National Centre for the Performing Arts to produce and launch the opera "Don Juan"

Group photo of wang Xiaojing, the main creator of the opera "Don Juan" of the National Centre for the Performing Arts

BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- After the launch of "The Magic Flute" and "Figaro's Wedding", another Mozart classic opera "Don Juan" produced by the National Centre for the Performing Arts will premiere from November 27 to December 1, and will reproduce the "avant-garde" meaning of the birth of the play through the music of "original score as it was", paying tribute to this classic.

On November 8, the press conference of the play was held at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Zhao Tiechun, vice president of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Lu Jia, music and artistic director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, who directed the play, stage design and costume design, And Don Juan played by Vittorio Prato and Zhang Yang jointly interpreted the wonderful highlights of this production.

For hundreds of years, the story of Don Juan, the "love saint", has been favored by many literary and artistic masters, and has been widely circulated in the form of plays, music, novels and so on. In the field of opera, the most outstanding work on this subject was mozart and the script writer da Ponte's 1787 opera Don Juan. With beautiful and dramatic music, Mozart depicts Don Juan's experience of "hunting" on the last day of his life, and the end of his eventual drag into hell under the strong conflict between desire and social moral order.

Although the opera "Don Juan" has many popular arias and repetitions, a large number of narrative tones, complicated plots, complex character relationships, frequent scene transformations, etc., make it a work with a certain "threshold" from the perspective of production and appreciation.

Zhao Tiechun, vice president of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, said: "After the National Centre for the Performing Arts led the audience into the hall of Mozart's opera through "The Magic Flute" and "The Marriage of Figaro", according to the step-by-step, shallow and deep repertoire production plan, the extremely difficult "Don Juan" was brought to the audience. In the production process, the production team and the main creator and the main lead actor overcome the problems one by one, and strive to present a version of "Don Juan" that is both good-sounding and good-looking, but also has a high aesthetic pursuit for the audience. ”

Lu Jia, Musical Artistic Director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, was the first Chinese conductor to serve as the musical director and chief conductor of the opera house in Italy, the home of opera. His high level of conducting skills and in-depth reading of Italian opera have been highly praised by Italian music critics. This time, Lu Jia will lead the Chinese and foreign singers, the National Centre for the Performing Arts choir and the orchestra to reproduce the musical essence of the play in its original form with the extremely rigorous Viennese version of "Don Juan" published by "Riding a Bear".

Stage artist Yannis Cox, a master director and stage artist who has won the Lawrence Oliver Award and the Molière Theatre Award, has rejoined the Production of the National Centre for the Performing Arts after producing the opera "Rukia of Rammer molle" for the National Theatre. For Yannis Cox, Mozart's opera Don Juan focused on drama rather than the psychological activity of the characters, which was a pioneering practice at the time. In this edition, Yannis Cox is based on the principle of paying tribute to the "classic", focusing on the "avant-garde" meaning of the work in its birth years. At the same time, Yannis Cox pursues a balance between comedy and tragedy, and constructs rich dramatic scenes on a seemingly rustic stage with artistic ideas that simplify complexity.

It is reported that this version of "Don Juan" has gathered a group of Chinese and foreign singers with good looks and strength. Vittorio Prato, a baritone singer from Italy, and Zhang Yang, a resident opera singer at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, challenged the difficult role of Don Juan. Vittorio Prato excelled in operas from the classical period and has left a dazzling footprint in many of the world's leading theatres. After receiving the task of playing Don Juan, singer Zhang Yang pushed aside other performances except for the Exchange Performance of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Russia for half a year, and immersed himself in the character of Don Juan and the music in the play, in order to create a wonderful playboy for the audience that was "loved and hated".

In addition, Singers from home and abroad, such as Carlo Lepole, Li Ao, Francesca Doto, Xu Xiaoying, Davinia Rodriguez, Dong Fang, Juan Francisco Gatley, Francisco Massiglia, Marina Monceau, Xu Xiaoyi, Thomas Tatzer, Major, Biani Tor Christensenson, Zhao Ming and other singers from home and abroad will participate in the performance. (End)