Nandu News Reporter Li Chunhua When symphony meets drama, Shakespeare meets Prokofiev, Wang Yaoqing meets "Romeo and Juliet", how will this great work be presented? On June 15, the Guangzhou Grand Theater will usher in the national premiere of the symphony drama "Romeo and Juliet." Shakespeare's text is paired with Prokofiev's music for the ballet. This is not only a symphony performance, but also a collision of music and drama!
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The symphony drama reproduces Shakespeare 40 year ago's "Love Top"
Shakespeare's world-class be aesthetic work "Romeo and Juliet" , tells the story of a group of young people. The plot is already familiar. From movies to musicals and ballets, Rozhu's story has endured and been staged countless times over the centuries.
The script of the symphony drama "Romeo and Juliet" was specially written by the famous music critic Jiao Yuanpu for one-man drama and symphony orchestra performance. The script is adapted from Shakespeare's work of the same name, presenting Prokofiev's original ballet symphony work in a dramatic context. Wang Yaoqing used his ever-changing voice to interpret various characters in the play, interspersing his lines with Prokofiev's highly telling and graphic music, creating an unprecedented artistic effect in drama and symphony.
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Wang Yaoqing performs 15 roles, swaying "youth hormones"
Wang Yaoqing, a well-known actor who is good at TV, movies and stage, and is good at drama, hosting and recitation, will play the roles of narrator, Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, The 15 characters, including Marcius and Mrs. Capule, use their strong stage performance ability and energy and precise grasp of music to perfectly integrate drama and music into a wonderful symphony drama, recreating the classic love legend.
In Luo Zhu's story, people not only feel sad for the love tragedy of the two young people, but also sigh for the erroneous time, fate and passionate youth. Among these young people aged 16 or 17, there is countless courage, vitality and freedom, and the breath of youth is blowing against their faces. As for Wang Yaoqing, who has long since bid farewell to his adolescence, how to perform "youth hormones" while freely switching between 15 roles is a big challenge!
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The powerful creators of the symphony drama have gathered together to help popularize classical music.
The famous music critic Jiao Yuanpu is responsible for the script adaptation, the domestic all-round conductor Zhang Jiemin is the conductor, and the powerful actor Wang Yaoqing has performed all the roles. There is also the passionate performance of the Macau Orchestra, which combines Russian compositions Prokofiev's ballet symphony work is used as the main axis, using sound instead of silent dance to depict the picture, combining the lines to re-cut the original ballet's plot sequence, and using new logic to arrange the music scenes to form a complete Shakespeare's story. story line. The original intention of
symphony drama is to put music first and promote and popularize classical music. A complete dramatic score requires someone to connect the story together and make the music more visual, so there is one person working with the symphony orchestra. All efforts and arrangements are made to allow the audience to have a better sense of the music and then better understand the composer's music.
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