During the Spring Festival, 147 sets of 208 opera performances will be organized in the three places to promote the deepening of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei literary and artistic cooperation, and to showcase the unique charm and style of the times of China's excellent traditional culture.
Nearly 100 opera performances in Beijing were staged during the Spring Festival, covering Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Ping Opera, Hebei Bangzi, Beijing Opera and other genres. The 2024 "Celebrating the New Year" series of performances of the National Peking Opera Company will be staged from the first day to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and seven performances including "Suo Lin Bag" and "Shilang Visits Mother" will be staged at the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater; The Beijing Peking Opera Company will launch the 2024 Spring Festival Performance Season of the Beijing Peking Opera Company at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing Arts Center, Chang'an Grand Theater and Jixiang Grand Theater, and stage classic plays such as "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", "Dabaoguo, Exploring the Emperor's Mausoleum, and Entering the Palace". The Northern Kunqu Opera Theater held the "New Year, New Chapter" classic Kunqu Opera New Year performance season, bringing traditional repertoire such as "The Peony Pavilion" and "The Legend of the West Chamber"; China Ping Theater will launch the 2024 New Year performance season, and Ping Opera "Flowers as the Matchmaker" and "Qin Xianglian" will celebrate the New Year with the audience. Beijing Hebei Bangzi Opera Troupe and Beijing Opera Troupe will bring familiar high-quality repertoire to the audience. Zhengyi Ancestral Hall, Daxing Theater, Shunyi Theater, and Shunyi Grand Theater carry out opera performances, so that more citizens can experience the charm of traditional culture up close.
Tianjin Peking Opera Troupe, Tianjin Youth Peking Opera Troupe, Tianjin Hebei Bangzi Theater, Tianjin Pingju Baipai Troupe and other troupes will bring nearly 50 wonderful performances to major theaters in Tianjin during the Spring Festival. Peking Opera "Farewell My Concubine", "Yutang Spring", Pingju "Qiankun Belt", "Yang Bajie You Chun" and other wonderful performances, ""Golden Dragon He Chun" Peking Opera Concert", "Pingju Hongpai Art Excerpts Special", "Hundred Flowers Gathering - Yue Opera Excerpts" and other famous concerts were staged in turn. For example, the Tianjin Theatre Museum (Guangdong Hall) will hold 9 special Peking Opera events, and use the art flash mob form to hold the "Tianjin First Bell Rings You" - a New Year welcome flash mob performance at key points such as transportation hubs and landmark buildings, so that traditional art can dialogue with fast-paced urban life.
More than 70 performances of opera into the countryside, performances of local endangered operas, performances of famous opera troupes, and flash mobs of "Meet Art" opera will be carried out in various parts of Hebei Province. Among them, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Handan, and Langfang will successively stage Hebei Bangzi's "Zhong Kui", "Erjin Palace", Henan Opera "Mu Guiying in Charge" and "The Fifth Generation", as well as an endangered drama - Gaocao Opera public welfare performance in Zhuangzhuang Village. Tangshan City will organize the "Liyuan Opera Fans Sing and Compete for Phoenix City" Opera Fan Event Month Activity, and Hengshui City will organize a ticket friend competition.
Artists from the three places will also strengthen mutual visits and exchanges during the Spring Festival. Beijing will invite art groups and artists from Tianjin and Hebei to perform in Beijing. At that time, Tangshan Leting Drum, Jingdong Drum, Xihe Drum, Jingyun Drum, and other intangible cultural heritage inheritors will bring the drum song "Longteng Drum Rhyme - Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Drum Song for the New Year" to the audience in the capital; Tangshan Shadow Puppet Troupe performed the mythological shadow puppet play "Journey to the West: Flaming Mountain"; Tianjin Hebei Bangzi Troupe joined hands with Wang Yinghui, a national first-class actor and veteran actor of Beijing Hebei Bangzi Troupe, to perform Hebei Bangzi's "Kou Zhun"; China Ping Theater and Shijiazhuang Ping Opera Troupe staged the traditional Ping Opera "Flowers as the Matchmaker".
The Beijing Opera Troupe will also go on tour in the Tianjin-Hebei region. Dou Xiaoxuan, a young Mei School Tsing Yi master of the Beijing Peking Opera Company, and Li Hongtu, a famous Ye School student, will perform "The Legend of the Jade Hairpin" in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, and a number of Peking Opera artists will go to Xingtai, Hebei Province to perform "Famous Artists and Famous Duan Concert"; The newly rehearsed Ping Opera "The Legend of the White Snake" by the China Ping Theater and the Hebei Bangzi "Wang Baochuan" starring the Plum Blossom Award winner Wang Hongling will be staged at the Tianjin Wuqing Film Theater.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Peking Opera, Pingju, Hebei Bangzi, Baoding Old Tune, and Sigu Opera masters from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei will stage the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Opera Masters New Year Concert" in the ** Hall of Zhongshan Park to jointly send New Year blessings to the people; Hebei will hold the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei opera performance of "Singing One Opera Together", and the Bangzi Troupe of the three places will sing the classic repertoire of Bangzi together.