EAST MEETS WEST
SICHUAN OPERA SYMPHONY CONCERT
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This is a musical journey that breaks the rules
This is a perfect crossover between Eastern culture and Western culture
This is an audiovisual feast of the integration of world music
The crossover of "Sichuan Opera" and "symphony" is a bold innovation in the crossover of traditional Chinese art and Western culture. It skillfully integrates folk music, Sichuan opera performance, opera costumes and world-renowned symphonies, containing elements such as "Sichuan opera singing" and "elegant Western orchestral music", and integrates them with vitality in a unique artistic way. Bring the audience a new audio-visual experience, let the eyes shine, refreshing.
Overseas tour staffing
There are 18-20 Chinese actors and actresses
There are 2 opera actors, 9 Sichuan opera percussion musicians, 1 conductor, 2 Fu Hua Dao, 1 stage director, and 3-5 others
48-50 foreign cast members
The orchestra has 25 members, the choir 20 members, the rehearsal conductor 1 member and 2-4 others
CROSS-BORDER INTEGRATION
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Gongs and drums are an important part of Sichuan opera. There are more than 20 kinds of instruments at usual, and they could be simplified into small drum, big drum, big gong, big cymbal, small gong (and hinge), called "5 Fang" and “6 Fang” plus string & Suona, directed by small drums. Sichuan Opera contains various Qupai (singing tones) of percussion music, and would be express cheerful, solemn, exciting or other different emotions by playing gongs and drums according to different stories and performances.
Bang Qiang is a great feature of Sichuan Opera. It’s a vocal accompaniment of the band's assistant singing during the performance with functions such as setting the tone, replacing the speaker in the play, reflecting the inner monologue, expressing the inner feelings of the characters, describing the environment, and evaluating the events and characters as a third party.
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Sichuan Opera (also konwn as Chuanju), one of the traditional Chinese operas, is popular in eastern and central Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou & Yunnan, and hailed as China’s national intangible cultural heritage. Sichuan Opera is an unusually inclusive opera, covering five kinds of Chinese operatic tune, i.e. Kun, Gao, Hu, Tan & Deng, in which Gao is the most unique one. Its characteristic is the close combination of vocal accompaniment, gongs & drums, and singing. In fact, Gao is the vocal accompaniment of the band's assistant singing during the performance, with a special style of "one-singer-all-together".
MUSIC
LIST
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1, Sichuan Opera Symphony blowing "Drunk Flower Shade" /2, Sichuan Opera Kunqu Opera "Liangzhou Prelude", "Red Plum Story" Little Sheng excerpt /3, Sichuan Opera Symphony blowing "Water Dragon Yin" /4, Sichuan Opera accent "Jiangtou GUI", "Sifan" Little Dan excerpt /5, Sichuan Opera Symphony blowing "Jin Tang Moon" /6, Sichuan Opera accent "A flower", "Butterfly Lovers" excerpt, chorus /7, Sichuan Opera symphony "Fate Symphony "/8 Sichuan Opera Huqin" Xipi "" Hall of Eternal Life" excerpts, chorus /9, Sichuan Opera playing "Sweet PI" "Kuai Hong" Xiao Dan excerpts /10, Sichuan Opera Light Drama "Little Cattle" Xiao Sheng Excerpts /11, Sichuan Opera song "Chengdu" Foreign language male song & Sichuan Opera female voice /12, Sichuan Opera Symphony and percussion music "Toward the Son of Heaven · Face Change"
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The headgear of Sichuan opera is very distinctive, including handsome helmet, phoenix crown, flower head, suffering, ancient costume, peach towel, corner towel, prince towel, bachelor towel, etc. These headgear, hat, helmet head is also a symbol of character identity and role
Sichuan Opera Artist
Wang Yu Mei--王玉梅
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Chinese national first-level actor,Deputy chief of Sichuan Opera Institute, An artist who enjoys the special allowance granted by the State Council, the winner of the 25th China Drama Plum Blossom Award, Member of China Dramatists Association, Director of Sichuan Dramatists Association, Representative of Sichuan Communist Youth League, Top ten actors in Sichuan Province, Member of Sichuan Expert Review Committee, Representative successors of Sichuan Opera in Chengdu intangible cultural heritage project.
She was the leading actor of Sichuan Opera “Durando, Princess of China”, and won the Excellent Performance Award of the Fourth China Drama Festival, the Golden Award of the Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Festival and the Five First Engineering Award of Sichuan Province. In 1998, a dialogue performance between the opera and the Italian opera Turandot directed by Zhang Yimou in Beijing caused a sensation and was personally received by the then Prime Minister of China.
