The first China Shanghai International Arts Festival was held from November 1 to December 1, 1999 in Shanghai. The activities included stage art performances, cultural and art exhibitions, mass cultural activities and various art transactions.
The first Shanghai International Arts Festival repertoire
1, the opera "The Lady of the Camellias" - the Royal Opera House, the Shanghai Opera House, etc.
By the famous composer Verdi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas. It was first performed in 1853. It has been performed for more than a hundred years and has become the most popular classical repertoire of Italian opera. This time during the Festival, The Lady of the Camellias is jointly presented by the Royal Opera House, the Shanghai Opera House and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by the famous Italian conductor Paolo Olmi, who successfully conducted the opening opera "Aida" at the Shanghai Grand Theater, the Royal Opera House and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will present the production. Conducted by the renowned Italian conductor Paolo Olmi, the production is directed by the renowned director of the Royal Opera House, Quirk Young.
2. Musical "Future Combination"--Sichuan People's Art Theater
China's first youth school musical "Future Combination", which has attracted much attention from the media, came to Shanghai as one of the first programs in China. The show is the only one in the festival that reflects the campus life of young students.
"Future Combination" uses singing and dancing to portray a group of energetic young students, telling their stories about facing life, facing family, facing friendship, facing choosing and being chosen, and revealing how to be a human being behind the story. What is the principle of being a human being? Such a profound theme.
The play is another masterpiece of Che Ting following the creation of "Boat Crossing the Three Gorges", which is listed as a key play of Sichuan Province to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the country, and is directed by Xiong Yuanwei, a famous director in Guangzhou. More than 20 melodious songs are written by the famous musician Li Haiying, and the choreographer is Ma Dongfeng, one of the scriptwriters of "Flowers in the Faraway Mountains", which won the Wenhua Prize. Performed by the Sichuan People's Art Theater, this group of young actors is close to the age of the characters in the play, so they act naturally and vividly, close to life.
The youthful school musical "Future Combination" has already received wide acclaim and is sure to be a hit with young students in Shanghai.
3, Yueju Opera "The Story of the Western Wing" - Zhejiang Little Hundred Flowers Yueju Opera Troupe
The Yueju Opera "The Story of the Western Wing", which was adapted from a classical masterpiece, depicts the love story of Zhang Sheng and Yingying, who break through the feudal socialist religion to settle down for a lifetime of love, which has been performed for thousands of years and has never failed. The play has won a series of awards, including the highest academic award in Chinese theater - the Chinese Opera Society Award.
Zhejiang Little Hundred Flowers Yueju Opera Troupe was founded in the early 1980s, on the basis of inheriting the tradition, learning from others' strengths, pioneering and innovating, and forming its own unique style of performance - rich in youthful vitality in artistic innovation, empowering the classical operas with modern stage synthesis of the sense of aesthetics, the troupe has a number of national-level actors, such as Mao Weitao.
4, Tibetan drama "Princess Wencheng"--Tibet Autonomous Region Tibetan Opera Troupe
"Princess Wencheng", with the unique expression of Tibet, reproduces the moving epic of the marriage of Tang and Han people in the middle of the seventh century A.D., when the Tuban Zangbo Songtsen Gampo married Princess Wencheng with his extraordinary wisdom, expressing the good wishes for the unity and harmony of the Tibetan and Han people, and the close friendship of the Chinese. It expresses the good wishes for the unity and harmony between the Tibetan and Chinese people, as well as their intimacy and friendship.
The play combines beautiful and touching storyline, colorful Tibetan costumes and stage art, unique Tibetan opera performances and rich and colorful democratic folk art, so that the ancient traditional art of Tibetan opera realizes a new aesthetic value.
5. Qu Opera "The Smoking Pot"--Beijing Qu Opera Troupe
Beijing Qu Opera is a new type of opera founded by Wei Xikui and other veteran artists in the early period of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and proposed by Mr. Lao She to be named as a new type of opera, and it is the only local opera in Beijing, which is the best at performing modern and Qing Dynasty operas. Qu Opera has a novel style, simple performances and a strong sense of life. Its singing style is mainly based on a single-stringed tune, absorbing northern operas and folk tunes, with an easy-to-understand, elegant melody and a unique flavor combining rap and singing.
The Smoking Pot tells the story of a craftsman who would rather lose his hands than sell his dignity in a rich Beijing accent.
6, Pear Garden Opera "Dong Sheng and Li" - Fujian Province Pear Garden Opera Experimental Troupe
When the rich man Peng was dying, he was afraid that his wife, Li, had changed her love and remarried, and he secretly instructed his neighboring tutor, Dong Sifu, to "supervise" him. Dong Nai long trapped in the field house of the winter baking students also. Because of the burial of his mother borrowed from Peng, had no choice but to agree. Spying on Li's behavior, so become "daily homework". Dong could not help but be moved by Li's talent and color. One night, Dong climbed the wall to spy on Li, see his moonlight in front of the window, a change from the old onyx, Yuanren Xiao Ling, whispering and singing, and move the lights to the west wing, so suspected of adultery. Dong do not forget Peng's instructions, over the wall and into the door. Who would have thought that inside and outside the west wing, only Li's one person. Dong was shocked by the suddenness of the situation, and was about to retreat in a hurry, when he was suddenly met with a burst of laughter and angry scolding by Li's "Thieves have hearts but no guts". Dong was deafened, and realized that Li had been very hard on himself. The two of them then have the secret of stealing time. However, Dong thought and Peng, the night was not harmonious. The next day, Dong went to the grave to Peng "duty". Conscious of the "scholar in the dark room to deceive the heart". Dong was forced by Peng to kneel down and be reprimanded. Peng Soul threw his sword and ordered Dong to kill Li "on behalf of the family law". Dong begged in vain, but he was furious and criticized Peng for being unkind and unwise, and for causing people to disbelieve and be unrighteous. And advised Peng to be willing to die. Peng was deterred by the righteousness of the Confucian scholar, so he hid himself in anger. The two of them are now married, and they have been married for a long time.
7. Lantern Opera "Zhuo Mei and A Luo" - Yunnan Lanxi Lantern Opera Troupe
Based on Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet"
The Yunnan Yuxi Lantern Opera Troupe was founded in 1952, with a cast of actors and actresses of Hui, Yi, Bai, Meng, Wa, Naxi, Lahu and other ethnic minorities, in addition to Han. A classic love tragedy that has been passed down for hundreds of years, staged in an ancient Yi cottage ......
8, Sichuan Opera "Gold" - Chongqing Chuan Theater
Based on Cao Yu's masterpiece "The Wilderness"
Sponsored by the People's Republic of China, the play was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China (PRC). *** and the Ministry of Culture of China, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government to host the '99 First China Shanghai International Arts Festival as one of Shanghai's important cultural and artistic activities to absorb the world's outstanding culture, promote the Chinese arts, promote cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries for the purpose of a world, a group of people gathered national cultural events. The plays selected to participate in the festival are all carefully selected and refined masterpieces of art. This time, by the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Culture selected by the Chongqing Municipal Chuan Theatre to create and adapt the modern Sichuan opera "Gold" (adapted from Cao Yu's masterpiece "The Wilderness"), is a faithful to the original, but after a bold innovation, with a high artistic value of one of the festival's key plays.
The Sichuan Opera "Gold", based on Cao Yu's "The Wilderness", takes the tragic character "Gold"'s love, hatred and hatred as its main theme, and adapts the original "revenge drama" into an "inner drama". The original "revenge drama" is transformed into an "inner drama", which reveals the trials and struggles of women in those days, and reflects the longing for freedom and a better life of the women represented by "Jinzi". The heroine "Jinzi" is played by Shen Tiemei, a famous actress who has won the "Plum Blossom Prize", the highest award in Chinese theater, with her gorgeous singing voice and beautiful costume. Her singing voice is gorgeous and her costume is beautiful, so it can be said that she is "excellent in singing and acting", and she has shown a young woman who is in the prime of her life, kind, lovely and a little bit shrewish in her performance, which is touching to the core. The play also utilizes the characteristic gang accent and "face-changing", "hiding the knife" and other traditional stunts, which adds a lot of color to the whole play, and is another rare masterpiece on the stage of opera in recent years.
9, Huangmei opera "Huizhou woman" - Anhui Province, Anqing Huangmei opera two, three troupes
Anqing Huangmei opera two troupes was founded in 1957, the troupe created the premiere of a large number of Huangmei opera masterpieces, and created a generation of Huangmei opera artists, this year more to Han Zaifen as the representative of a number of new artistic talent, will be the first time to the Huangmei opera, the Huangmei opera is the first time to the Huangmei opera, the Huangmei opera is the first time to the Huangmei opera. Artistic new talent, the Huangmei Opera art to a new peak.
"Huizhou Woman" is a play based on "Xidi Village Prints", showing a closed and ancient village, a kind and beautiful woman, and a sad and touching story.
10. Peking Opera's "Po Lin Lantern"--Shanghai Peking Opera Theater
Anciently, the Three Virgin Mothers and their elder brother, Erlang Shen, have been practicing on Mount Hua for thousands of years. Liu Yanchang, a Confucian doctor, mistakenly enters the fairyland and encounters the Virgin Mother, falling in love with each other. In order to ensure the safety of Yanchang, the Virgin Mary lent her the Pauline Lamp.
Erlangshen rebukes the Three Virgins for their foolishness and reminds them of their mother, who was severely punished by the Heavenly Court when she went off to the mortal world. In order to find out the truth on earth, the Third Virgin went down the mountain with her maid Lingzhi in the name of chasing lamps.
The Madonna and Liu Yanchang meet in a mountain village and enjoy the lanterns of the Lantern Festival. The two hearts were in love, and the Virgin decided to stay on earth for a long time.
The following year, the Third Virgin gave birth to a son, Shenxiang. The god Erlang led the heavenly soldiers to inquire about the crime, destroyed the Po Lin Lantern, captured the Third Virgin Mother back to Mount Hua, and turned Lingzhi into a green stone. Lingzhi left her last words: to save the Three Virgin Mothers, she must re-refine the Po Lin Lamp ......
The Three Virgin Mothers suffered in the purgatory, but still do not forget their loved ones. The old mother, who was imprisoned in the Ice Cave, took the opportunity to persuade her daughter to deliver the Mirror of the Spirit, which was made with her heart's blood, to the Three Virgins to help her soul to travel to her homeland.
The world of the immortals is just a few days away, and the world is ten years away. Liu Yanchang's father and son failed to refine the precious lotus, and met with the soul of the Three Virgins in a dream, only to realize that the Virgin was crushed on Mount Hua. Under the revelation of Ganoderma Lucidum, Liu Yanchang threw his body into the furnace, and finally made the Pauline Lamp.
Shenxiang, with grief and tears in her eyes, lifted up the golden axe that the lamp had transformed into, and bravely climbed Mount Hua, overcoming the heavenly soldiers and defeating Erlangshen, splitting Mount Hua and rescuing the Three Holy Mothers. The true love of mankind is everlasting.
11, Yueju Opera "Dream of the Red Chamber" - Shanghai Yueju Theater
Since its founding in 1950, Shanghai Yueju Theater has won many awards for its creations, adaptations of more than 400 traditional and modern operas, and a group of famous Yueju Opera artists represented by Yuan Xuefen.
The newly created new version of the Yueju opera "Dream of the Red Chamber" is produced by the Shanghai Grand Theater Red Chamber Arts Co. Under the backdrop of large-scale choreography, the love tragedy of "Bao Dai" is brought to life by Yueju Opera, which is one of the most skillful in interpreting delicate emotions.
12, the play "life and death" - the Central Experimental Drama Theatre
The manuscript came to my desk in the spring of this year, I went back to Zhabei, around the time of the resumption of the hustle and bustle, but saw five years ago, Harbin, which naturally, is still only a sketch ......
However, the northern peasants for the strength of life, for the struggle of death, but often has been the force of paper, the female author of meticulous observation and transgressive penmanship, and added a lot of brightness and freshness. --Lu Xun The Second China Shanghai International Arts Festival was held from November 1 to December 1, 2000 in Shanghai. Its contents include: 1, China Dunhuang Art Exhibition; 2, Spain "Miro Art Exhibition"; 3, Qi Baishi Fine Arts Exhibition; 4, China's Western Xia Kingdom of the World of Words Exhibition; 5, Arts and Crafts Fine Arts Exhibition; 6, 2000 Shanghai Asian Music Festival; 7, the masses of culture; 8, the international performance trade fair
The second session of the festival was larger than the first. The scale of the festival exceeded that of the first, *** more than 1,600 foreign guests from 39 countries and regions came to participate in the various activities of the festival. As the main content, the month-long festival determined the performance of plays (festivals) ****54, of which 40 official participation, congratulatory performances of 14 programs. The Fifth China Shanghai International Arts Festival was held from October 18th to November 18th, 2003. Has come from the world's five continents, 26 countries and regions of the 52 plays (programs) to participate in the current Shanghai International Arts Festival official performances, 18 to participate in the congratulatory performances, of which 28 foreign plays (programs) and 10, respectively, are in more than half. As one of the important activities of the festival's international performance fair, attracted 27 countries and regions to participate in the representatives of the formal signing and reached cooperation intentions of 112 performance projects.
The festival's series of exhibitions and displays included 15 events, the most ever. The festival also successfully held the "Russian Culture Week", "Ba Jin Literature Week", the second China Shanghai International Youth Piano Competition, the Shanghai Asian Music Festival, the Shanghai International Magic Festival five "festival within a festival The five "festivals within festivals" have made the content of the festival more abundant. In addition, for the first time in the Festival debut of the Asia-Pacific Arts Festival Alliance Conference, the Yangtze River Delta Cultural Cooperation and Development Forum and other activities, both to expand the content of the Festival, but also to enhance the Shanghai International Arts Festival in the international and domestic cultural exchanges and cooperation functions. According to statistics, the total number of performances of the 5th Festival reached 165, with an audience of more than 400,000, while the number of Shanghai citizens who took part in the series of activities of the Festival was close to 1 million. On October 18, 2009, the 11th Shanghai International Arts Festival opened in the Opera Hall of Shanghai Oriental Art Center. Mr. Li Wufeng, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), attended and declared the opening of the 11th Shanghai International Arts Festival. Han Zheng, director of the festival's organizing committee, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and mayor of Shanghai, attended the opening ceremony.
The 11th China Shanghai International Arts Festival gathered the first-class masters, a collection of Chinese and foreign literary and artistic excellence, the festival will present 55 carefully selected domestic and foreign outstanding plays, a variety of forms, a collection of fine arts. Korean Cultural Week, Chongqing Cultural Week held during the festival activities are colorful, piano competitions, magic competitions, Oriental Comedy Show and a number of excellent plays and congratulatory performances, constituting the festival's colorful plays and performances. The Festival's exhibition and exposition activities were brilliant, with 12 exhibition and exposition activities, as well as international performance trade fairs, mass cultural activities, a series of seminars and forums, festival within a festival, and other six panels were breathtakingly beautiful, highlighting the Festival's innovative features, making the China Shanghai International Arts Festival more characterized by prosperity and development. On October 18, 2012, the "original" opera La Bohème, co-produced by the Shanghai Grand Theatre and the Salzburg Festival***, opened the 14th China Shanghai International Arts Festival. The main actors in the opera are a mixture of Chinese and foreign singers, changing the situation of unequal cultural cooperation between China and foreign countries. Through this model of cooperation, the 92-year-old Salzburg Festival also hoisted the five-star red flag for the first time.
The festival will have 46 carefully selected outstanding domestic and foreign repertoires and 14 exposition activities to meet the audience, bringing together many famous artists and troupes. In addition, more than 3,000 public **** cultural activities, as well as Henan Cultural Week, "Creative Britain" performance series, Wuxi branch, the international youth piano competition and a number of "festival within a festival" activities, is expected to attract more than 4.5 million people to participate.
The influx of famous foreign troupes also makes the word "international" live up to its name. World-class German Stuttgart Ballet will bring modern ballet "The Lady of the Camellias", the creative work of the whole play using Chopin piano music, from the plot to the background of the creation of a rich romanticism, is the "theater ballet" pinnacle of the work; the British Dynamic Multimedia Dance Company's "Water Shape" comprehensive use of multimedia images and dance, the visual effect is outstanding. The British Kinetic Multimedia Dance Company's "The Shape of Water" utilizes a combination of multimedia images and dance, with outstanding visual effects.
Additionally, the Taiwan Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Lu Shaojia, the three-time Grammy Award-winning National Chorus of Ireland, the famous Russian violinist Vadim Leben, and the Queen of Musical Theatre, Yilian Peggy, will be featured at the festival.
The festival concluded on the evening of November 20, 2012 at the Oriental Art Center. Zhang Jigang, China's famous choreographer and deputy director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, together with Russia's "conductor czar" Dzhegeyev, won the "Special Contribution Award" from the festival. Zhang Jigang has become the artist who has the deepest connection with the Shanghai International Arts Festival, and so far he has had six works on the stage of the festival, including the dance drama "Wild Zebra" and "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy".
After the closing ceremony, Chinese pianists Lang Lang and Dzerzhiev performed a spectacular symphonic concert with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra.
Over a month into the 14th China Shanghai International Arts Festival, more than 130 performing groups and 3,300 artists from 55 countries and regions around the world brought 46 performances of repertoire, and 150,000 spectators came into the theater to enjoy the artistic feast. The 17th Shanghai International Arts FestivalOn the evening of October 16, 2015, with the simultaneous staging of the musical Jews in Shanghai and the ballet The Song of Eternal Hatred at the Shanghai Cultural Square and the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the 17th Shanghai International Arts Festival of China, hosted by the Ministry of Culture and organized by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, officially opened its curtains.
The festival will present 46 carefully selected outstanding domestic and foreign repertoires and launch 10 large-scale art exhibitions, with the aim of being "a grand event of art and a festival for the people". According to statistics, during this year's festival theater performances *** counted more than 100. Including Sylvie? Gillian's global farewell performance "life without end", Yang Liping's original modern dance drama "ambush", Tao Body Theater "8", including three works will debut. On the music front, world-renowned orchestras such as the Dresden State Orchestra of Germany, the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra of Cologne, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as masters of the violin such as Perlman, Leben, and Zimmermann, will be on stage. Dance will be represented by the Russian modern ballet Eifelman Ballet's Anna Karenina, the Australian Ballet's Anna Karenina, and the Australian Ballet's Anna Karenina. Karenina" by the Eifman Ballet, "Cinderella" by the Australian Ballet, "Giselle" by the San Francisco Ballet and Tan Yuan Yuan, "Giselle" by Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company, "Giselle" by the American Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company, "Giselle" by the American Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company, and "Cinderella" by the Australian Ballet. Giselle" by San Francisco Ballet and Tan Yuan Yuan, and "Three Great Artists of the Twentieth Century" by Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company, showcasing the world's top contemporary modern dance companies. There are also many highlights in theater, the Chinese version of the National Theater of China's "War Horse", "Red", Peter Brook Theatre's Shanghai premiere of "The Valley of Amazement", Pu Cunxin's play "King Wu's Golden Goose and King Yue's Sword", and Hong Kong's Ann Hui's play "The Book of the Golden Locks" will meet the audience during the festival. Among the ten exhibitions of the festival, there will be a large number of rare national treasures through the Hunan Provincial Museum's "Dimension of Immortality - Mawangdui Han Tomb Art Exhibition", "Shanghai Young Literary Artists Cultivation Program", "Artists' Works Exhibition", "Shanghai Young Literary Artists Cultivation Program", "Shanghai Young Literary Artists Cultivation Program", and so on. The "Shanghai Young Literary Artists Cultivation Program", "Artists' Works Exhibition", and "Shanghai 21st Century Art Fair" are some of the exhibitions that will delight the audience. In addition, adhering to the "art event, the people's festival" purpose of the festival, the festival will also organize "Art Sky" series of performances, "art education", The festival will also hold the "Art Sky" series of performances, "Art Education", "Supporting Young Artists Program" series of activities, as well as a number of festivals within festivals, such as Tibetan Culture Week, Indian Culture Week, Wuxi Branch. This year's festival insisted on internationality, classicism and innovation, and combined with the themes of commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-fascist War, the construction of the "One Belt and One Road", and the promotion of the original Chinese opera culture, a number of works that closely follow the melody of the times were launched. For example, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the war of resistance and the world anti-fascist war and launched an original musical "Jews in Shanghai", the National Theatre drama "Chinese Soldiers", Russia's National (Far East) Song and Dance Troupe large-scale song and dance evening "Dance of Victory", around the "One Belt, One Road" launched the opera "Han Su Wu", "Painting the Silk Road - China's contemporary famous artists exhibition" and specially set up the Chinese opera exhibition section.