"Hanging High with Red Lanterns" is based on Su Tong's novel "Concubines and Wives", which has been famous in China for several years. It tells a familiar story: a schoolgirl in the Republic of China period lives alone and without any support in the world, and she finally falls in love with a young man by chance. But she was chosen by a landlord and forced to become his concubine. Although she was well-dressed and well-fed, she lost her freedom, had no love, and had to cope with the struggles between her wives and concubines, and finally went mad with grief. She, as well as all those women who live in the patio, soak in vinegar, and take their husbands and sons as their world, are all poor people who are killed by feudal rites. Because this play is rooted in Chinese history and cultural environment, it also has a deeper understanding and more feelings.
Delicate and tight cheongsam, extremely gorgeous colors, stirring melody, full of characteristics of the set, novelty and compact choreography, all of which makes the "Red Lanterns Hanging Tall" in the shortest possible time by the world acceptance and love of all walks of life, in the world of ballet has caused an unprecedented vibration of the media in all countries in Europe, the National Ballet of China has also been awarded the Dance Oscars, the British "National Dance Awards", and the "National Dance Awards", the most important dance competition in the world. Britain's "National Dance Awards" nomination for the best foreign dance company.
Since its world premiere in Beijing on May 2, 2001, the National Ballet of China has performed nearly 300 shows with the show in more than 10 cities in China and in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, as well as in Singapore, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Mexico, Russia and other countries.
French-Chinese composer Chen Qigang said his music for this dance drama has nothing to do with Zhao Jiping's movie music, but it will also surely reflect the distinctive Chinese style and strong ethnic flavor. The whole ballet can be said to be a balanced unity of western ballet and oriental opera cross-confronting and deconstructing combinations. 20% of the music is taken from China's traditional and folk music, and 80% belongs to innovation, both of which are fresh and recognizable folk characteristics. In the former, he pays more attention to preserving the original purity of the music, while in the latter, he embodies the new feeling after independent thinking. Chen Qigang particularly emphasized that in this ballet music used a number of different configurations of percussion, the weight is very heavy, in order to achieve the choreographer repeatedly emphasized the shock effect.
Chen Qigang repeatedly explained that music is the soul of the dance drama, and the core of what he pursues and creates is a variety of timbres. In France for 15 years, colorful things in Chen Qigang's mind has been y rooted, to make this ballet music reflects the Chinese characteristics, he realized that there is no ready-made facsimile "chromatography", which makes him in the process of creation seems to be very tired. After the completion of the music recording, Chen Qigang is most pleased with the passage is, the second act of the hero and heroine leave the table to go to a period of secret love, mysterious, lingering, uneasy ...... in the kind of tone he carefully modulated; the beginning of the third act of the music, the timbre of the very peculiar, very effective; there is also a section of the "Mahjong Dance "and a" Mahjong Dance "requires the musicians to play 45 Chinese abacus, and in the general score and score marked four kinds of performance, rhythm and timbre changes not only play the role of the" elephant sound ", but also play a display of character, inner activities, interrelated functions.
Prologue
In the 1920s. In a deep mansion, a young girl is forced into a sedan chair, she is the master's newly married third wife. Before getting into the sedan chair, she remembers her childhood sweetheart - a young boy in the theater troupe.
Act I
In the festive atmosphere of welcoming the bride, the First Mistress and the Second Mistress accept the newcomer with mixed feelings.
On the night of the wedding, the new Third Mistress fights desperately, but finally fails to escape her tragic fate.
Act II
The master leads the wives to spend their time singing and playing mahjong.
The new Third Mistress takes advantage of the brief opportunity to meet her former lover, and the two young men's romance is discovered by the ill-intentioned Second Mistress.
Act III
The young people continue to secretly fall in love with each other, and the Second Mistress informs on them. His Lordship catches the lovers red-handed for their daring transgression.
The Second Mistress takes the opportunity to regain her lost favor, but the Master, in a defeated mood, rewards her with a heavy slap.
The lost Second Mistress tears the red lanterns all over the courtyard to pieces.
Epilogue
The young lovers and the Second Mistress are brought to the execution site at the same time, and in the face of death, they release their old grudges and embrace each other with forgiveness and love
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