China News Service, Beijing, October 31st (Xu Jing) The 6th Chinese Opera Culture Week (referred to as "Opera Week") will be held at the Beijing Garden Expo Park from November 4th to November 10th.

This year's Opera Week will take "Harmony and Common Beauty" as the annual theme, and comprehensively upgrade in terms of form, content, and time and space expansion. About 400 events of various types will be held at the main venue of the event, in the special area outside the park and online.

　　On October 31, the Organizing Committee of the 6th Chinese Opera Culture Week held a press conference, which was introduced by the person in charge at the press conference.

Experience Opera Culture in Various Forms

　　The Chinese Opera Culture Week is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Beijing Municipal Government. The national-level opera cultural activities undertaken by the district party committee and district government have been successfully held for five sessions so far.

　　The 6th Chinese Opera Culture Week will take "Harmony and Common Beauty" as the annual theme, and will be comprehensively upgraded in terms of form, content, and time and space expansion.

During the Xiqu Week, about 400 events of various kinds will be held at the main venue of the event, in the special area outside the park and online.

The content of the activities mainly includes academic forums, opera parks, opera markets, and a series of normalized activities after the main event.

　　According to reports, this year's Xiqu Week has designed a variety of content from the perspectives of academics, performances, interaction, and sharing. There are not only academic forums with a high degree of professionalism, but also a Xiqu Paradise that gathers famous actors and actresses.

In addition to watching operas, tourists can also experience opera culture in depth through exhibitions, interactive games, cultural creations, life markets and other forms.

Professional forum pays attention to the inheritance of opera

　　During the main event of the 6th Chinese Opera Culture Week, one main forum and three sub-forums were organized.

At that time, well-known experts and scholars in the field of opera, heads of troupes, directors, screenwriters, actors and other heavyweight guests will gather at the Garden Expo to focus on "the modernity, inheritance and development of opera art in the new era" and "international dissemination and exchange of opera art." "The development of the opera performance market and audience training", "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei youth opera talent development" and "cross-border application of opera elements" and other topics, carried out in-depth exchanges and discussions.

　　During the opera week, a cross-border fashion show will also be held to promote the fashionable and youthful dissemination of national traditional culture, inject more fashion vitality into the opera week, and at the same time carry out the collection and selection of young academic papers for the whole country.

The picture shows the scene of the previous opera week.

Photo courtesy of the Organizing Committee of the Chinese Opera Culture Week

Participate in opera events online and offline

　　"The opera in the garden, the garden in the opera".

According to reports, in the 6th Chinese Opera Culture Week, the experience of tourists will continue to be upgraded. The performance will go out of the garden, and the audience can also experience this grand opera event in the theater and on the Internet.

　　In Beijing in early November, the rich autumn colors in the Garden Expo Park complemented the wonderful performances on the stage.

The "Opera in the Garden" section will bring together famous troupes and famous opera masters to bring high-level professional performances.

The performances at the opening ceremony of this opera week were dazzling, with bright themes and prominent highlights. There were not only Peking Opera martial arts dramas like "Dragon Soaring and Tiger Leaping", but also the elegant Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion", and "Mu Guiying in Command", which was performed by Beijing Bang.

Famous opera actors who have won the Drama Plum Blossom Award and Wenhua Performance Award, outstanding young actors, and students from the China Academy of Opera will join forces to bring an audio-visual feast to fans and friends.

　　It is worth mentioning that the 6th Chinese Opera Culture Week also set up a stage in the Chinese Garden Museum, where a miniature version of the immersive "The Jade Hairpin" will be staged in Changyuan, Suzhou; Yuyin Shanfang will be performed by young students from the Chinese Academy of Opera to perform famous traditions. Dramatic arias highlight the vitality of opera culture in the new era.

　　"Opera in the Theater" will enter professional theaters in Beijing to bring high-quality professional performances to the audience.

In Chang'an Grand Theater, Jixiang Theater, Zhengyi Temple Ancient Theater and other theaters, Peking Opera "Red Mane Horse", Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion", and cross-border opera concerts were staged respectively.

Among them, the full version of "Red Mane Horse" has not been performed on the stage for many years. This opera week has specially arranged two days and four performances with a 13% discount for a total of 10 hours of full-book performances.

　　On the online side, the "Opera on the Internet" section can also be addicting to drama.

This year, a professional video live broadcast team has been set up to broadcast the opening and closing ceremonies and outstanding representative plays on CCTV, Douyin, Station B, and the Oriental Grand Theater. It has become a cultural event shared by the whole people.

Rich activities to showcase the beauty of opera

　　Showcasing the profound cultural accumulation of opera in more forms and richer content has always been the insistence of China Opera Culture Week.

The 6th Chinese Opera Culture Week has prepared interactive experiences, national style markets, exhibitions and other activities for tourists of different hobbies and ages, creating a popular "Opera Carnival" and showing the new brilliance of traditional culture.

　　During the Opera Week, the Beijing Garden of the Garden Expo Park has arranged the Beijing Opera Cultural Development Achievement Exhibition, the special vinyl record exhibition and the Opera audio-visual exhibition, so that fans can understand the history of Beijing's inheritance and development of national culture and opera art, and have a look at many "treasure exhibits" .

In the China Garden Museum, an art exhibition of Peking Opera Danjiao is also arranged to guide tourists to know and understand the style of Peking Opera.

　　The Garden Expo Garden, covered in gold with ginkgo biloba, meets the national style neon clothes. Hanfu experts will lead tourists through the ancient and modern times, forming a pleasing moving scenery line. Tourists change into people in seconds and experience the fun of "immersive" garden tours.

According to reports, this opera week once again prepared open outdoor interactive challenges, task check-in and other opera-themed game activities for visitors to the park.

In the cultural and creative market and the life market, tourists can deeply experience the beauty of traditional opera through Hanfu shooting and experience intangible cultural heritage projects, and they can also feast on their mouths.

Continue to carry out normal opera performances

　　Chinese Opera Culture Week is not only a professional group, but also builds a bigger stage for fans and fans.

According to reports, this year's Opera Week strives to build a platform for the majority of opera lovers to display, communicate and participate in by expanding the time and space of the Chinese Opera Fancier Contest and continuing to promote the normal activities of traditional opera.

　　In terms of the drama settings of the Opera Fancier Contest, including Peking Opera, Pingju, Hebei Bangzi, and Baoding old tunes, the space will be expanded to Tangshan, Baoding and other areas outside Beijing. In addition, activities such as ring competitions and fancier performances will be organized.

　　At the same time, with the purpose of benefiting the people through culture, this opera week will continue to carry out normal opera performances, and go deep into community villages to carry out activities themed on "Showing a Bright Life and Sharing a Well-off Life", "Small Stage" and "Playing" parent-child theaters to further expand the scope of time and space , extend the activity cycle, and create an unfinished opera week.

　　In order to ensure the smooth holding of this opera week, the organizing committee has formulated an epidemic prevention and control plan in accordance with the epidemic prevention and control situation at home and abroad, in accordance with the overall deployment of Beijing's epidemic prevention and control and the principles of "safety first, scientific policy, precise prevention and control, and meticulousness". A control and security plan has been put in place, so that people can feel at ease in the park and enjoy the beauty of opera.

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