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Chinese Opera - The Red Guards on Honghu Lake
Published on May 17, 2013
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Genre: NCPA
Dates: June 28 - July 1, 2013
Venue: Opera House of NCPA
Prices: 100, 280, 380, 550, 600, 680, 880
Features: NCPA's production of the Red Guards on Honghu Lake will be staged at Opera House from June 28th to July 1st. This feast of classic national opera will take the audiences back to that extraordinary time and reignite the passion in them.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION
The classic opera The Red Guards on Honghu Lake was completed in 1958. In October 1959, Hubei Province staged the opera in Beijing for the first time as a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Republic. The performance was a huge success, and the opera has since then become a treasure of China's national operas. China's previous generations of leaders, including Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, He Long, and Chen Yi, had all watched the performance of the opera and gave very high praise of it. After it was made into a film, it became a household name all around China.
Red Guards on the Honghu Lake tells the story of the red guards in Mianyang of Hubei Province, led by township Party secretary Han Ying and Captain Liu Chuang, defending their homeland and carrying out arduous fight against the enemy in 1930, showing the resolute revolutionary belief of the communists and their close relationship with the people. Famous passages from the opera, including Waves after Waves in Honghu Lake, No Tears, No Sorrow, and Wait and See the Liberation of All Suffering People, have become the collective memory of the Chinese people in the past half a century.
As China's national performing arts center, NCPA has the duty to carry forward and promote classic Chinese works. After two years of discussion, NCPA has partnered with Hubei Provincial Opera and Dance Drama Theatre, who is the holder of the copyright of The Red Guards on Honghu Lake. A top-notch production team in China, led by renowned director Zhang Jigang, who is the creator of the dance Thousand-handed Bodhisattva and one of the key figures in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympiad, is invited to re-stage this classic work, striving to bring new life to this classic in the modern era and let it continue to move and touch today's audiences.
This production upholds an attitude of carrying forward and promoting this classic work. On the basis of preserving the sentiments of the original music, Dong Yuexian, who is in charge of music creation and arrangement in this production, gives delicate touch and modification to the music, making it more suitable for operatic and musical presentation and more appealing to the modern audiences, particularly the young ones. Gao Guangjian, stage designer, brings the classic scene of the vastness of the Honghu Lake and the expansive lotus field onto the stage through romantic design and magnificent multi-media visual effects, perfectly combining the virtually real scenes with the beautiful melody.
Tickets for Chinese Opera - The Red Guards on Honghu Lake are Available now!
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BOOKING INFORMATION
Booking From: Friday, May 17, 2013
Booking Until: Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013
Show Time: Jun 28 - Jul 1, 2013 / 7:30pm
Running Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
TICKET PRICES
- 100
- 280
- 380
- 550
- 600
- 680
- 880
Prices are in RMB (“×” Sold Tickets), Include Booking Fees
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