2022 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Central Opera House. In late April, the Central Opera House Theater, which has been under construction for seven years, opened its doors to welcome guests and was put into operation. Subsequently, due to epidemic prevention and control, the "2022 performance season to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Central Opera House" was postponed to June and officially kicked off. After the Western operas La Traviata and Turandot were staged in succession, the Central Opera House released a new version of Verdi's classic opera Rigoletto from August 4th to 6th.
The performance is led by Yuan Ding, the chief permanent conductor of the Central Opera House.
The opera Rigoletto, also known as Rigoletto, was written by Francesco Maria Piavi and adapted from Victor Hugo's play The King's Fun. In early 1851, Verdi completed the entire music of Rigoletto in 40 days. In 1852, Rigoletto premiered in Venice.
"Women, they like to change their minds, like feathers floating in the wind. They keep changing their minds and their voices, and they look cute. There is a way of kung fu, sometimes with tears, sometimes with smiles..." In order to give the audience an Surprisingly, Verdi didn't hand over the score for the famous aria "The Changeable Woman" to the actor until the day before the performance. Sure enough, the premiere was repeatedly interrupted by cheers and applause from the audience. "Rigoletto" and "The Changeable Woman" spread like wildfire and spread everywhere. So far, it has become a classic in the world theater, and it is also a touchstone for various opera troupes to demonstrate their performance capabilities.
Rigoletto's profession was Rigoletto's profession, as he was accustomed to see him, and he was a clown-like object of flattery and amusement. But is he a good guy or a bad guy? Still just an ordinary person, the audience needs to find answers in the play.
The new version of "Rigoletto" blurs the background of the times, giving the story and characters a distinctly modern character. The brief prelude kicked off, and also explained the dark curse motive, which appeared many times in the subsequent plot. The curtain opens, a circular Colosseum rotates from the back of the stage, and the fashion show begins. At this time, Rigoletto is set as the director of the fashion show, using fashion elements to construct theatrical stories and interpret theatrical characters ...
The surging news reporters watched it live: After the second act, according to the performance conventions of this play, Rigoletto and Gilda and their daughter sang the duet for the first time and would sing it again. With thunderous applause from the audience, the two actors, Sun Li and Mo Hong, walked out from behind the scarlet curtain. Mo Hong blinked playfully and spoke again in the sound of "Bravo" from many fans, "Great! O God, how sincerely I love him, yet he is so ruthless to me. I beg you to have pity on this heartless lover!"
It is worth mentioning that Mo Hong was a witness to the 1993 edition, and was also the "Gilda" of the year, ""Rigoletto" was the first drama I starred in after I entered the Central Opera House. In 1993, I just graduated , is the youngest actor in the crew, completely relying on a burst of enthusiasm and enthusiasm to fulfill the director's request."
In the 70-year history of the Central Opera House, it has premiered, launched and retained a number of world opera classics in China, including Turandot, La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, and Yevgeny Onegin", as well as "The White Haired Girl", "The Red Army Is Not Afraid of Difficult Expeditions", "The Red Detachment of Women", "Marco Polo", "Farewell My Concubine", "Dream of the Mountain Forest", "The Red Gang Tailor", etc. All in one. But in the hearts of generations of opera people, a common regret has always lingered: no matter how good other theaters are, they are not their "home" after all.
In 2015, the Central Opera House Theatre broke ground. After more than 2,000 days and nights of hard work, especially overcoming the repeated interference of the epidemic in the past three years, this ingenious theater from design to construction is finally "phoenix flying": it is about 138 meters long from east to west, and about 56 meters wide from north to south. meters, the total building height is 47.2 meters, and the total construction area is 41,000 square meters. Climbing up the long steps facing the busy East Second Ring Road, the 18 28-meter columns surrounding the theater are the first to come into view. Due to the different twist angles, it is like a phoenix tail feathers blooming smartly.
The newly completed Central Opera House theater is completely comparable to world-class theaters. The overall design takes "Phoenix" as the core concept to interpret the architectural connotation theme. The color of the theater is mainly golden yellow, and the interior golden yellow and red are intertwined, and the eastern and western elements are integrated. The oval-shaped auditorium is distributed in a spiral, just like the light shed when the phoenix takes off.
At the beginning of the design, the theater drew on the design elements of ancient Greek theaters. After being officially put into use, it has set a number of firsts in the industry: a professional opera theater with the largest orchestra pit in the country, a 150-square-meter orchestra pit that can seat 120 people, and can accommodate a large orchestra performing Wagner’s operas; the auditorium is on the 1st to 3rd floors. There are a total of 49 boxes on the 4th to 6th floors. The design of "balcony + box" can meet the needs of different audiences, creating a precedent for domestic opera houses. In addition, the horseshoe-shaped stand structure allows the C audience to achieve the best experience of 24 meters away from the actors, and the reverberation time is controlled at an excellent stage of 1.6 seconds to 1.8 seconds. Audiences get a nearly consistent sound experience no matter where they are in the theater.
According to previous reports by local media in Beijing, one of the major difficulties encountered in the construction of the theater was “doing a dojo in a snail shell”—20 meters to the west of the theater is the green belt of the East Second Ring Road, and a wall to the south is the office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Buildings—north, south, east, and west can’t be touched, only to do this “sublime” big article upwards. The entire construction of the new theater is managed by the BIM intelligent system. The material enters the site in units of days, and is accurately hoisted to the construction area. Even the installation plan of each steel structure component is refined to minutes. "The entire project uses There are tens of thousands of components, and each one has a unique QR code when it leaves the factory, which can be accurately installed after scanning at the construction site." Although the construction area of the theater project is only 1/3 of the "Bird's Nest", the use of each square meter The amount of steel is almost the same as the "Bird's Nest".
The performance is led by Yuan Ding, the chief permanent conductor of the Central Opera House.
"Rigoletto" stills. Photographed by He Lun, Zhang Zhengdong, etc.
Yi Liming and Yao Hong reunite after 30 years, "Humanity portrayed in opera is eternal"The opera Rigoletto, also known as Rigoletto, was written by Francesco Maria Piavi and adapted from Victor Hugo's play The King's Fun. In early 1851, Verdi completed the entire music of Rigoletto in 40 days. In 1852, Rigoletto premiered in Venice.
"Women, they like to change their minds, like feathers floating in the wind. They keep changing their minds and their voices, and they look cute. There is a way of kung fu, sometimes with tears, sometimes with smiles..." In order to give the audience an Surprisingly, Verdi didn't hand over the score for the famous aria "The Changeable Woman" to the actor until the day before the performance. Sure enough, the premiere was repeatedly interrupted by cheers and applause from the audience. "Rigoletto" and "The Changeable Woman" spread like wildfire and spread everywhere. So far, it has become a classic in the world theater, and it is also a touchstone for various opera troupes to demonstrate their performance capabilities.
1993 edition program list
In 1993, the Central Opera House specially invited Ansimov, a well-known director of the Bolshoi Theater, to direct Rigoletto. The whole hospital attaches great importance to it, the roles are selected through layers of selection, and the performance has achieved great success. In 2022, after a lapse of 29 years, in order to perfectly interpret this new version of "Rigoletto", the special director of the Central Opera House, Yi Liming, will direct, and opera artist and baritone singer Sun Li will play the role of "Rigoletto". Rigoletto, the tenor Li Shuang as the Duke of Mantua, sang the classic excerpt "Women Changeable". The vice president of the Central Opera House, the soprano singer Mo Hong, the chief permanent conductor Yuan Ding, and the new generation of young artists of the theater all devoted their energy and enthusiasm to this opera.Director Yi Liming and soprano Mo Hong
Yi Liming participated in the production of the 1993 edition and was the lighting designer at that time. In his opinion, "The human nature portrayed by opera is eternal. Compared with the premiere 29 years ago, the performance venue of the new version of "Rigoletto" has changed, the main creative team has changed, and the rehearsal method has changed... However, the central The Opera House's artistic pursuit of excellence has not changed."Rigoletto's profession was Rigoletto's profession, as he was accustomed to see him, and he was a clown-like object of flattery and amusement. But is he a good guy or a bad guy? Still just an ordinary person, the audience needs to find answers in the play.
The new version of "Rigoletto" blurs the background of the times, giving the story and characters a distinctly modern character. The brief prelude kicked off, and also explained the dark curse motive, which appeared many times in the subsequent plot. The curtain opens, a circular Colosseum rotates from the back of the stage, and the fashion show begins. At this time, Rigoletto is set as the director of the fashion show, using fashion elements to construct theatrical stories and interpret theatrical characters ...
stage design
The stage design is based on the ancient Roman Colosseum, and a large-scale performance space with quadruple rotation is constructed on the stage. Each scene is transformed with a storyline, and the performance is completed on this stage. The Duke's lyrical aria "Woman Changeable", Gilda's aria "Dear Name", the Duke and Madeleine, Gilda and Rigoletto's quartet "Beautiful Daughter of Love" and other famous arias are well received by the audience Loved it, which drew warm applause from the audience.The surging news reporters watched it live: After the second act, according to the performance conventions of this play, Rigoletto and Gilda and their daughter sang the duet for the first time and would sing it again. With thunderous applause from the audience, the two actors, Sun Li and Mo Hong, walked out from behind the scarlet curtain. Mo Hong blinked playfully and spoke again in the sound of "Bravo" from many fans, "Great! O God, how sincerely I love him, yet he is so ruthless to me. I beg you to have pity on this heartless lover!"
It is worth mentioning that Mo Hong was a witness to the 1993 edition, and was also the "Gilda" of the year, ""Rigoletto" was the first drama I starred in after I entered the Central Opera House. In 1993, I just graduated , is the youngest actor in the crew, completely relying on a burst of enthusiasm and enthusiasm to fulfill the director's request."
"Rigoletto" stills
"Phoenix Flying", Beijing Adds a New Cultural LandmarkIn the 70-year history of the Central Opera House, it has premiered, launched and retained a number of world opera classics in China, including Turandot, La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, and Yevgeny Onegin", as well as "The White Haired Girl", "The Red Army Is Not Afraid of Difficult Expeditions", "The Red Detachment of Women", "Marco Polo", "Farewell My Concubine", "Dream of the Mountain Forest", "The Red Gang Tailor", etc. All in one. But in the hearts of generations of opera people, a common regret has always lingered: no matter how good other theaters are, they are not their "home" after all.
In 2015, the Central Opera House Theatre broke ground. After more than 2,000 days and nights of hard work, especially overcoming the repeated interference of the epidemic in the past three years, this ingenious theater from design to construction is finally "phoenix flying": it is about 138 meters long from east to west, and about 56 meters wide from north to south. meters, the total building height is 47.2 meters, and the total construction area is 41,000 square meters. Climbing up the long steps facing the busy East Second Ring Road, the 18 28-meter columns surrounding the theater are the first to come into view. Due to the different twist angles, it is like a phoenix tail feathers blooming smartly.
The newly completed Central Opera House theater is completely comparable to world-class theaters. The overall design takes "Phoenix" as the core concept to interpret the architectural connotation theme. The color of the theater is mainly golden yellow, and the interior golden yellow and red are intertwined, and the eastern and western elements are integrated. The oval-shaped auditorium is distributed in a spiral, just like the light shed when the phoenix takes off.
At the beginning of the design, the theater drew on the design elements of ancient Greek theaters. After being officially put into use, it has set a number of firsts in the industry: a professional opera theater with the largest orchestra pit in the country, a 150-square-meter orchestra pit that can seat 120 people, and can accommodate a large orchestra performing Wagner’s operas; the auditorium is on the 1st to 3rd floors. There are a total of 49 boxes on the 4th to 6th floors. The design of "balcony + box" can meet the needs of different audiences, creating a precedent for domestic opera houses. In addition, the horseshoe-shaped stand structure allows the C audience to achieve the best experience of 24 meters away from the actors, and the reverberation time is controlled at an excellent stage of 1.6 seconds to 1.8 seconds. Audiences get a nearly consistent sound experience no matter where they are in the theater.
According to previous reports by local media in Beijing, one of the major difficulties encountered in the construction of the theater was “doing a dojo in a snail shell”—20 meters to the west of the theater is the green belt of the East Second Ring Road, and a wall to the south is the office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Buildings—north, south, east, and west can’t be touched, only to do this “sublime” big article upwards. The entire construction of the new theater is managed by the BIM intelligent system. The material enters the site in units of days, and is accurately hoisted to the construction area. Even the installation plan of each steel structure component is refined to minutes. "The entire project uses There are tens of thousands of components, and each one has a unique QR code when it leaves the factory, which can be accurately installed after scanning at the construction site." Although the construction area of the theater project is only 1/3 of the "Bird's Nest", the use of each square meter The amount of steel is almost the same as the "Bird's Nest".
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