"Have you got the tickets?" Recently, the national dance drama "A Dream of Red Mansions", which weaves a classical and beautiful dream, is being staged at the Jiangsu Grand Theater. At the same time, Jiangsu Grand Theater also celebrated the seventh anniversary of its opening performance. In the past seven years, countless wonderful moments have been staged here, from top domestic and foreign art groups to local cultural forces.
html More than 390,000 artists have taken the stage here
It is reported that in the past seven years, Jiangsu Grand Theater has invited more than 90,000 artists from five continents and 60 countries (regions) around the world to take the stage, and introduced more than 4,000 artists to host various performances. field. More than 4.2 million people entered the Jiangsu Grand Theater to appreciate the splendor and warmth of the world.
In addition to the increasing number of performances, the theater has become more sophisticated in its performance planning: the "spring, summer and autumn" performance seasons, the "Jiangnan Voices" Music Festival and the Mariinsky Theater Art Festival have formed a "three seasons and two festivals" throughout the year. Performance format; the "Masters and Famous Ensemble" series, the International Piano Series, and the International Chamber Music Season define the music scene with international standards; the "World Dance Theater" unit is dedicated to gathering the world's "dance" forests, with top dance teams arriving in droves... Since 2024, The theater has newly opened the "Jiangsu Grand Theater·China Opera and Dance Theater Performance Season" and "The First Jiangsu Grand Theater Drama Festival" to meet the needs of art lovers of all categories.
Mariinsky Theater Ballet, Elfman Ballet, Béjart Ballet in Lausanne, Switzerland, National Center for the Performing Arts, China Opera and Dance Theatre, National Ballet of China, Central Opera House, China Oriental Performing Arts Group, National Peking Opera Company, National Theater , Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe, Shanghai Ballet, Shanghai Dramatic Art Center, Drama Nine and other famous art groups have presented wonderful performances. Gergiev, van Zweden, Mo Yan, Pu Cunxin, Lin Huaimin, Huang Mengla, Yang Xuefei, Wang Yabin and other Chinese and foreign artists met with the public here.
12 original masterpieces have received favorable reviews
The modern Peking opera "Tsing Yi", the opera "Rabe's Diary", the national dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions", the drama "The Red Sorghum Family"... The "Jiangsu Grand Theater Original" brand has gradually formed a creative system in recent years and has become mature. , recognized by the audience and the market. In seven years, twelve literary masterpieces have been released to the audience.
Among them, the original national dance drama "A Dream of Red Mansions" won the 13th Chinese Dance "Lotus Award" Dance Drama Award after receiving funding from the National Arts Fund's 2023 Communication and Exchange Promotion Project, and was selected for the 2023 National Performance Market Society of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Top ten quality performance projects that combine efficiency and economic benefits. Since its premiere in September 2021, the play has completed more than 200 performances across the country and traveled to 32 cities. It has been recognized and loved by audiences from all over the world. Tickets for every show are hard to come by, and additional performances are sold out as soon as they are released. It has become a contemporary Hot item. It is worth mentioning that in September this year, the national dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" will go overseas for the first time to perform in Singapore to tell Chinese culture and Chinese stories to the outside world.
In 2024, the original drama "Golden Cicada" will be launched. After its premiere in April, it will tour in Hefei, Suzhou, Shanghai and other places; the children's vocal suite "Because of Dad" and the original musical drama "The Voice of Blooming Flowers" were respectively released on It premiered successfully half a year ago, and sang loudly on the Xinjiang stage in July; the original drama "Red Sorghum Family" was re-rehearsed and polished, and met the audience again in July. It has now started a national tour.
At the same time, on the one hand, Jiangsu Grand Theater has strengthened the construction of its own troupes, established the Jiangsu Grand Theater Chamber Music Group, Children's Chorus, Philharmonic Chorus, and established the Jiangsu Grand Theater Dance Troupe; on the other hand, it has also actively explored the co-construction model of venues and troupes. , cooperates with China Opera and Dance Drama Theatre, Jiangsu Provincial Symphony Orchestra, Jiangsu Provincial Traditional Orchestra, Jiangsu Provincial Children's Art Theater, and Nanjing National Orchestra to make the artistic production and performance service capabilities of the theater and the troupe more closely connected.
"Theatre+" releases more attractions
In addition to performing arts, Jiangsu Grand Theater also brings more cultural choices to citizens.Jiangsu City Hall, Art Museum, Water Drop Cinema, Sharing Hall and other diverse spaces create more cultural and leisure scenes through multiple forms such as love art activities, art curation, and film screenings to meet the current public consumption, social, and emotional needs.
For example, more than 600 art education activities such as "Love Art Salon", "Classic Art Lecture", "Dance and Drama Workshop" and "Master Class" were planned and carried out, allowing the audience to talk to the masters and listen to the behind-the-scenes stories. Zhao Ruheng, Wang Jian, Jin Xing , Lou Yixiao, Liu Wenwen and other artists have shared their performing arts experiences with the audience at close range; the museum has planned and hosted more than 140 exhibitions of various types such as "Flying Youth·2024 Chinese Young Printmakers Nomination Exhibition" to showcase the cutting-edge achievements of contemporary cultural construction; "Art Film Viewing" "Movie Season" was screened at Shuidi Cinema, and a number of classic old films such as "The Radio That Never Dies" allowed the audience to recall the feelings of old days and movies.
The "theater+" operation format enriches the audience's audio-visual and social experience, turning young people from passers-by into regulars. According to Liao Yi, general manager of Jiangsu Grand Theater, the theater has always been full of a sense of mission and responsibility, "let more art lovers enter the Grand Theater, understand the Grand Theater, and enjoy the Grand Theater."
Modern Express/Modern+ reporter Li Ming /text
