Beijing**Client|Reporter Gao Qian Fang Fei.
At the end of the year in Beijing, the lively performance market once again set off a new climax: this weekend (December 23-24), in the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the opera house, the drama venue, the first hall, and the small theater are all openIn the Beijing People's Art Theater, the New Year's Eve masterpiece "Zhang Juzheng" and two small theater masterpieces "Farewell My Concubine" and "When She is Dying" are staged at the same time;Tianqiao Performing Arts Center opens three theaters and multi-purpose halls, large, medium and small, and the first drama "Once Once" and "Bouquet for Algernon" and the small theater Peking Opera "The Miser" are parallel, epitomizing the dialogue and blending ...... of ancient and modern China and foreign countries
Such a grand scene almost runs through the Beijing stage in 2023. This year, with the gradual resumption of cultural exchanges, Beijing's performance market has accelerated its heating up, providing audiences with a year-round cultural feast.
Keywords: blowout recovery.
More than 40,000 performances covered tens of millions of audiences.
According to statistics, from January to November 2023, a total of 44,701 commercial performances were held in Beijing, with an audience of 1,064For example, in July this year, the box office of Tianqiao Performing Arts Center exceeded 100 million yuan, and the last annual record of breaking 100 million yuan was born in September 2019.
As a national cultural center, Beijing has witnessed too many highlight moments in the past year: at the beginning of the year, intensive New Year's events were staged one after another, setting off the first wave of performancesIn March, Maestro Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra returned to Beijing after a long absence, causing a sensation throughout the countryThe original French version of "Romeo and Juliet", the Chinese version of "** Count of Mountain", the Chinese version of "The Phantom of the Opera" and other ** dramas continue to appear on stage, and are very popular among young audiences;Popular dance dramas such as "Dream of Red Mansions" and "The Eternal Wave" toured Beijing, and tickets were hard to find"Confucius – What are we talking about when we talk about Confucius?"."The Quiet Don River", "A Dream Like a Dream" and the whole "Peony Pavilion" and other "Hong" works lead the marathon drama viewing experience, bringing new signals and thinking ...... to the industry
In the "City of Performing Arts", there are many big operas and famous artists, and only the 2023 "Mellow Classical" series of performances of the National Centre for the Performing Arts will invite Theodore Curlenzis, Daniel Gatti, Zheng Mingxun, Christian Thielmann, Ivan Fischer and many other world-renowned world-class conductors, which ultimately demonstrates the strong appeal of Beijing, a major classical town. This year, the purchase of tickets to set an alarm clock and fight for speed has become an unforgettable collective memory for many audiences.
Keywords: integrity and innovation.
Produced in Beijing, "Continuing Chinese Culture."
In 2023, a large number of new works will be released, and the emphasis and excavation of Chinese culture is the consensus of the main creative team.
At the beginning of the year and the end of the year, Beijing Renyi's two New Year's Eve dramas "Under the Red Flag" and "Zhang Juzheng" were adapted from literary masterpieces, interpreting and enriching traditional culture and Beijing culture in a unique way of stage artThe ** drama "Awakening Age" jointly produced by Beijing Radio and Television Station and Happy Twist is based on the phenomenal TV series of the same name, and uses the integration of rap, ethnic, pop and other diverse styles to inject a young and fashionable expression into the red themeThe two premieres of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, "Song of Youth" and "Yingshan Hong", have made many attempts and ...... for Chinese opera creation while giving a new interpretation of classic stories
Integrity and innovation are the concepts that Zhang Qianyi, the composer of "Song of Youth" and "Yingshan Hong", adhered to when he created it. When creating "Yingshan Hong", he took over the baton from Fu Gengchen, an older generation composer who wrote many well-known episodes for the movie "Shining Red Star", and used colorful sound to explore the organic combination of ** and language, folk songs and operas, symphony and nationalization. In essence, "Yingshan Hong" continues to move forward along the road of classic national operas such as "The White-Haired Girl", "Honghu Red Guards", "Sister Jiang" and "The Party's Daughter". Zhang Qianyi said. Fu Gengchen once expected that the composition style of "Yingshan Hong" could follow the principle of "sinicization of modern techniques, nationalization of language, and scientific structure", and this work, which was sold out in the first round of 5 performances, can be regarded as a moving answer sheet to the previous artists, and also left a useful experience for future generations.
"Reflecting the Red Mountain" is not an exception. Generations of Chinese artists have been rooted in the soil and passed on from generation to generation, so that Chinese stories and Chinese voices continue to flow and converge into a majestic sound.
Keywords: communication world.
The wonderful stage witnesses cultural exchanges.
In 2023, foreign artists will come in droves, becoming a particularly dazzling scenery on the Beijing stage.
On March 12, cellist Jan Vogler appeared in the ** Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Since the epidemic, foreign artists have long been absent from the domestic stage, and the arrival of Jan Vogler is an important symbol of the return of foreign artists to China. Since then, the market has been full of stars, with an unprecedented 15-member "heavenly troupe" Bolshoi Ballet, the internationally renowned Eternal Orchestra, and the 475-year-old Dresden State Orchestra ......The wonderful performances not only presented the pinnacle of art, but also forged a friendship of exchange and mutual learning.
This year, the most familiar master to Beijing audiences is none other than Gergiev, who has visited Gergiev three times. In 1998, he and the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra performed for the first time at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and in the past 25 years, not only the National Centre for the Performing Arts across the street has been put into operation, but also the Beijing Art Center, which has reached the world's advanced level, in the sub-center of the city. In October, Gergiev and the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra took the stage at the new Beijing Arts Center, becoming the first international art groups to perform at this new cultural landmark.
In November, Beijing set off a wave of cultural exchanges between China and the United States. The American Ballet Theater and the Philadelphia Orchestra have visited the Philadelphia Orchestra, among which the Philadelphia Orchestra is the first American symphony orchestra to visit China in history. Since 1973, 50 years have passed, the situation has changed, but the friendship has never faded, within a week, Fei Jiao has cooperated with the China Symphony Orchestra and the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, and the artists of the two countries have crossed all kinds of barriers with the help of the common language of **, and performed side by side. As Rayend, Executive Director of the Feigan and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, puts it, "We are all facing a time of great change, and we have always had the power to guide us. ”