On the evening of December 12, the modern opera "Ode to Danshui" was reported and performed at the Taihu Stage Art Center of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Hou Junshu, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, Zhu Shixi, Secretary of the Nanyang Municipal Party Committee, Wang Zhizhi, Mayor of Nanyang City, and Lu Xinhong, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Tongzhou District, Beijing attended the meeting.
Nanyang City leaders Zhang Shengqi, Zhang Fuzhi, Ma Bing, Li Peng, Zhou Dapeng, Li Jiakun, A Ying, Yang Shuguang, Zhou Huafeng, Hua Daomei ** performance.
"Ode to Danshui" is carefully created by the Nanyang Opera Art Center, created in 2016, and began to enter the creation and rehearsal in July 2017.
At 7 o'clock that night, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Taihu Stage Art Center was full, and in the affectionate interpretation of the actors, a magnificent picture of the times jumped in front of you. Thousands of miles of canals, originating in Nanyang. As the "big water tank", "faucet" and "long water pipe" of the middle line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Nanyang takes water - half of the total area of the Danjiangkou Reservoir is in Nanyang, and most of the first-class and second-class protection zones of water transmission sources are in Nanyang. From the initial project of Danjiangkou Reservoir in the 50s of the last century to the middle line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, 36The 80,000 immigrants "gave up their small homes for the country", writing a magnificent chapter in the history of water conservancy construction in the world. The play depicts the sacrifice and dedication of the people of Nanyang for the construction of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in an artistic panorama manner, eulogizes the heroic feelings of the migrant cadres who "dedicate their hearts to the blue sea and build the long river to run Jinghua", and vividly presents the touching stories of the immigrant villagers spreading the future in their new homes and continuing to write the spirit of immigrants in the new era.
The beautiful singing, wonderful stories, and superb performances deeply touched every audience, and the applause on the scene was thunderous and enduring. (Reporter Bai Banxue Fan Zhiqin) (*Nanyang**).