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Beijing is deeply cultivating the construction of "City of Performing Arts"
Our reporter Li Li
In the splendor of spring, the audience in Beijing was dazzled by the colorful masterpieces of stage art, enjoying the feast of art.
Last night, the first "Looking at Beijing" performance season came to a successful conclusion. In more than 4 months, a total of 139 performances of 35 films were performed offline, attracting more than 120,000 audiences into the theater.
Troupes from other local art troupes also took advantage of the spring breeze to come to Beijing one after another. The Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe and the Suzhou Kunqu Opera Troupe in Jiangsu Province brought two different versions of the full version of "The Peony Pavilion" one month apart, competing for splendor on the capital stage; Tickets for the historical musical "Awakening Age" were officially opened last week, opera "Azalea", drama "Journey", Hebei Bangzi "Miyun Ten Sisters", musical "Ideal City", Peking Opera "Legend of Qi Baishi", Kunqu Opera "Han Palace" Autumn" and other official announcements of Beijing's planned repertoires have once again confirmed Beijing's creative strength as a national cultural center.
In 2023, polish the cultural business card of "Looking at Beijing with Great Dramas" and focus on building a "City of Performing Arts", which is the most vivid expression of the prosperity and development of Beijing's cultural stage in the new era.
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"A cultural relic thousands of years ago, interprets a wonderful historical dance drama. The magnificent background music and gorgeous stage background seem to make people travel thousands of years ago and feel the elegance of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty." Premiered in Beijing Two years later, the large-scale historical dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" started its "Homecoming" tour in Urumqi on the evening of February 28.
As a shining star of Beijing's literary and artistic power, the play won double awards in two major national awards, the "Five One Project Award" and the "Wenhua Award".
On the stage in March, more new and excellent works will meet the audience.
The Beijing Peking Opera Theater launched "Ke Shao Ji Qiu Zhuo Fanghua"--excavating and sorting out re-rehearsal repertoire performances, focusing on displaying 20 traditional repertoires that are on the verge of being lost and valuable for excavation.
The Kunqu opera "Man in the Grass and Trees" and the Peking opera "The Miser" will debut on the stage, the National Peking Opera Company's "Welcome to the New Year" classic repertoire performances, and the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater's 2023 Spring Huazhang Performance Season and other exciting activities complement each other, and the spring of traditional operas is coming. .
The opera "Mountain and Sea Love", Peking opera "Stone Commentary on Plum Blossoms", musical "No. 42 Sanlitun" and other well-known works once again showed their style, and the original small theater drama "Return to Come" showed the joint efforts of artists from Beijing and Shanghai.
In recent years, Beijing literary and art workers have insisted on putting the people at the center, guided by the core values of socialism, and driven by innovation, focusing on key creative links such as topic selection, rehearsal, and performance. Beijing's performing arts service platform, original script creation and topic selection incubation mechanism and other policies are "combined punches", and the whole chain supports the production of high-quality art.
Right now, the incubation project of original script creation and topic selection in the capital city of the new era is in full swing. The "Early Spring Incubation Month" will hold a series of 10 incubation activities from February 23 to March 15.
The participating works are rich in themes and types, covering various themes such as reality, revolution, history, and Beijing, and involving various art forms such as drama, children's drama, and opera.
Watching a big show in Beijing
Increase the supply of high-quality culture
Increasing the supply of high-quality culture and improving the cultural well-being of the people is the meaning of Beijing's goal of building a "capital of performing arts".
As a national cultural center and an international communication center, Beijing brings together excellent stage art works at home and abroad to provide citizens with rich spiritual food and meet their cultural expectations for a better life. Quality culture brand.
Co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Beijing Municipal People's Government, the show of excellent stage art plays in the new era lasted from the end of December last year to April this year, and a total of about 60 plays were invited to win the "Five One Project Award" and "Wenhua Award". " and the outstanding works selected into the creative support projects of realistic themes and historical themes in the new era, performed about 120 performances in major theaters in Beijing, showing the new look of the vast number of literary and art workers across the country who are full of vigor and forge ahead.
Beijing Renyi's new year's drama "Under the Red Flag" premiered at the Capital Theater during the Spring Festival, presenting a "New Beijing Flavor" drama with innovative expressions to the audience, which also ushered in a good start for the Beijing performance market.
Compared with the same period in 2019, the number of performances during the Spring Festival in the city increased by 85.9%.
In February, 151 key performance venues in the city held 2,865 commercial performances, serving nearly 600,000 audiences, and the box office revenue was more than 95 million yuan. The number of performances, audiences, and box office increased by 6.1%, 17.0%, and 25.9% month-on-month respectively. The performing arts market showed a steady recovery situation.
Many blockbuster dance dramas such as "Only This Green", "A Dream of Red Mansions" and "Zhaojun" were staged in turn, and major theaters in Beijing reproduced the scenes of queuing up for admission and signing for the premiere.
Next, the 7th Tianqiao·Chinese Spring Art Festival in 2023 will be held from March 16 to June 25, with the theme of "Chasing the Wind and the Moon, Seeing Spring Mountain", bringing 27 plays and nearly 70 performances. Launched a number of premiere works and word-of-mouth masterpieces.
On March 26, the main venue of the Cadillac Center will usher in the first large-scale concert of the year, which will surely bring chain effects across the country.
Expand new performing arts space
Construct a new scene of cultural consumption
In recent years, based on the characteristics of urban space, Beijing has successively carried out the construction of characteristic performing arts communities, and promoted the exploration of new performing arts spaces rich in urban cultural characteristics.
In January this year, the new immersive performing arts space "Happy Twist Huahua World" officially debuted in Wangjing, with a total area of nearly 4,000 square meters. The experience center and other professional theater performances and creative and row incubation spaces are combined to bring consumers a one-stop entertainment experience.
On March 3, Tianning No. 1 Oriental Art Space officially opened in Tianning No. 1 Cultural Technology Innovation Park. This is a comprehensive new performing arts space jointly created by China Oriental Performing Arts Group and China Huadian. It is composed of a theater with more than 300 seats, Guanning Pavilion and picturesque two outdoor open spaces. In the future, it will expand and cultivate new scenes of cultural tourism consumption , to serve Beijing's "Performing Arts Capital" and the construction of the capital's national cultural center.
Today, performing arts activities are combined with tourism, commerce, exhibitions, etc., making it convenient for citizens to watch performances in shopping malls, listen to talk shows in bookstores, and play "script killing" in small theaters...a group of coffee shops, bookstores, shopping malls, business The continuous emergence of new performing arts spaces represented by cultural and creative parks, etc. not only bring new consumption that integrates culture, commerce, and tourism, but also greatly enhance the sense of happiness, gain, and satisfaction of ordinary people.
Connect the heart with drama, set up the stage with literature, and shape the soul with art. From the "distributing center" of excellent works to the "incubator" of high-quality goods, Beijing, as the capital, will tell Chinese stories well with heart and soul, spread Chinese voices, and strive to portray "the capital of performing arts" "Vivid sample.
"Beijing Daily" March 13, 2023, Page 12