On January 10, the Guangzhou Opera House held a press conference for the 2020 performance season. In 2020, the Guangzhou Opera House will celebrate its 10th anniversary, and will also usher in a star-studded year, further "igniting" the enthusiasm of residents in Guangzhou and surrounding cities for cultural consumption.
< h2 toutiao-origin="h6" > Zhang Li, executive director and general manager of China Theater Line, and chairman of Guangzhou Grand Theatre, delivered a speech</h2>
According to reports, in the past ten years, more than 1,300 Chinese and foreign art groups and nearly 32,000 artists have successively appeared on the stage of the Guangzhou Opera House, bringing more than 3,900 wonderful performances and more than 1,800 artistic activities such as opera, dance, music, opera, drama and musical.
This year, the Guangzhou Opera House will jointly build the "Greater Bay Area Opera Incubation Base" with the Guangdong Pearl Film Orchestra and the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theatre, regularly exchange and promote the opportunity of joint production of tripartite operas, and will also set up a drama art center to invite playwright Tang Dong, theater director Fu Yongfan, stage designer Qin Liyun and others to create and perform new dramas with the theme of Xian Village's transformation of a new style. Post-80s theater director Wang Chong and screenwriter Zhao Binghao created the original drama of the 10th anniversary of the Guangzhou Grand Theatre with the theme of "time". In addition, the Guangzhou Opera House also launched the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth series in conjunction with the Xinghai Concert Hall, organizing more than 500 artists around the world to present the complete collection of Beethoven's works in nearly a year.
According to reports, this year, the Guangzhou Grand Theatre will open a new journey of "central-local cooperation" in the cultural field, as the flagship theater of the Chinese Theater Line, relying on the resources of the theater line to cooperate with the Palace Museum, develop joint cultural and creative products, and hold a series of lectures, so that the two cultural halls in the south and the north will burst into new sparks.
Ten national first-class actors, including Peking opera masters Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu, presented "Manjiang Hong", "Feng Hui Chao", and "Dragon And Phoenix Chengxiang"; famous actors Pu Cunxin, Xu Fan and Guo Da co-starred in the drama "Lin Zexu"; Jin Dong starred in the drama "Macbeth", directed by the well-known theater director Jonathan Mömby; Pu Cunxin, Hu Jun, and Lu Fang jointly performed "Hamlet" directed by Li Liuyi; Zheng Yunlong and Ayunga, who are both powerful and popular, will take the Chinese version of the musical "Becoming a Strange Doctor" to sweep Yangcheng, Wang Kai, Hong Zhiguang and Liu Binhao will challenge the original opera "Marco Polo" of the Guangzhou Opera House; "Storm Dancers" Hu Shenyuan and Zhu Fengwei will perform Yang Liping's work "Ten Faces Ambush"; Hao Ruoqi will "lead" the dance drama "Mulan"; Tang Shiyi, the goddess of classical Chinese dance, will hold the pipa and perform "Zhaojun" with a red qiu; Han Xue and Liu Lingfei will bring the explosive musical "White Night".
Beethoven's only opera "Federio" was brought by the Bonn Opera House in Beethoven's hometown; the China Opera and Dance Theater brought "Little Two Black Marriage"; the Beijing People's Art Theater brought the classic drama "The First Floor of the World" with a total of more than 500 performances; the Russian Mastkhaya Theater brought the "treasure of the town courtyard" "The Quiet Don River"; Robert Wilson, one of the world's most important avant-garde stage artists, brought his latest masterpiece "The Jungle Book"; the musical "Notre Dame de Paris" composer Richard Corsiant's decade-long and Chinese musical "Turandot" will be performed in Guangzhou for 14 consecutive performances.
Attached: Introduction to some of the promotional performances of the 2020 performance season of The Guangzhou Opera House
Guangzhou Opera House's original opera "Marco Polo" was specially produced for the 10th anniversary of the academy
The opera "Marco Polo" is a three-act opera sung by Chinese, whose main creative and starring teams come from all over the world and have different cultural backgrounds, which is the epitome of the cooperation between East and West, and is a symbol of the integration of Chinese and Western cultures.
The special edition of the 10th anniversary of the Guangzhou Grand Theatre invited new generation actors such as Wang Kai, Hong Zhiguang, Liu Binhao, who are both popular and powerful, as well as singers at home and abroad such as Tian Haojiang, Zhou Xiaolin, Song Qian, Liu Ying, etc., and joined hands with the Guangdong Zhuying Orchestra and the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater to lay a solid foundation for the initial test of the "Greater Bay Area Opera Incubation Base".
China Opera and Dance Theater National Opera "Little Two Black Marriage"
The national opera "Little Erhei Married" was created in 1952, adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Zhao Shuli, written by Tian Chuan and others, composed by Marco and others, telling the story of the 1940s in a mountain village called Liu Jiajun in a base area in Shanxi, where the young and handsome girl Xiaoqin and the villagers' militia leader Xiao Erhei were sincerely in love, but they were opposed and obstructed by Xiaoqin's mother Sanxiangu, Xiao Erhei's father Er zhuge and the ill-intentioned Jin Wang, and after a series of persistence and resistance, There is a story of a lover who eventually becomes a family member with the support of the district chief.
Beethoven's 250th Anniversary of the Bonn Opera House in Germany Presents the Opera "Federio"
The opera "Federio" is one of Beethoven's great works, which contains the most wonderful music ever created by mankind, the most cherished and revered work of all operas, an eternal monument about love, life and freedom, and an ode to the protection of human rights, the expression of opinions, and the raising of objections. It is a political revolt against tyrannical oppression, a celebration of the goodness and sanctity of marriage, a conviction in God and a cherishing of its most fundamental resource.
The Royal Danish Ballet brings together gala
Founded in 1748 in King's New Square, the Royal Danish Ballet is today a modern ballet that combines Danish and international dancers. While incorporating new works, the Royal Danish Ballet continues to retain its traditional character and continues to perform in the highly regarded Brunville Story Ballet. In addition, the company also performs great classics such as Giselle, Swan Lake, Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty from time to time.
Yang Liping's "Ten Faces Ambush"
"Ten Faces Ambush" is a stage work with a new concept after Yang Liping's dance drama "Peacock". This drama not only integrates chinese classical songs, but also integrates traditional artistic elements such as Peking Opera and Kung Fu, which is rooted in traditional Chinese culture and has a strong experimental color. Taking Chinese dance as the main tone, integrating the comprehensive artistic language of performance, installation art, folk music and traditional drama to create a "dance theater", it is another new attempt by Yang Liping in stage art creation.
Tao Body Theater "10"
Tao Body Theatre is one of the most high-profile and contemporary Chinese dance companies on the international stage. A four-time Winner of the New York Times, its chief art critic Alastair Macaulay has a reputation for "Dramatic Tension ... The dancer's control over body movements and a powerful driving force... Passion and Energy is so extraordinary and engaging" is highly acclaimed to describe the company's work. Voted one of the top 10 best dance performances in the world by New York Time Out magazine. Tao Body Theatre's latest work "10" in 2020 will be presented on the 10th anniversary of the Guangzhou Opera House.
Italian Zero Gravity Dance Company Aerial Magic Dance Drama "Da Vinci"
Founded by the famous Italian choreographer and director Emiliano Perisalli's (E.P.) studio, the Italian Zero Gravity Dance Company has created mostly themes of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, with gorgeous, dreamy, magical and distant styles, always paying attention to and diligently exploring the major propositions of human beings and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, reality and history. 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of leonardo da Vinci's death. In honor of this great artist, the company created famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, which will be reproduced on stage, and the work was unveiled at the 21st China Shanghai International Arts Festival in 2019.
Jonathan Momby directed Jin Dong and starred in the drama "Macbeth"
Since the beijing contemporary repertory theatre won praise for its first work "Lady of the Sea" in 2017, it has reached a cooperation with the Royal Shakespeare Company of the United Kingdom, and has cooperated with the famous British director Jonathan Momby to cooperate in the classic adaptation of "Macbeth", with the famous Japanese dancer Yuse Kuroda as the physical director and Jin Dong as the lead actor. Jonathan Momby is one of the most recognized theatre directors in the UK and around the world, having won the Helen Hayes Award for Best Director, the British Theatre Award for Best Music Production and Best Tour, and the Spanish Award for Excellence in the Arts. His masterpieces include King Lear starring Ian McLean, The Merchant of Venice (which was staged at the Canton Opera House) starring Jonathan Preson, as well as Wendy and Peter Pan, The Country Woman, Romeo and Juliet, Enemies of the People, and Salem's Witch.
Li Liuyi× Hu Jun× Pu Cunxin× Lu Fangli presented Shakespeare's classic Hamlet
This is the second Shakespeare work directed by Li Liuyi after "King Lear", the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Shakespeare Stage Translation Project". The play is a collection of first-line artists at home and abroad: Li Liuyi as the director and lighting designer; Swiss German designer Michael Simon as the stage designer; And Zhang Shuping, the hall-of-the-art director and costume stylist in Hong Kong, China, as the costume design designer. Hu Jun, Pu Cunxin, Lu Fang, Miao Chi, and other drama actors of the Beijing People's Art Theater and also well-known actors joined in and played the main roles. Among them, the ghosts of Claudius and Lao Wang are played by Pu Cunxin, and Ophelia and Queen Ge Chu are played by Lu Fang.
Lithuanian National Theatre "Deadly Rokis"
Lithuanian drama that has spread throughout the theater circle is here again, 2019's "Hypocrite" gave Chinese audiences a glimpse of the stage expressiveness of Lithuanian theater, and in 2020, the Lithuanian National Theatre will bring Polish director Twakovski's "Deadly Rokis". Tevakovsky studied under the drama master Christian Lupa, specializing in visual arts and multimedia technology, and was responsible for the creation and production of images in Heroes' Square and Alcoholics.
In Deadly Rockies, he gives full play to his strengths, integrating literature, architecture, audiovisual art, film and other disciplines. Tevakovsky believes that the stage is an extension of reality, which is based on the novel "Rokis" by the French writer Prospere Mérime and two real cases that occurred in Lithuania, trying to dig out the truth of the mystery through images, but when people increasingly believe that the images after repeated processing and editing, the truth goes farther and farther.
Robert Wilson, Coco Rothy Musical Play "The Jungle Book"
Published in 1894 and best-selling for a century, the Jungle Book is the most influential and popular masterpiece of the Nobel Prize winner and famous British novelist Rudyard Kipling. Its peculiar and rich imagination and vivid portrayal of bravery, sincerity and love have touched generations of readers. The Book of the Jungle, which will be performed on stage, is directed by robert Wilson, a world-renowned avant-garde theatre master invited by the Paris City Theatre, one of the most important theaters in France, and co-produced by several internationally renowned theatres and international festivals, creating a moving work suitable for audiences of all ages.