China News Service, Shanghai, April 1 (Reporter Wang Ji) On the evening of March 31, under the baton of the famous conductor Xu Zhong, Berlioz’s dramatic symphony "Romeo and Juliet" was performed at the Shanghai Symphony Concert Hall. The 39th Shanghai Spring International Music Festival "Sino-French Music Exchange and Performance Season" was unveiled.
On the evening of March 31st, Berlioz's dramatic symphony "Romeo and Juliet" was performed at the Shanghai Symphony Concert Hall. Photo by Cao Jiamiao
Berlioz was the founder of French romantic music, and his dramatic symphony "Romeo and Juliet" is one of his most innovative and legendary masterpieces. This work integrates symphony, cantorship, chorus and drama, showing Berlioz's creative sublimation of romantic music and expressing his artistic proposition of "closely integrating music with literature and drama".
Xu Zhong, who serves as the conductor, said that he will conduct the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and bring the Shanghai Opera House singers Yu Haolei, Wang Xiaoxi, and Yu Yang to bring this work to the "Shanghai Spring" with a lineup of nearly 200 people. stage, hoping to feel Berlioz's love for Shakespeare and his yearning for ideal love in the music with the audience.
In order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, this "Shanghai Spring" specially launched the "Sino-French Music Exchange and Performance Season" to further deepen exchanges and cooperation between China and France in the field of culture and art. During the performance season, there will be both original and classic interpretations of European music, as well as exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and foreign artists performing on the same stage. Seven art performances with different themes, including a concert by the Royal Opera House Orchestra of the Palace of Versailles in France, will be staged successively. (over)