The Jade Rabbit bids farewell to the New Year, and the Golden Dragon celebrates the Spring Festival. The Shanghai stage is lively. The reporter learned from the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism that during the Spring Festival holiday, Shanghai's professional theaters and new performing arts spaces will present nearly 500 performances for citizens and tourists, and are expected to serve an audience of about 630,000 people. Among them, there are not only New Year concerts, but also ballets, dramas, musicals, immersive dramas, etc., as well as standard traditional Chinese New Year performances such as opera, creating a New Year scene of "the whole city is full of drama".
Dance music creates a strong festive atmosphere
In this new year, Chinese and foreign dance works gather on the Shanghai stage. From February 14th to 15th, Shanghai Ballet will perform the original modern ballet "A Dream" at the Grand Theater of Shanghai International Dance Center, giving the audience a romantic New Year gift. At the same time, the original dance drama "Nine Years of Yonghe" - Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface and Dance Biography will be performed at Shanghai Cultural Square, and the Yonghe "Calligraphy Corner" interactive activity will be launched simultaneously, preparing pen and ink for the audience, and inviting everyone to write the word "福" together. Let’s create a new atmosphere for the New Year together.
From February 23rd to 24th, 12 dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet will gather at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center to present 10 classic works from romantic, classical to modern. Among them, there are "Swan Lake", "Don Quixote" and "Raymunda" choreographed by former director Nureyev, as well as masters such as Balanchine, Béjart, Neumeier and Forsyth. s work.
Starting from the beginning of the new year, a number of New Year's concerts will be performed at the Oriental Art Center, using beautiful melodies to create a strong festive atmosphere. Among them, there are not only the Sound of Spring·Vienna Strauss Night 2024 New Year Symphony Concert, the 2024 Shanghai Children's New Year Concert (symphonic audio-visual singing version), etc., but also the "Why Are the Flowers Like This" full of classic old songs and national styles? Red - Chinese pop music classics Spring Festival New Year Concert, "Butterfly Butterfly", "Yellow River" classic songs symphony concert, etc., as well as the Shanghai 2024 New Year Animation Audiovisual Symphony Concert "Try Everything: Adventures of Traveling", which is very popular among young audiences.
Various troupes in Shanghai have also prepared generous music gifts. The Shanghai Chinese Orchestra presented many new-year performances such as the "Chinese Music in Praise of China" concert, the "Happy and Peaceful Reunion Year" Lantern Festival Concert, and the "Fiery Chinese Year" New Year Concert, playing "Phoenix Dance" and "Charda" "Shi" and other folk music works based on Chinese music tradition and reflecting the integration and innovation of multiculturalism. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra launches a series of chamber music performances for the New Year, ranging from Paganini's "Cantabile" to Ma Sicong's "Homesickness", leading music fans to wander through Chinese and foreign scenery with elegant notes.
In Shanghai, the capital of musicals, high-quality performances come one after another to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new. Broadway's immersive new production musical "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" will continue to be performed at Qiantan 31 Performing Arts Center from February 13. From now until February 25, the original Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" warmly returns to the Majestic Theater, bringing world-class audio-visual enjoyment to Shanghai audiences. At the end of the Spring Festival holiday, Shanghai Cultural Plaza will host a concert by German musical star Mark Seibert. Returning to the Shanghai stage after four years, he will join hands with Roberta Valentini, who plays "Sissi" in the musical "Elizabeth", to sing the classic melody. Shanghai Cultural Plaza will also hold supporting activities such as Mark Seibert's sharing session and special edition city walks to provide citizens with a variety of artistic experiences.
Opera and drama create a feast of traditional culture
With the popularity of the TV series "Flowers", Shanghai stories are not only heating up on the screen, this craze is also surging on the New Year stage. The Chinese New Year drama "Pretty Girl" in Shanghainese dialect has kicked off at the Shangyin Opera House, bringing an authentic "Shanghai-flavor" cultural feast to Shanghai residents on the day of family reunion, and also bringing an authentic "Shanghai-flavor" cultural feast to Shanghai residents. Audiences across the country celebrating the New Year in Shanghai can further experience the charm of Shanghai-style culture.On February 14th, Shanghai comedian "Little Wild" Shu Yue will perform two rap shows "Happily Welcome the New Year" at the Poly Cloud Theater and the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater in one day. On February 25, the classic Shanghai opera "Meeting in the Nunnery" produced by Shanghai Theater Company will meet Shanghai fans at the AIA Grand Theater on the North Bund.
The Shanghai stage is full of good shows. Peking Opera "Phoenix Returns to the Nest" by Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe, Kunqu Opera "Oiran" by Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, Star New Year version of Shanghai Opera "Ludang Fire", "Welcoming the New Year - Classic Yue Opera Excerpts", "Dragon and Phoenix Presenting Auspiciousness" Special Excerpts of Huai Opera Masters' Classics , "Dragon and Tiger Leaping for the Lantern Festival" Shanghai Pingtan Troupe special performance, etc., to accompany the audience to celebrate the New Year. A number of dramas showcasing a strong Chinese flavor will also appear in turn. From February 21st to 22nd, the national epic drama "Lancang Water", a collaboration between the famous director Wang Xiaoying and the screenwriter Yang Jun, will be unveiled at the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater, showing the contemporary connotation and artistic vitality of the work. Directed by Lin Zhaohua, written by Cui Shiyun, and starring Ni Dahong, Shi Ke, and Hao Yun, the Beijing-style drama "Yinding Bridge" will be performed at the Poly Yunjian Theater from February 23 to 24. It tells the story of an ordinary man next to the Yinding Bridge in Beijing. The story of restaurant owner Yu Wu getting involved in a ridiculous scam in order to save his ancestral business. The director uses this original realistic drama to reflect on the present and show the faces of all living beings.
During the Spring Festival, 1862 Fashion Art Center focuses on "residency + immersion" performances. The immersive food theater of the same name adapted from the highly acclaimed IP "The Lonely Gourmet" will be performed for 15 consecutive times starting from February 11, with a real-life restaurant built to bring an immersive dining experience to the audience on the stage.
Parents and families can also find their favorite programs on Shanghai Stage. The children's musical "Peter and the Wolf" directed by Liu Xiaoyi will be staged at Poly Shanghai City Theater to inspire children to move forward with a bright heart. The large-scale puppet show "The Little Match Girl" and the Ultraman series stage play "Ultra Legend of Hope" will be staged at the Poly Cloud Theater. The former interprets Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tales through novel puppet stage art performances, and the latter reproduces the Ultraman classic fairy tales. The righteous spirit and protective power of the special universe. In addition, the intangible cultural heritage parent-child shadow puppet show "Journey to the West: The Legend of the Great Sage" at Jiushushu Future Art Center, the Shanghai-style shadow puppet show "Nine-Colored Deer" at Xianles Puppet Theater, and the interactive parent-child drama "You Are the Performer 2" at China Grand Theater , China Welfare Institute Children's Art Theater Malanhua Theater's children's play "Nian Beast "Wow"" is also wonderful, allowing children to celebrate a cultural Chinese New Year in the theater.
Author: Jiang Fang
Text: Jiang Fang Picture: Performer Editor: Li Ting Editor: Xu Yang
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