On the evening of February 2, the 2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala was successfully staged at the Ningbo International Conference Center. Many programs such as "Butterfly Lovers", "Flying Heron in the Misty Rain", "Dream of the Red Mansion", "All the Way to Youth", etc., amazed the stage. Many netizens exclaimed: It turns out that Ala Ningbo can also produce such beautiful things, no less than other Great show for a big party.
started with an idea. It took more than 4 months of creation and arrangement, 10 day and night sprints to synthesize, and more than 500 actors and staff participated. How difficult is it to come up with a Ningbo Spring Festival Gala that has Ningbo characteristics and can boost morale? What are the unknown stories behind the 90-minute performance? The reporter interviewed many participants and witnesses at the scene.
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Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, which was a concentrated display of Ningbo stage art creativity and creative achievements. In the face of the call of the "team", those "fellow travelers" who had fought side by side with Ningbo's literary and artistic work have returned, showing a collective rush in the face of "centripetal force".
dancer Cheng Lin was the first heroine "Yue'er" when the show was created and produced. To a certain extent, it was also "Ten Miles of Hongzhuang" that made Cheng Lin successful.
"I was very excited to return to Ningbo to dance the role of 'Yue'er' after many years. I couldn't control myself and kept holding back." When the performance was over, Cheng Lin's tears fell.
From 2008 to 2018, she danced "Yue'er" for a total of ten years and dedicated her best years as a dancer to this role.
""Ten Miles of Red Makeup·Daughter's Dream" is my first dance drama since I started learning dance. It means a lot to me. It cultivated me and shaped me, allowing me to grow from an ordinary dancer to one who can dance the leading role. Dancer."
Video shot by: Shi Daiwei and Yang Hui
Wang Jinwen also has a similar feeling. She herself won the Plum Blossom Award, the highest honor for an opera actor, for her role as the "wife" in the Yong Opera "The Classic Wife".
"During this rehearsal, I often thought of the scene when "The Classic Wife" premiered in 2002, and the hardships and efforts the creative team put into this play." "The Classic Wife" is hailed as a milestone in the history of Ningbo Opera. The repertoire is of great significance to both Wang Jinwen and the genre. This play made Wang Jinwen a success and made Ningbo Opera, a local opera, known to audiences across the country.
Soprano Lu Wei, who played the role of "Tu Youyou" in the national opera "Yoyou Luming", came from Beijing. Lu Wei's grandfather is from Ningbo. "When I was cast for this role, I felt very cordial and involved. It seemed like I was telling my family's story and showing the emotions in my blood."
Later, Lu Wei also received many honors for this role. , it is a kind of fate and luck for her. "I have always liked this work. I love it like a child. As long as Ningbo needs it, I will come."
Hao Ruoqi, the protagonist of the dance drama "Mulan" Hao Ruoqi Due to a tight schedule, she had an early flight on the day of the performance and had to take an early flight the next day. Early flight back. She was not feeling well that day and came on stage even though she was sick. She even staggered when she walked, but she still performed a flawless "Bronze Mirror Dance" on the stage.
Also making the special trip was singer Yu Chaoying, a camel native of Ningbo Zhenhai. On the stage, she sang "Time has no words", a song she released in 2023. The content is about the recollection and sentimentality of her childhood, and the memories and longing for her hometown. "I feel extremely honored to be able to bring this song back to the stage in my hometown, and I cherish this opportunity very much."
Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, it is precisely because of these "going" and "running" without hesitation that it can present high-quality performances. Performance level.
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"You want to interview us behind the scenes? Come on, let me show you." During the rehearsal period on the evening of February 1st, Zou Jianhong, the general director of the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, took out his mobile phone and said, "This is 4 a.m. on January 24th. At 22 minutes, the video effects sent by the director team of "Butterfly Lovers·Butterfly Lovers"."
The creative dance "Butterfly Lovers" can be said to be the most stunning work of this year's Ningbo Spring Festival Gala. It uses wires to lift male and female dancers into the air, spin and fly, and unfolds in conjunction with the violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers". The big screen, The ground screen and the side screen simultaneously presented a gorgeous scene of flying butterflies, and the beautiful dreams and best wishes expressed in ancient legends came to life.
"'Butterfly Lovers' is also the most complex work in this year's Ningbo Spring Festival Gala. "Zou Jianhong said, "Because we want to break through last year and be creative, we chose this after thinking in all aspects. "
The stage of the show is in Ningbo. The director team is from Zhuhai and the multimedia production support team is in Beijing. The three places are linked and completed together.
"Don't look at a bird on the screen. It seems to be very simple to fly from right to left. , in fact, the visual design team used 3D animation to capture the dynamics and cut it out frame by frame. "Wu Sha, the director of "Butterfly Lovers" said that after arriving at the venue, in order to cooperate with the lighting to achieve a better viewing effect, the program was adjusted dozens of times, and it was still being modified before the official performance. However, rendering once requires For seven or eight hours, it has become normal for the visual team to stay up late continuously.
The situational dance "Revelation of the Golden Age" has been revised dozens of times. From the earliest idea, taking out the text draft, determining the costumes, choreographing the dance, to The final synthesis took more than 3 months. A few days after the final synthesis, the program underwent significant adjustments.
The purpose of this program is to combine water sleeves with calligraphy and painting, but how to embody the exhibition elements and have Ningbo characteristics , and at the same time, there are many problems with high-quality combination of dance sequences and multimedia effects.
For this reason, the design team carefully consulted Tianyi Pavilion to understand the essence of its collection of paintings and calligraphy. At the same time, it also had a deeper understanding of the cause and effect of the exhibition itself, and added "paintings" The "person in the middle" part makes the dancers' "entering the painting" and "writing" movements more directional, and then the final presentation is achieved.
In the view of Wang Qi, one of the choreographers of the opera program "Dream Back to the Red Mansion", the final outcome of the program The effect is already "different" from the original design. Do you want to share the stage with a symphony orchestra? How can the combination of opera and film and television songs sound less "contradictory"? How can the movements of opera actors be both "opera" and "dance" ? “It feels like there are new programs scheduled every day. "
In the past few days, "Jia Baoyu" Lu Xinrong and Twelve Chai's "cross-dressing" have gained a certain amount of traffic on the Internet. "These girls are actually from Ningbo Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe, Ningbo Yong Opera Troupe, Yinzhou Yue Opera Troupe, Selected from the three troupes of the troupe, he is very good in appearance and strength. "In this regard, the "pusher behind the scenes" Wang Qi also feels honored.
Blooming
"Every program is done perfectly. I am proud of all the cast and crew, and I am also proud of the city of Ningbo. "After the official performance on the evening of the 2nd, Zou Jianhong couldn't hide his excitement.
"More than four months of planning, creation and final wonderful presentation included the hard work of too many people. I would like to thank the audience for their high recognition and thank all the cast and crew." Go all out. " Yan Xiaoping, executive director of the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, who communicates and coordinates on the scene every day, finally showed a satisfied smile.
"The stage of this Spring Festival Gala is very brilliant, with a sense of technology, light and shadow, and a comprehensive art, with a very high texture. 'Silky'. " said Lin Hong, chairman of the Ningbo Performing Arts Group.
In recent years, domestic literary and artistic masterpieces including dance dramas and musicals have emerged in an endless stream. The audience has seen many good works and their tastes have become increasingly difficult to satisfy. As the main executive of the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala And the support team, Ningbo Performing Arts Group can only go all out when it is under great pressure.
"From creative planning, to creation, rehearsal and synthesis, as well as the guarantee of stage beauty, it can be said that all employees are mobilized and the best are available." "The high-quality literary and artistic program "All the Way to Youth" is not only a review of the main award-winning works of the performing arts group in the past 20 years, but also a collection of the development of Ningbo stage art. "I think Ningbo Performing Arts Group strives to be the first to be excellent, to be first-class, and to be the first in the country. The spirit of the array is always there, which is consistent with the spirit of the entire city of Ningbo."
Lin Hong said that culture and art are soft power, but soft power can become hard skills. The recognition of the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala shows more of the comprehensive "hard core strength" of Ningbo stage.
And next, Ningbo Performing Arts will also It will contribute more value to the development of port city culture.
It is understood that on February 23rd and 24th, the complete version of the dance drama "Mulan" will "return" to Ningbo to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ningbo Grand Theater; the dance drama "Oriental" The tour itinerary of "Dagang" has also been "unlocked" one after another. Starting from March, it will perform at the Chengdu City Concert Hall, Cixi Grand Theater, and Wenzhou Grand Theater, bringing more excitement to audiences across the country, including Ningbo.
Source: Ningbo Send client
