Nandu News Reporter Xu Xiaolei Correspondent Yao Hui Yesterday, the Guangzhou Opera House held a 2019 performance promotion meeting, which was particularly attracted attention to the fact that the four classic operas of "Rigoletto", "Masquerade Ball", "Long March" and "Don Juan" will appear one by one, which is the largest number of operas in the history of the Grand Theatre, which can be called the year of opera. At the same time, this year's Guangzhou Opera House dance drama works are diverse and wonderful: Chinese dances include Cloud Gate Dance Collection, Yang Liping, and Youren Shen Drum; Western classics, such as British National Treasure Choreographer Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake" and the world-renowned St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet in Russia.
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The Grand Theatre ushers in the "Year of opera"
Four Chinese and foreign classics appeared
2019 is the year of opera at the Guangzhou Opera House. The Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Italy, the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, the National Centre for the Performing Arts of China, and the Grand Theatre of Bordeaux in France are all here. "Rigoletto", "Masquerade", "Long March", "Don Juan", classics to meet the audience.
In early May, the opera Rigoletto will appear. As the most proud of the 26 operas of the 26 operas of the life of the opera master Verdi, "Rigoletto", together with "La Traviata" and "Troubadour", is known as the three masterpieces of Verdi's mid-period. Many of the play's highlights have been sung around the world, including the classic quartet "Praise You, Beautiful Eros" and the famous aria "Woman Fickle", which is known as the miracle of Italian opera and is extremely difficult to interpret.
Bringing "Rigoletto" to Guangzhou this time is the Genoa Carlo Felice Opera House from italy, which is also one of the top ten opera houses in Italy and the first Italian opera house to visit China, in June 1986, Pavarotti, one of the world's three tenors, led the Genoa Opera House to perform Puccini's opera "Bohemian" at the Beijing Tianqiao Theater.
Immediately following and alternately appearing with Rigoletto is Verdi's maturing work Masquerade, a reserved play of major opera houses around the world, with an intriguing plot that has reached a truly majestic and magnificent level in both form and content. This classic is performed by the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Italy, which was built in 1792 and is recognized as one of the most splendid opera houses in the world, where many famous operas such as La Traviata, Rigoletto and El Nani have been premiered.
In early July, Mozart's classic opera Don Juan will be the finale of the new Guangzhou Arts Festival. This "only work to date that has not been subjected to malicious criticism" has also been called "the most perfect opera to date". Directed by Laurent Laffargue, this edition of Don Juan is a modern interpretation of the classic opera, giving Don Juan a new lease of life, and this will be the first time the work will be in China.
In addition to Western classic operas, the Guangzhou Opera House also welcomed the original Chinese epic opera "Long March", which will land in Guangzhou for the first time in late May and early June. Based on the true history of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, "The Long March" faithfully reproduces the arduous process of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in a realistic way. "Long March" was composed by Yin Qing, written by Zou Jingzhi, and directed by Tian Qinxin and Yang Xiaoyang.
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Yang Liping Lin Huaimin Chinese interpretation
British all-male ballet subverts the classics
In April, the Cloud Gate Dance Collection will bring two works by Lin Huaimin, and the double dance works of "White Water" and "Dust" are often performed together, and the different styles create a strong dramatic tension.
At the end of June, "Pingtan Yingxiang" will take the stage, which is the third series of works of the well-known dance artist Yang Liping after "Yunnan Yingxiang" and "Huangshan Yingxiang", which is the first super folk work with marine themes directed by her, and it is a "Taiwan Cultural Masterpiece" with international vision and high artistic standards.
In September, the dance drama "Swan Lake" choreographed by the British national treasure choreographer (M atthewBourne) takes you to appreciate the power and beauty of all-male ballet. In 1995, Matthew Bourne's choreographed ballet Swan Lake premiered at London's Sadler Wells Theatre, and the version of Swan Lake boldly used an all-male class dancer to play the swan, completely subverting the original work, winning more than 30 awards since its premiere, and being the longest-running ballet in London's West End and Broadway in New York.
The prestigious St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet in Russia will perform a double dance after Matthew Bourne. St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet, known as the "new business card of Russian ballet". His works not only show the highest level of Russian contemporary ballet art, but also contain Russia's immortal spiritual heritage and the wisdom of world culture, and have been awarded the highest honor by the Russian government——— "National Art Troupe".
The ballet's choreographer, Boris Eifman, has been called "one of the world's premier choreographers.". One of his works, The Brothers Karamazov, is a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel of the same name. Our Ballet Theatre was the first in the world to follow and produce Dostoevsky's works. ”
The second dance is "Anna Karenina", which is well known to Chinese audiences, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name, which is a work full of emotional tension.
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The Youren God Drum will bring new works
The dance shows the profound heritage of China
At the end of October, the Youren Shengu will return to the Guangzhou Opera House to show the Yoshimitsu Katayu, which has a deep heritage in China, with a dance. "Five Colors of Ink" is a new classic creation of Liu Ruoyu and Huang Zhiqun, the drum of The Youren God, and the colorful paintings of the splash color change and move on the stage through multimedia projection, with the powerful drum song and soft limb display of the Youren God Drum, which timely presents the imaginary space of ink "feasible, observable, habitable and swimworthy".
At the end of the year, the Cloud Gate Dance Collection and the Tao Body Theater will exchange works, and will bring together the Cloud Gate Dance Collection, Cloud Gate 2, Tao Body Theater, Lin Huaimin, Zheng Zonglong, Tao Ye, three performance groups, three artists for the first time to perform three works, exchange choreography. Cloud Gate dancers perform Lin Huaimin's "Autumn Water", Tao Ye's "12", and Tao body dancers perform Zheng Zonglong's "Multiplication". This was also Lin Huaimin's last mainland tour before retiring and leaving office.
In addition, the theater's drama scene can also be remarkable, including the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre's emotional masterpiece "Marriage", the Russian Wakhtangov Theater 'Divine Drama" "Yevgeny Onegin", the "Sacred Drama" of the Vakhtangov Theater, which is well-known in the contemporary world drama world and has swept through the Wuzhen Drama Festival with zero bad reviews, romeo and Juliet Choir will present two musical dramas "Macbeth" and "Ten Days of Talk", the dialect drama "One Sentence Top 10,000 Sentences", and the Sichuan Renyi version of "Tea House".
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The world-renowned Leipzig String Orchestra
Debuted in Guangzhou to play a symphony
On 6 June, the world-renowned Leipzig Gew andhausorchester will make its debut in Guangzhou, bringing Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony to and orchestra music director Andris Nelsons, the world's hottest conductor.
Founded in 1743, the Leipzig Haus Orchestra ranked No. 4 on the 2015 Bachtrack Global Symphony Orchestra Chart, the authoritative website of British classical music, and the famous composer Mendelssohn served as the orchestra's music director for 12 years, including Brahms, Schubert and other composers who have personally performed with the orchestra.
Schedule
opera
May 9/11
Italian Opera Carlo Felice Opera Verdi Opera "Rigoletto"
May 10/12
Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy Verdi opera "Masquerade"
May 31 - June 2
National Centre for the Performing Arts Original Epic Opera "Long March"
July 6 - 7
Guangzhou Opera House, Bordeaux Opera, And Cirque du Soleil co-produced the opera "Don Juan"
concert
June 6
Symphony concert of the Leipzig Haus Orchestra
July 16-17
Drum Boy "Spiral"
ballet
February 22 - 24
Large-scale folk dance drama "Wake Up The Lion"
April 12 - 13
Cloud Gate Dance Collection "White Water" "Dust"
June 26 - 30
Yang Liping's dance drama "Pingtan Reflection"
August 28 - 29
Beijing Contemporary Ballet
September 20 - September 22
Matthew Bourne Ballet "Swan Lake"
September 25 - 26
Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia "The Brothers Karamazov"
September 28 - 29
St. Petersburg, Russia Eifman Ballet "Anna Karenina"
October 25 - 26
Youren God Drum "Ink Five Colors"
December 27 - 28
The Cloud Gate Dance Set is exchanged with the Tao Body Theater
drama
March 15 - 16
Hong Kong Repertory Theatre "Marriage"
May 2 - 4
Vakhtangov Theatre Drama "Yepgheny Onegin"
June 18
Romeo and Juliet Choir Musical Drama "Macbeth"
June 19
Romeo and Juliet Choir Musical Drama "Decameron"
June 15 - 16
Dialect drama "One sentence top 10,000 sentences"
June 22 - 23
Sichuan People's Art Theater "Tea House"
March 29 - 30
Very Lin Yihua's first musical "The Successors of Liang Zhu"
April 19 - 28
Broadway original burning musical "School of Rock"
May 15 - 26
The Musical The Wizard of Oz
August 8 - 14
London's Original West End Musical Matilda
Cross-media performances
March 18
Symphony concert of the movie Star Wars: A New Hope
July 24 - 28
"Rose Life" theatrical concert
Traditional opera
July 30 - 31
Beijing Peking Opera House "The Gate of the Great Mansion"