In November, the Greater Bay Area will welcome a global hit musical, and theater fans will be in for a treat! The German musical "Butterfly Dream" will meet the Chinese audience in the form of a musical version of the concert, and will bring a music scene with the same production

"Butterfly Dream" musical version concert version is jointly produced by the original musical producer, the Austrian Vienna Union Theater vereinigte bühnen wien, and the Danish Lion Entertainment company, with a condensed and refined stage presentation. , bringing original gorgeous looks and exquisite costumes, backed by a specially invited overseas orchestra, nearly 30 actors and outstanding dancers will perform all the golden songs in the play, and will unveil Manderley in China for the first time The mystery of the manor brings the long-awaited audio-visual feast to the Chinese audience.

The musical "Butterfly Dream" is adapted from the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne Du Maurier. The novel combines elements of love and suspense, with a strong Gothic style. It won the National Book Award and the Anthony Award, the highest honor for suspense novels, and decades later, it is recognized as a love classic of the 20th century. In 1940, the original work was put on the screen by the famous director Hitchcock. The film "Butterfly Dream" won 11 Oscar nominations. With this film, Hitchcock won the only "Oscar" for Best Picture in his director career.

This play is another highly successful German musical masterpiece co-created by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Reevy. This golden pair launched the musical "Butterfly Dream" in 2006 after four years of writing scripts and music. This play was performed at the Raymond Theater in Vienna, Austria. It attracted more than 850,000 people to watch the performance in Vienna alone. The theater was almost full, and it was hard to get a ticket. It was well received. Since then, the musical "Butterfly Dream" has been staged in 13 countries around the world, with 10 language versions, and has become vbw's leading role in "Elizabeth" and "Mozart!" 》Another world-renowned musical classic.

As an example of the new type of "dramatic musical" created by Michael Kunze, "Butterfly Dream" is a new interpretation of the classic, combining a touching love story with the dark elements of Hollywood suspense blockbusters. At the same time, the music composed by Sylvester Revie is sonorous and powerful, with a tight rhythm, pushing the story's excitement to a new level.

As the classic song "all that jazz" plays, a tall and sexy jazz girl slowly rises from the stage, and Michelle, who plays Velma, performs a lot of splits and handstands The difficult movements did not affect the steady and powerful singing skills at all, and the core strength was amazing.

"Chicago" has been on Broadway for nearly 50 years since its debut in 1975. It is the longest-running American musical in the history of Broadway and London's West End, and is also the longest-running show currently on Broadway. .It is worth mentioning that as a representative work of Broadway in the United States, "Chicago" shows a unique style and temperament while adhering to Broadway's consistently high standards. The hearty jazz feast leads the audience back to an era full of desires and challenges.

Since its revival in 1997, "Chicago" has been performed more than 35,000 times in 525 cities in 38 countries around the world, and is available in English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, French, Performances in Danish, Japanese and Korean attracted more than 34 million viewers, earned more than 1.7 billion US dollars in box office, and won more than 50 important awards, including 6 Tony Awards, 5 American Drama Desk Awards, and 2 Olivier Awards. and 1 Grammy Award, occupying an important position in world musicals.

In addition to the unique stage design, "Chicago" also vividly demonstrates the charm of jazz. Extensive use of jazz music and dance creates a luxurious and luxurious atmosphere for the whole play. With live orchestral accompaniment, unique stage effects, and jazz and jazz dance shows, this play is known as the "sexiest and most touching musical".

drama "A Dream"

"A Dream" is an original drama that Yu Yue and Chen Peisi collaborated on again after "The Stage". It took three years from the script creation to the stage. Once it was performed, in a short period of time, it gained a lot of praise and sold out all extra seats.

As the second part of the stage trilogy, "Dreams" still takes the fate of the traditional theater troupe as the main line. Through traditional and smooth plot content, conflicts, misunderstandings, metaphors, and jokes are cleverly "stringed together" to show the war-torn era. The inheritance of art, the future of the family and the country, the fate of little people, etc.

As a period drama, the text of the play is highly realistic, and the stage, ancestral hall, inside and outside the troupe, and war scenes have a sense of restoration, with concise construction and flexible transitions. Among them, the Kunqu opera music is cut out piece by piece and is truly tailor-made. "Dream" observes and pays attention to the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture and Kun Opera, integrates the twists and turns of the story with the beauty of Kun Opera, and blends the cruelty of war with the beauty of traditional art, creating a special aesthetic atmosphere.

We can often see Chen Peisi himself in his works. In the play, he plays the troupe leader Tong Xiaozhang who has the obsession to "sing according to the play". Outside the play, Chen Peisi also has the same persistence, "obeying the rules." Rehearse the opera, rehearse the opera according to the pulse of the times, and wait for all the judges to watch the opera." Audiences who have watched "Dreams" exclaimed: "Chen Peisi will never fool the audience!"

"Memories after the Death of Blas Cubas" From the chapter of the same name in the "Disillusionment Trilogy" by the famous Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. This work is known as the "Immortal Trilogy" in the Brazilian literary world and represents the highest peak of the development of Brazilian realist literature. When director Paul Marills of Machado de Assis adapted the original work for the stage, he designed a three-line narrative that is always intertwined and in dialogue with each other. The human commonality of Cubas is cleverly presented to the audience.

Narrative line - that is, the deceased tells his memories; factual line - that is, Blas Cubas's life experience; deconstruction line - that is, the novel author Assis comments on his work and the character of Cubas. Telling about Bras' life, it shows Brazil's unique "relaxed" philosophy of life and death.

In this memory, a single musician controls multiple instruments alone, accurately matching Cubas's emotions. The passionate and jumping music style will quickly take us to Rio de Janeiro. Under the baptism of rock music, we can feel the infinite vitality growing wantonly in the depths of this absurd story.

The play is presented by the Brazilian Warehouse Theater Company. From 1988 to 1992, when it was first founded, the Brazilian Warehouse Theater Company won 56 awards at the National Theater Festival for its consecutive works.As an outstanding representative of Brazilian drama, the Brazilian Warehouse Theater Company has been a frequent visitor to major international drama festivals and drama awards. To date, Warehouse Theater Company has won more than 100 awards in Brazil and is a well-deserved national treasure troupe.

While Brazil's Warehouse Theater Company is known for its visually stunning and impactful productions, it is also more focused on the performing arts, pursuing dynamic expression through body, voice and mind.

Everyone has a different definition of "wandering". It means leaving home, losing loved ones, and a migration. Some people are willing to abandon everything to pursue wandering, test freedom and loneliness, dream of the carnival of life, and look at the lost front. We move and grow with time, invisible but powerful.

"Wandering" is Hu Shenyuan's first feature-length directorial work. In 2017, Hu Shenyuan became the first young artist supported by the Yang Liping Art Fund, and created this personal work, which premiered at the Shanghai International Dance Center. In the same year, he was invited as the Performance piece of Beijing Dance Academy's "Rising Talent Season". In 2018, it was invited again by the Dance Academy to become the first modern and contemporary special exhibition work of the Chinese Dance Creation Forum, and won the outstanding work of the "Going Out" project of the 19th Shanghai International Arts Festival in 2017.

This work takes the body itself as the starting point, develops and creates a unique dance vocabulary based on the basic rhythm of Mongolian dance and combined with the body movement methods of modern dance. The choreographer used a large number of steps and movements to show people's body shapes under various emotions. The vast and deep Mongolian music melody outlines the emotional ups and downs and pictures in people's hearts.

Hu Chenyuan is known as the dancer with the most storytelling body by the Chinese audience. He is committed to the exploration and development of modern dance, looking for the presentation and transformation of body language in body technology training and theater work creation, and is good at exploring Body movements hide story clues. The works focus on the small happenings in life, expressing and deriving new perspectives. While forming a distinct personal artistic style, he also successfully transformed modern dance from "incomprehensible" to a "soothing" art.

Writing: Nandu reporter Li Chunhua

Pictures: Guangzhou Grand Theater young theater stills Photography: Wang Liyingzhou