Christoph Eisen** and the China Shanghai International Arts Festival Festival Festival Orchestra Large Outdoor Symphony** Scene.
Everyone wants to come here, and it's a huge success for Shanghai!Rodriguez, Artistic Director of the Avignon Theatre Festival in France, speaks at the Shanghai International Arts Festival in China. "This year's Shencheng stage is full of highlight moments" and "There are so many famous dramas premiered, it is too difficult to choose the best of the year......".In the past few days, this reporter has heard many exclamations from the heads of major theaters in Shanghai during interviews. In 2023, there will be countless moving moments on the Shanghai stage, with stars shining at home and abroad, highlighting the attractiveness and influence of this international cultural metropolis.
During the five-hour piano marathon, Matsuev's performance at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center set a new Chinese stage recordAt the age of 82, Domingo, the king of opera, returns to the banks of the Pujiang River, and the 475-year-old Staatskapelle Dresden presents two romantic evenings under the baton of ThielemannThe Cadillac Shanghai Hall witnessed the Asian premiere of the opera "Rodrinda", with Yuja Wang, Capuçon, Angela Georgiou and others taking turns to ......The wonderful scenes of top famous artists and troupes, and the debut of blockbuster new works, composed unforgettable movements in the hearts of Shanghai music fans.
Stills from the Shanghainese ** drama "The Myth of Love".
Complementing the feast brought by international celebrities, a number of locally produced "Shanghai productions" lead the country in the ** drama industry, making the signboard of "La La Land" more shining. The Chinese version of "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered in Shanghai, handing over 6A dazzling report card of 50,000 viewers and a box office of 48.5 million, and a large number of Shanghai productions represented by the Shanghainese ** drama "Love Myth" are a love letter sent to the industry by local ** drama practitioners who have accumulated steadily. The theater repertoire is both new, attracting "special forces" from all over the country to watch the drama, the long queue at the ticket booth, and the suitcases stored in the theater are all moving scenery in the world of performing arts.
The classical ** feast releases the enthusiasm of "two-way running".
Christophe Eisen**, Angela Georgiou, Maxim Vengerov, Valery Gergiev, Christian Thielemann, Placido Domingo ......In the second half of this year, the international superstars who concentrated on the stage in Shanghai witnessed the proud "circle of friends" of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival. After a three-year absence, the artists and Shencheng music fans have released their enthusiasm for "two-way running", and the atmosphere in the theater is warm and touching.
The marathon of Rachmaninov's Complete Piano Concerto brought by Matsuev can be called the "hit" of the Shanghai performance in 2023, and the nearly 5-hour event attracted music fans from all over the country. On Xiaohongshu, netizens think that this hurricane-style performance is enough to "go down in history" - Matsuev's performance is full of emotion and hearty!At the end of the last Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3, the audience stood up, and the boiling cheers almost toppled the roof of the ** hall. ”
Another popular pianist, Wang Yujia, who was sold out immediately after the official announcement, and the second performance was over, and the first performance of six pieces was still unfinished, and on the second night, he performed nine encore pieces in a row. What makes Wang Yujia so "free of himself" on the Shencheng stage?It turned out that it was the beautiful atmosphere of Shanghai music fans who listened with bated breath that made her linger. As the famous conductor Thileman said, rather than enthusiastic applause, the audience is more concerned about listening - "whether we are concentrating on appreciation, we can feel it on stage". The music fans of Shanghai who live in the City of Music have not only responded enthusiastically to the performers after the performance, but also listened attentively when the notes were played, which is not a concrete embodiment of the city's cultural soft power.
It's too top" and "* hall of the year" ......Not long ago, Cadillac Shanghai Hall ushered in the Asian premiere of Handel's opera "Rodrinda", which is the only stop in China. "As an international cultural metropolis, Shanghai has a group of loyal classical enthusiasts, and the first version of the opera "Rodrinda" is most consistent with the temperament of the Shanghai ** hall in terms of stage and sound effects, which contributed to the Asian premiere of the work here. Liu Xia, deputy manager of the program department of the Shanghai ** hall, said. In the view of Chen Jie, an assistant researcher at the Shanghai Art Research Center, such a lightweight, high-level world-class classical performance is also similar to Shanghai's urban temperament. This elegant and authentic baroque performance has been well received on Xiaohongshu, reflecting the continuous maturity of the performance market in Shanghai and highlighting the attractiveness of the city's cultural atmosphere.
The original new drama and "produced in Shanghai" set a benchmark in the industry.
In Shanghai at the turn of spring and summer this year, the Chinese version of "The Phantom of the Opera", jointly produced by Shanghai Media Performing Arts Group and British Really Good Group, can be called the most popular performance in the ** drama capital. 40 games, nearly 650,000 viewers and a box office ...... of over 48.5 million yuanThe series of figures written in the 34 days of the performance of the play in Shanghai have set a new record in China's first-class drama and even the drama performance market, handed in a brilliant report card for the Chinese interpretation of this world classic ** drama, and pushed the development of China's first-class drama industry to a new height. "Challenging this classic work with a huge scale and extremely testing the close cooperation of various stage types of work is inseparable from the hard work of domestic first-class dramatists and the in-depth cooperation of Chinese and foreign teams over the years. Ma Chencheng, president of Shanghai Media Performing Arts Group and chief producer of the Chinese version of "The Phantom of the Opera", said that the localization of the Chinese version of "The Phantom of the Opera" provides a benchmark for the industry's production process and industrial model, and the valuable experience will likely help more domestic original and new ** dramas in the future.
Let high-quality ** dramas become the golden sign of Shanghai's performing arts market, which is the pride of Asia's performing arts capital. In the past year, practitioners intend to build Shanghai, the capital of first-class opera, into the source of Shanghai-style creation and the wharf of international frontier through the introduction and production of new repertoire of first-class dramas at home and abroad. The original English drama "The Phantom of the Opera: True Love Eternal" started its China tour at the North Bund AIA Grand Theatre, a new landmark of culture and art on the North Bund in Shanghai, announcing that the Chinese ** drama stage will once again run the same line with London's West End and New York's Broadway Station after three yearsThe ** drama "The Myth of Love", adapted from the movie of the same name, as the opening drama of the "Performing Arts World 2023 9th Shanghai International Comedy Festival", has exploded in popularity in Shanghai Cultural Square, making the theater's ticket rate and attendance rate hit a new high on the National Day.
The coffee shop at the west exit of Anfu Road, the revolving door of the Drama Art Center, the shoemaker's shop, and the sign on Huashan Road ......In the theater, the leading actors of "The Myth of Love" spoke Shanghainese with various accents, singing and dancing on the road and in the vegetable market. "Very life, very human, very artistic" - the famous composer Kim Fujae's comment on the play represents the recognition of many famous artists in the industry. As the composer Peng Fei said: "I hope to use ** to convey the wisdom, elegance, witty, diligence, creativity, and romantic spirit of new and old Shanghainese." As he said, this ** drama is a "love letter" that makes people fall in love with Shanghai. With the continuous development and growth of local first-class drama practitioners, Shanghai-produced first-class dramas of different sizes, such as "Hamlet", "South Wall Project", "Yang Jian" and "Thorn Qin", have been staged in large, medium and small theaters in Shencheng.
Shanghai's ** drama market is an 'art treasure box' that accommodates diverse aesthetics, which is constantly renovated and upgraded to a higher level, so that audiences in Shanghai and even the whole country can enjoy it, and enhance everyone's sense of gain and happiness in watching dramas. Fei Yuanhong, deputy general manager of Shanghai Cultural Square, said.
Author: Jiang Fang.
Text: Reporter Jiang Fangtu: Ye Chenliang, Wenguang Performing Arts Editor: Fu Lu Responsible Editor: Xing Xiaofang.
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