In order to continue to implement the spirit of the document of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on "promoting the in-depth integration of intangible cultural heritage projects and traditional festivals" during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival, and in response to the implementation of the Spring Festival cultural activities arrangement of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government "Blessings in Beijing and Spring Festival in China", Beijing Peking Opera Theater The "National Essence of Longxiang" - the 2024 New Year Performance Season will be held during the Spring Festival.
According to Sun Peng, deputy director of the Beijing Peking Opera Theater, the "Culture of Chinese Culture" New Year performance will cover 7 theaters in Beijing and present more than 40 exciting plays, using the entire theater's efforts to create a festive atmosphere for the New Year. Xu Jian, Chairman of Beijing Poly Forbidden City Theater Management Co., Ltd., reviewed the past 15 years when Beijing Peking Opera Theater’s “artistic footprints” spread throughout the “Poly Theater Line”. The theater serves the cultural undertakings of the capital with a high degree of professionalism and good social influence. At the same time, she also expressed her expectation that both parties would work hand in hand to continue to export and supply excellent spiritual and cultural products.
According to Tan Xiaozeng, the sixth generation successor of Tan Men and Peking Opera performing artist, the theater has achieved remarkable results in echelon construction in 2023 and has a vigorous development situation. It will take this New Year performance season as a guide and adhere to the artist's sense of responsibility and the career of Peking Opera people. Heart, and contribute to polishing the "golden sign" of the Beijing Peking Opera House.
"Leading talents of Chinese drama (shengxing) in the new era", Zhang Jianfeng, a famous youth Xi school, first place in the Tsing Yi group of "China Central Radio and Television Station's first Youth Peking Opera Actors Conference" and outstanding young Tsing Yi actor Lu Jie, expressed on behalf of the theater cast and crew With a dedicated spirit, a serious attitude, a high-standard and high-quality stage presentation, the determination to contribute fine works and shoulder the mission of inheritance.
Liu Tong, director of the Beijing Peking Opera Theatre, said that the New Year performance is not only the beginning of the theater's "Year of the Dragon Performance", but also the resumption of annual artistic production. As a "refined" and "quintessential" outstanding representative form of traditional culture, Peking Opera art has the endogenous driving force and its own needs to continue to develop and grow in the new era and new opportunities. The Beijing Peking Opera Theater must comprehensively strengthen team building, continuously improve professional standards, and continue to use performance practice as an important starting point and powerful measure to nourish the artistic cultivation of Peking Opera performers.
Ma Wen, the second-level inspector of the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, pointed out that during the Spring Festival, the city’s cultural and tourism industry launched 6 series of “Celebrate the New Year” activities with the theme of “Happy Spring Festival and Enjoy the Capital”, and “Celebrate the New Year with Performing Arts” is one of the one. As the traditional "main force" and "main battlefield" of the capital's festival performances, the Beijing Peking Opera Company's various performance activities represented by this New Year's performance are an important content, important component, and important manifestation of enriching citizens' cultural life. At the
press conference, the theater’s young actors Ma Botong, Wang Yingzheng, Wang Qian, etc. also performed the arias of the traditional classic play "Detective II" on the spot.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily Reporter Guo Jia
Photography/Beijing Youth Daily Reporter Liu Chang
Editor/Qiao Ying
