"Peony Pavilion", "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden", "Long Hate Song"
"Crested Ibis", "The Eternal Wave", "Blossoming"
Othello, Plaintiff's Witness, Ordinary World
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And also
Original Chinese musical theater season
Oriental Famous Drama Month
"Spring Bloom" drama season
This spring,
The theater has about ~
Kunqu Opera Essence Edition "Peony Pavilion"
(Upper & Lower)
When: April 24-25
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre
Among the many literary and artistic forms adapted and staged in "Peony Pavilion", the performance of Kunqu Opera, the "Master of Hundred Operas", is the most famous. In the spring of 2021, Shi Xiaomei, Kong Aiping, Shi Xiaming and other leading actors, Jiangsu Kun Theatre performed, kunqu opera essence version of "Peony Pavilion" will soon premiere in Shanghai.
The theatrical structure of the Kunqu opera essence version of "Peony Pavilion" is unique and exquisite, the upper book "died for love", the next book "born of love", the performance of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei of Boudoir Dan is endless; the second, third and fourth generations of famous artists of Kun Theater in Jiangsu Province, sheng dan pure and ugly, culture and martial arts are combined with cold and hot; the music is gentle and melodious, deep in the essence of the water mill cavity; the simple and pure dance beauty as the background, on the stage to set off a piece of "Nankun style" that contains the wind and current, delicate and exquisite, and was praised for "creating magnificent things in nothing".
"The Eternal Wave"
When: April 10-11
Premiered in 2019, the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe's dance drama "The Eternal Electric Wave" lived up to expectations at the 12th China Arts Festival held in the same year, standing up to expectations, standing out from the 38 outstanding plays that participated in the competition, and won the 16th Wenhua Award on the stage of the Shanghai Grand Theatre, becoming the only work in Shanghai to win the highest award of the National Stage Arts Government.
The dance drama "The Eternal Radio Wave" is based on Li Bai, one of the "100 heroic models who have made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China", taking the true story of the martyr Li Bai as the material, boldly original on the basis of respecting history, and integrating elements such as youth colors, red memories, romantic feelings, and spy atmosphere.
Timings: March to April
Venue: SAIC Shanghai Culture Square
From March to April, SAIC Shanghai Culture Square's new season of original performances will present 4 sets of 11 performances, one play and one grid, one indispensable.
Happy Twist's first suspenseful thriller musical, "Drunk Winner", tells an unexpected comedy story in the dark gothic style;
The original musical "Wukong", produced by Drama Gang Music and Shangxi Culture, returned for the second time, recreating Chinese mythology with rock style and rebellious spiritual structure;
The large-scale children's musical "Nine Colored Deer", co-produced by China and Britain and produced by Wuhan People's Art Theatre, returned from the "epidemic" and took children into the mysterious stories in the Dunhuang murals;
Shanghai Xiaoyingxing Education's large-scale family-friendly musical "Indispensable" stimulates the resonance of parent-child interaction in laughter and tears.
Eight cellos for the Chinese New Year concert
Venue: Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall
If you're a big fan of John Williams, you've seen a lot of his classic film and television music. If you are a sci-fi Star Wars fan and a fan of military themes, then you must have seen "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park", "Saving Private Ryan", "E.T. Alien"... Majestic atmosphere, brilliant and shocking classical music, there is no reason to forget!
If you like the free-spirited South American tango, if you haven't experienced the customs and wonderful seasons in Argentina, then you must come to February 16th! Experience the wonderful blend and passion of classical music and tango, let Piazzolla take you to the real South American charm...
Linglong Guole
Time: All year round
As a young Chinese music brand, the fourth season of "Linglong Chinese Music" has been newly planned, and the theme has been determined as "Authenticity and Regeneration". Between the two, each concert will choose one aspect as the main exposition, and the discussion will be carried out from the perspective of the type of instrument or the content of the music.
"Authenticity" and "regeneration" seem to be opposites, but in fact they are the manifestations of the same thing at different historical nodes, and today's "authenticity" is yesterday's "regeneration". Let us work with all the viewers to construct the Ming Japanese truth of Theagi music with today's "regeneration" on the stage of Linglong Chinese Music.
When: March-May
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
In the middle of this year's Oriental Famous Opera Month, Shanghai Peking Opera House, Shanghai Shanghai Theater, Shanghai Pingtan Troupe, Shanghai One-Legged Opera Art Heritage Center (Shanghai People's Burlesque Troupe), Hangzhou Yue Theater, Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Theater (Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe), Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Kun Theater, Anhui Huangmei Drama Theater and Hubei Opera and Dance Theater will take the stage with their own works;
Shi Yihong, Fu Xiru, Mao Shanyu, Hong Doudou, Gao Bowen, Wang Rugang, Cai Zhefei, Wei Chunfang, Zhang Yiqing, Shi Xiaming, Jiang Jianguo, Yuan Yuan and many other outstanding artists took turns to appear on the stage to create an artistic feast at the doorstep of the audience.
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Shanghai Peking Opera House Modern Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain"
Shanghai Shanghai Theatre's Classic Heritage Play "Sister Jiang"
Shanghai Shanghai Theater Original Large-scale Shanghai Opera "No. 1 Secret"
Anhui Huangmei Drama Theater Huangmei Drama "Tianxian Match"
Huangmei Drama Theater in Anhui Province Huangmei Drama "Thunderstorm"
Shanghai One-Legged Opera Art Heritage Center Large-scale Burlesque "The Voice of Shanghai"
Hangzhou Yue Theater Large-scale Classic Yue Opera "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Hangzhou Yue Theater Large-scale Classic Yue Opera "Jade Dragonfly"
Shanghai Bomb Critics New Edition of "Gao Bowen Says Flowers"
Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Theater Yue Opera New Edition "Liang Zhu"
Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Theater Yue Opera "Five Girls Worship Shou"
Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Kun Theater Original Modern Kun Opera "Mei Lanfang Mei Lang of the Year"
Shanghai Peking Opera House Modern Peking Opera "Rhododendron Mountain"
Hubei Opera and Dance Theater Classic National Opera "Honghu Red Guards"
The Ordinary World
Venue: Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre
After the Shaanxi People's Art Theater successfully put the novel "White Deer Plain" on the drama stage, it invited screenwriter Meng Bing, director Gong Xiaodong, and stage designer Zhang Wu to create the drama "Ordinary World", which was widely recognized in the theater industry and society as soon as it was staged.
Screenwriter Meng Bing extracted the love of four pairs of young men and women from more than a million words of novel materials throughout the play: the life and death of Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia; the love between Sun Shaoan and Tian Runye; the love and hatred of Tian Runye and Li Xiangqian; Hao Hongmei and Tian Runsheng finally fell in love after suffering.
Venue: 1862 Fashion Art Center
Li Minyuan, Zhao Miao, Zhu Hongxuan, Ding Yiteng, as the best representatives of young theater directors in contemporary China, born in the 80s and 90s, they have been immersed in the stage for many years, and their representative works have won many awards at home and abroad, and to some extent they are no longer "new" directors, but "star" young directors with industry-leading significance.
In the "Spring Release" drama season, Taiwanese young director Li Minyuan will bring a karaoke carnival of ancient and modern silent wives from the perspective of a male director based on the first theme poem collection of the first female poet laureate in the United Kingdom, "Mrs. Fauvist"; Zhao Miao's "Aquatic" has already won the critical eyes of Chinese and Western audiences through the high score of Douban 8.6 and many international awards; "Four Machines" directed by Zhu Hongxuan, a talented woman with a knife in Yanyuan, has a strong reputation among the audience, and is known as the dark horse of the small theater in 2019 Post-90s drama creator Ding Yiteng's new work "New West Chamber" has just recently appeared at the Daliangshan Drama Festival, and it has been recommended by experts.
Plaintiff's Witness
When: February-March
Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Art Theatre
In 2011, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Shanghai Mousetrap Drama Studio and Agatha Chris Agency of the United Kingdom began a new cooperation. The "Agatha Christie Theater" program was officially launched. "Plaintiff's Witness" is the opening play of "Agatha Christie Theatre".
The original British court stage set, the fierce defense of the courtroom, the storytelling of the story plot, and the wonderful interpretation of the strong lineup are all refreshing. In each round of performances, "Plaintiff Witness" has been solidly precipitated and accumulated, and gradually sat firmly in the audience's mouth and heart of the "work of word of mouth".
"Long Hate Song"
This year's "Long Hate Song" will be starred by Zhu Jie. After leaving the public's field of vision for nearly three years, her last work before leaving the stage was "Long Hate Song", and the first work after her comeback still chose "Long Hate Song", this time, how will she interpret the Shanghai woman "Wang Qiyao" written by the writer Wang Anyi? Let's wait and see!
Venus Dance Company
Modern Dance "Wildflower", "Dream Trip"
Venue: Shanghai Daning Theatre
Founded in 1999, Shanghai Venus Dance Troupe is the first private modern dance group in China. Under the leadership of artistic director and dancer Jin Xing, the company has developed into the backbone of modern Chinese dance. The dance troupe consists of 17 outstanding dancers from all over the country.
The modern dance "Wildflower" is a new attitude of the Venus Dance Company in 2018. It took nearly 4 years to conceive and polish, and it was also the second collaboration between Venus and choreographer Arthur Kuglan. "Journey like a Dream" is a collection of six dance works with different forms and perspectives.
Othello
Venue: People's Stage
Othello is a classic tragedy by the playwright Shakespeare, known as the "Zeus on the Mount Olympus of Human Literature", and is still loved by theater audiences around the world after four hundred years.
This time, director Chen Salaryi directed "Othello" with an all-female class lineup for creation, the male roles in the play are all played by actresses, all-female actorSay Othello will have a unique aesthetic, Chen Salary's ideal of the drama is to teach the most beautiful things to the audience like religion.
The first season of the stage play "Blossoms"
Venue: Shanghai Majestic Theatre
The first season of the stage play "Blossoms" continues the aesthetic characteristics of Shanghainese and classical vernacular novels in the original text, through the childhood and adult life slices of Husheng, Xiaomao, Ah Bao, Li Li, Shu Hua, Miss Wang, Yinfeng and others, in the waves of the times, the urban texture and the fate of ordinary people are crocheted, those that have not been hidden, have been exposed, but have never been watched...
"Blossoms" is interpreted in all Shanghainese, and in order to reflect the fireworks behind this language, even all Shanghainese actors are used. In order to let the audience always immerse themselves in this texture, the mandarin subtitles throughout the performance also broke through the convention of translation and showed Shanghainese most directly in front of everyone's eyes.
Dance Drama "Crested Ibis"
Venue: Poly Shanghai City Theatre
The dance drama takes the international rare protected bird crested ibis as the theme, and behind the presentation of the crested ibis's pure beauty, elegance, cleanliness and nobility, it highlights the concept of equality and coexistence between people and other creatures in nature, and inspires the thinking of the relationship between human beings and other creatures and the natural environment - hopefully, it is not only the homeland of human beings themselves, but the common beautiful homeland.
"Crested Ibis" is a pure and beautiful dance drama, focusing on environmental protection, paying attention to the harmony between man and nature, "for the loss of the past, calling for eternal cherishing", pursuing the eternal value of truth, goodness and beauty, facing up to the problems encountered by mankind in the process of development, calling for the concept of green sustainable development, and bringing the audience emotional resonance and ideological enlightenment.
"Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" exclusive edition
Location: Upper Theater
Every spring, it is the day when the classic drama "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" is staged in Lai Shengchuan's exclusive theater, the upper theater. 2021 is the 35th year of the birth of "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden"!
More than 30 years of continuous performance have undoubtedly made it one of the most popular works of Lai Shengchuan and his [performance workshop]. Jin Shijie, Lin Qingxia, Ding Naizhu, Li Liqun, Gu Baoming, Feng Yigang, Zhao Ziqiang, Ding Naizheng, Huang Lei, Sun Li, Yuan Quan, He Jiong, Xie Na, Yu Entai, Chen Minghao, Zhao Zizin and other actors have participated in "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden". The play was also rated by the New York International Daily as "the peak of Contemporary Stage Theatre Art in China." ”
Han Tang Dance Theater "Figurine III"
Venue: Shanghai International Dance Center Theater
In August last year, the HanTang Dance Theater "Figurines: Squat Dance Me" set off a "dance storm" at the National Dance Grand Theater. The "Figurines" series is a revival of reconstructing classical dance, which is in line with Han culture, and many young sisters wearing Hanfu can also be seen on the scene to watch the performance, which can be called a beautiful landscape.
Han Tang Dance Theater "Figurine III" is a commissioned work of the 2020 Shanghai International Dance Center Theater Youth Incubation Platform and the latest work in the "Figurines" series. "Figurine III" continues the classical romance of "squatting and dancing me", and returns after comprehensive upgrading with many works such as the new works "Hairpin Flower", "Saiwai", "Tang Le Gong Tu", "Nobleman in Deep Clothes" and so on.
The musical "Countdown with You" Chinese version
Venue: Co-Stage
This is another legendary work by Jonathan Larson, author of Rent's "Yoshiya Rental" and three-time Tony Award winner, an autobiographical rock musical about Joe, a composer who lived in New York in the 90s, and hovered at the crossroads of his career on the eve of his 30th birthday.
The legendary playwright and composer who has dedicated his life to music and theater, but died of illness on the eve of his fame, has integrated his real creative experience into this "Countdown with You" tick, tick... BOOM!.
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