performed the Yue opera "Deep Love in Mountains and Seas".
Mr. Shang Changrong, a famous Peking Opera performance artist, took the stage to deliver a message for the future Wanping Theatre.
Tang Yuancai, Shan Yangping, Zhang Hua, Wang Lijun, Chen Lingyi and others sang the opera song "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party" to finalize the opening performance.
The "Fan of Opera" opens slowly.
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Source: Author: Jiang Diwen