Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) As the first opera performance staged by the Shunyi Grand Theater, due to the leadership of Kui Zhi and Li Shengsu, the traditional Peking Opera "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" of the National Peking Opera House, which gathers Many Peking Opera actors such as Du Zhe, Jiang Qihu, Zhang Jing, Wang Yue, will be staged at the Shunyi Grand Theater on September 3. Peking Opera "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" is known as the "auspicious play" in the Peking Opera circle, the scene is grand, the plot is vivid, the industry is complete, the lineup is neat, and the birth and death are all useful, and it is a classic traditional drama of family celebration that people must order when listening to the drama during the New Year's Festival.
Stills from the Peking opera "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang". Courtesy of the organizer
Peking Opera "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" is one of the plays in the "Xia Yun Chaobai Performance Season" created by Shunyi Grand Theatre. From July to September 2021, the performance season is divided into three sections: Dance Feast, Drama Life, and Enlightenment Classics. The performance season has staged one of the representative works of the Central Ballet "Swan Lake", the first original large-scale independent symphony work of the National Ballet Symphony Orchestra "Symphony Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei", the Beijing Dance Academy Youth Dance Troupe "Jinggang Jinggang" that won the 11th Chinese Dance "Lotus Award", etc., followed by the traditional drama Peking Opera "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" starring Kui Zhi and Li Shengsu, and the popular national super IP Chinese Puppet Art Theater cartoon stage play "A Day of the Birthday of the New Big Head Son and the Little Head Father" , Beijing Children's Art Theater's large-scale dinosaur fairy tale drama "You Look Like Delicious", Hangzhou Dramatic Arts Center's "Long Time No See", "Time Rental Hall" and many other excellent performance plays.
It is worth mentioning that shunyi grand theater relies on the advantages of China Foreign Culture Group and its Chinese theater platform and performance resources, and the production and debut of heavy stage plays are placed in Shunyi Grand Theater. It includes the stage play "Activity Transforms into Human Form" adapted from Wang Meng's classic novel, and the stage play "Fifteen Days of Two Capitals" and so on. In the future, Shunyi Grand Theatre will establish a good cooperative relationship with domestic and foreign repertoire producers and producers through standardized services, and implement the rehearsal and premiere of the repertoire to create the positioning of "premiere theater".
Shunyi Grand Theatre. Courtesy of the organizer
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
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