There is a show to watch every week, and the Cantonese charm of the Bay Area starts with you!
What's going on this week? The drama "Train", the musical "The Young Lion", the stage play "Pingtan Image", the costume Cantonese opera "The Romance"...
- Guangzhou -
The musical "The Young Lion" Cantonese version
Time: 5 March 13-14
Venue: Guangzhou Grand Theater Opera Hall
A lion comes out of a boy, and his fighting spirit is as high as the sky! The musical "Lion Boy" tells the story of an ordinary boy who went through ups and downs to learn from a teacher, dance the lion head, and jump high. The story of relentless pursuit of dreams. The whole play slowly unfolds under the fusion of music, dance and lion dance. The storyline is twists and turns, soul-stirring, the lines are full of laughter and inspiring, and the 20 original songs integrate diverse music styles, including traditional drum music, pop songs, rock, Lyrical tunes, local operas, folk songs, flamenco and other musical elements all add to the excitement of the lion and ignite the flames of young people's dreams. In the play, music is used to promote the development of the plot and stir up emotions. At the same time, a large number of Cantonese idioms are used in the lyrics and lines to show the strong Lingnan style. It is composed of keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, violin, cello, flute and other musical instruments. The live band played highly infectious music, bringing both auditory and visual enjoyment to the audience.
Train | Zhang Guangtian’s drama works
Time: May 14th
Location: South Hunan Artists Summer Palace
This play is adapted from the fourth chapter of the second series of Mr. Zhang Guangtian’s novel "The Day to Chase", retaining the best of the author's words The most attractive part is interlocking and fascinating. The story begins with the self-narrator "I" and takes the audience from Vienna to Nuremberg, from Chuzhou to Shanghai, from Beijing to the Hung Hom Stadium in Hong Kong, from Khanbali to St. Petersburg, experiencing the geographical scenery and experiencing the warmth and heat of the human world. . "I" first met Shen Minyi, and finally met Xiang'er; the same person or the same dream, the same flesh and blood or different souls? As the original author wrote: "The morning glow and the sunset glow are equally amazing. If you ignore the sunshine coming from direction, morning light and dusk are the same light color. ""When I touch your fingertips, when I enter your breath, I know that you are the body of fate, which was already there before my life." "It turns out. It is so simple to give yourself to fate. In fact, it is to give yourself to a flesh-and-blood you. If this is destined, can we love without any worries?" "Love is a gift that relieves the hard work of life. I don't want to. Treat love as a god and then be a slave to love. If you can always be grateful and grateful, it proves that I love you. "
The life and times of Michael ·k is adapted from the novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize winner. 》
Time: May 16-17
Location: Opera Hall of Guangzhou Grand Theater
Michael K is a low-class young man born in Cape Town, South Africa, with a harelip. In war-torn South Africa, Michael K embarks on a journey to take his sick mother back to her rural home. His mother died on the way, leaving Michael K alone in this chaotic world, surrounded by brutal armies wandering around. Michael was imprisoned, but he could not accept his imprisonment and was determined to live with dignity, so he escaped and went to a place where no one could find him... A simple man traveling through the materially and morally depleted landscape of South Africa. An epic journey.
British TNT Theater original version of Shakespeare's classic comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Time: May 17-18
Location: Guangzhou Zhengjia Grand Theater
The Athenian girl Hermia disobeyed her father's orders and fell in love with Lysander. They escaped late at night In Athens, Helena and her lover Demetrius also chased into the forest. In the forest, the Fairy King and the Fairy Queen turned against each other. In retaliation, the Fairy King asked the elf to drop acacia juice into the Fairy Queen's eyes, making her fall in love with the first thing she saw. Because the elf ordered the wrong flower juice, there was a dispute between lovers. In the end, the fairy king lifted the magic, the fairy queen and the fairy king reconciled, and the lovers finally got married.TNT artistic director Paul Stebbing said that "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is well-deserved to become Shakespeare's most popular comedy. The world of madness, love, poetry and magic has achieved the perfect combination of comedy and romance, making this Shakespeare's work written in 1596 to celebrate the wedding of a friend has become a tribute to love across time and space. Shakespeare used joyful writing methods to bring the elves, historical heroes and mythical figures from British folklore to the same stage, and what made them integrated was the free spirit and vitality deeply rooted in tnt's works.
The stage play "Image of Pingtan" directed by Yang Liping
Time: May 17
Location: Guangdong Friendship Theater
"Image of Pingtan" uses the narrative method of romantic classical myth to explore the long-standing Chinese tradition Folk culture provides a contemporary reinterpretation and re-expression, constructing a common maritime cultural scene and context across the Taiwan Strait. It uses the imagistic New Oriental aesthetics as the aesthetic concept, integrates intangible heritage, and is co-created and performed by artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to create fantasy and fantasy. , tells a classical mythological epic with a strong oriental color, depicts an artistic picture using dance as the pen and culture as the ink, and presents a stage masterpiece of cross-strait cultural exchanges and integration.
Shadow puppet show "One Belt and One Road" boutique drama "The Golden Age of Tibet"
Time: May 18-19
Location: Puppet Art Theater
"The Golden Age of Tibet" tells the story of Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty who was ordered to go to Tubo to pay tribute to Zang in 641 AD. The marriage of Pusongtsen Gampo opened up and witnessed the thousand-year history of exchanges, exchanges and integration between the civilization of the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty and the civilization of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Princess Wencheng's journey to get married was rugged and dangerous. She passed through deserts and snow-capped mountains and endured hardships, determined not to change, broke the sun and moon mirror to cut off her homesickness, and took root in Tubo to spread the civilization of the Central Plains. Princess Wencheng used her kindness, wisdom and courage to write a moving epic of Silk Road development and national unity on the long Tang-Tibet ancient road and the majestic Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Her spirit is still shining today more than 1,300 years later.
—— Shenzhen——
The 4th Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu Shenzhen Futian Peking Opera Masters Art Week-Peking Opera Concert
Time: May 15th
Location: Starry Sky Theater, Drama Theme Hall, Futian Cultural and Sports Center The
concert program includes the prologue: Beijing-Hu Concerto "Welcoming the Spring"; Part 1: Inheriting the fragments of "Selling Water", "Jiujiang Estuary", "Qipanshan", "Wujiapo", "Chen Sanliang Climbing the Hall", and "The Female General of the Yang Family" Fragment; next article: Opera-rhyme "Pearl Curtain Village", "The Legend of White Snake", "The Empty City Strategy", "The No. 1 Matchmaker", "Cherry Picking Club", "Assassination of King Liao", "Taizhen Gaiden", "Wild Boar Forest" and "Taizhen Gaiden".
The 4th Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu Shenzhen Futian Peking Opera Masters Art Week - Excerpts "Tears on Barren Mountains", "Extermination of Three Pests", "Grand Ascension to the Palace"
Time: May 9-12
Location: Shenzhen Esplanade - Opera Hall
"Tears on Barren Mountains": At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the foolish emperor Chongzhen continued to impose excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, deepening the people's suffering. Farmer Gao Liangmin failed to pay taxes, and both his father and son were imprisoned. Only then did his daughter-in-law Zhang Huizhu redeem Gao and his son by weaving silk day and night. "Abolition of Three Evils": It tells the story of Zhou Chu, whose parents died early and had no one to teach him, so he pretended to be drunk and committed many atrocities. The villagers are deeply worried about it and call it the three pests together with Nanshan tiger and Changqiao Xuejiao. Wang Jun, the new governor of Yixing, couldn't bear Zhou Chu's depravity, so he disguised himself to look for him. During the encounter, he used dragons and tigers as metaphors to count his crimes. When Zhou Chu heard this, he was shocked and ashamed, so he shot the tiger to kill the dragon and mended his ways. "Grand Ascension": With the help of Princess Daizhan, Xue Pinggui conquered Chang'an, captured Wang Yun and Wei Hu, and proclaimed himself emperor. He was entrusted with Baochuan, fought on behalf of Su Long, killed Wei Hu, and wanted to kill Wang Yun. After Wang Baochuan persuaded him, he pardoned him; he also invited the Queen Mother to celebrate the reunion.
024 The 4th Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu Shenzhen Futian Peking Opera Masters Art Week - "Dragon and Phoenix Present"
Time: May 17th
Location: Shenzhen Grand Theater
Sun Quan set up a beauty trap with Zhou Yu because Liu Bei occupied Jingzhou and refused to return, pretending to His younger sister Shangxiang promised to marry Liu Bei, and tricked her into crossing the river to keep her hostage in exchange for Jingzhou. Zhuge Liang discovered this, and Liu used Zhou Yu's father-in-law Qiao Xuan to tell him about Sun Quan's mother, Wu. The Wu family had a blind date at Ganlu Temple, and the fake came true. After Liu Bei married Soochow, Zhou Yu used his words and gestures to restrain her in the palace. Liu Bei did not want to return to Jingzhou, but Zhao Yun used the tips Zhuge Liang had given him to pretend that Cao Cao was attacking Jingzhou. Liu Bei asked Sun Shangxiang to go with him; Sun Yingyun went with him. , resigned from his mother and fled with Liu. Zhou Yu scolded his generals to pursue him, but Mrs. Sun repelled them. Zhou Yu followed up with his troops. Zhuge Liang had prepared ships to rescue Liu Bei from danger, and sent Zhang Fei to ambush at the mouth of Luhua Dang. Zhou Yu pursued and was defeated by Zhang Fei.
"Cantonese · show theater" - the costumed Cantonese opera "The Romance"
Time: May 17th
Location: Phoenix Theater
Pingnan King Chu Batian returned victorious, and the king drove ten miles to greet him outside the Changting Pavilion. The princess encounters a thief on an outing. Fortunately, Zhang Jianqiu, a brave man, fights off the thief and rescues the princess. The two fall in love at first sight.
Jianqiu sneaks into the palace to meet the princess at night, and they fall in love with each other. At this moment, the Tibetan king Chu Batian led his troops into the palace to search and kidnap the princess. Jianqiu had no choice but to surrender and was imprisoned. Chu Batian was infatuated with the princess and worshiped the pomegranate skirt for a long time. He pretended to be a public servant to Jianqiu for personal gain and set up a private court in an attempt to force a marriage to eliminate future troubles. Brother Jiafu from the mountains disguised himself as a woman and sneaked into the prison, working together inside and outside to rescue Jianqiu.
The king was fatuous and incompetent. Because Chu Batian held military power, he was forced to agree to betroth the princess to Batian. When the princess was anxious, Jianqiu disguised herself as a woman and sneaked into the palace in time to tell her a plan to escape the danger. During the visit, Jiafu pretends to be a princess and Jianqiu leads the mountain brothers to defeat Chu Tian. On this festive day when the flowers are full and the moon is full, the princess and Jianqiu's lover finally get married.
Yanghua’s 2024 Chinese version of the stage play "Les Misérables"
Time: May 18-19
Location: Shenzhen Poly Theater
"Les Misérables" is a novel published by the French writer Victor Hugo in 1862 The novel is the most successful masterpiece among Hugo's realist novels and one of the most famous novels in the 19th century. The novel covers the Napoleonic War and the following ten years. It is extremely challenging to adapt such a large-scale masterpiece into a drama. The novel has so far been translated into 17 languages, with countless film remakes, and a musical with this title has been performed in 35 countries and 21 languages, with more than 50 million viewers to date. In China, the work "Les Misérables" has influenced many outstanding figures in the political, business, literary and other fields, and has far-reaching influence. It is precisely based on this important significance that when Yanghua Drama was creating art to welcome the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France in 2024, it set its sights on "Les Misérables", a world classic, hoping to use its timeless The universal value of the play is conveyed to today’s theater audiences through reinterpretation by contemporary artists.
- Foshan -
Musical "South Wall Project"
Time: May 17-18
Location: Qionghua Grand Theater - Grand Theater
"South Wall Project" tells the story of a father who asks his son to inherit the mantle of folk art. A story about a son who insists on his musical dream. Mixing the parent-child relationship with the cultural propositions of the times, behind the dispute between father and son is the conflict between tradition and pioneering, and also the different persistence between generations. A reflection and debate about "tradition" and "inheritance" took place on the stage. When the familiar melody sounded in our hearts, perhaps it has become a memory that we cannot let go...
The Cantonese version of the musical "The Young Lion"
Time : May 18-19
Venue: Foshan Grand Theater - Grand Theater
A young lion emerges, with fighting spirit as high as the sky! The musical "The Lion Boy" tells the story of an ordinary young man who went through ups and downs to learn skills from a teacher, dance the lion head, and jump high pole in pursuit of his dream.The whole play slowly unfolds under the fusion of music, dance and lion dance. The storyline is twists and turns, soul-stirring, the lines are full of laughter and inspiring, and the 20 original songs integrate diverse music styles, including traditional drum music, pop songs, rock, Lyrical tunes, local operas, folk songs, flamenco and other musical elements all add to the excitement of the lion and ignite the flames of young people's dreams. In the play, music is used to promote the development of the plot and stir up emotions. At the same time, a large number of Cantonese idioms are used in the lyrics and lines to show the strong Lingnan style. It is composed of keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, violin, cello, flute and other musical instruments. The live band played highly infectious music, bringing both auditory and visual enjoyment to the audience.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen, intern Lin Xiaotong
