China News Service, Beijing, July 5th (Reporter Ying Ni) A love that spans the ages of people and cranes, a dangerous conspiracy, a tribute to life that transcends race, and a story about love, loyalty, intrigue, and bravery. Legendary story... The original fantasy musical "Love of Cranes" hopes to use the elements of Khitan culture to bring to the audience a legendary picture scroll of symbiosis and natural harmony.
The play is an original work dedicated to excavating the rich ecological treasures of the Chinese nation, condensing Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength. It is based on the important "Baobo" culture in the history of Khitan, and takes the national treasure cultural relic "Octagonal Bronze Mirror" as the play. The clue, through a romantic interpretation full of fantasy, tells a love-hate entanglement between the two races of humans and cranes, showing the splendid and unique "bowl" culture in Chinese civilization.
"Bao" is a transliteration of the Khitan language, which means the camp of the Liao Emperor.
Emperor Liao maintained the habit that his ancestors had cultivated in the nomadic life, living in an impermanent place and moving around at four seasons.
Therefore, the emperors have their own walks at the four seasons, which is called "the bowl".
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The script and music composition took three years.
The script combines reality and mythology, and integrates mythological stories with the history and culture of ancient China's Daliao and Liaoning, full of romanticism and fantasy.
Music, as the soul of the play, is a romantic and poetic narrator. Through the flexible use of various musical styles, the vivid and distinctive characters in the play are successfully shaped.
"Love of Cranes" follows the structural rules of musical drama, displays the beauty of "elegant, delicate and gorgeous" music with a variety of musical styles, and focuses on the display of composition skills and singing skills, making it complex in melody, broad in music, and free and rich in rhythm changes. At the same time, it also adopts the multi-dimensional music texture of "popular, rough, vigorous and simple", reflecting the richness of the drama.
In terms of visual style, the play integrates the design styles of traditional Chinese freehand aesthetics, neutral stage, and freehand scenery into the base of realism, reflecting the ingeniousness of being inclusive and inclusive, and using condensed and unique visual symbols to create fantasy. scene.
Li Gang, the producer and chief director of the play, said, "We selected an important cultural relic representing Khitan culture, the octagonal bronze mirror, as the visual fulcrum of the stage beauty, forming the visual center image of the Khitan palace in the play; we extracted the elements of crane feathers to create the atmosphere. , Create a poetic time and space, and make it an important element of the grand scene of the Wetland; in the treatment of the reindeer horns and the presentation of the sacrificial scenes, the romantic aesthetic idea is used to depict the wonderful picture scroll with the unique color of the northern nomads, creating a A unique view of the prairie wilderness.”
It is reported that the musical "Love of Cranes" will perform its first round at the Taihu Theater of the National Centre for the Performing Arts from July 8 to 10.
Later, it will start performing in Changchun, Baicheng, Daan and other places in Jilin, as well as a national tour.
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