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Unveiling the Performance Plan of the Peking National Opera Company for 2024

Original title: The Peking National Opera Company has released its performance plan for 2024 and many new Peking operas will be unveiled soon.

People’s Daily Online, Beijing, April 7 (Reporter Liu Yingying) “This year, a large number of new Peking Opera works will be completed and will be released to the audience.” Recently, the National Peking Opera Company held a spring 2024 press conference Wang Yong, Director of the National Peking Opera Company presented the key tasks in 2024 in terms of repertoire creation, performance broadcasting, and industry development. In terms of new repertoire, the modern Peking opera “Old Auntie” and the new historical drama “Return to the Homeland” focus on realistic and historical themes. Peking opera “The Peony Pavilion” and “Women’s History” give classical works differently. taste, and the situational concert “Spring and Autumn” is on stage The chords of literature and music are formed in the interpretation.

In order to deepen the two major performance brands of “Sound of Spring” and “Rhymes of Autumn”, the theater will launch the 2024 “Sound of Spring” performance season during the “May Day” holidays and the 2024 “October Rhythm” performance. .season during the “National Day” holiday Peking Opera presents a tribute to the 75th anniversary of the founding of New China.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Zhang Chunhua, Cheng Yanqiu, Mei Lanfang, and Ye Shenglan. The theater will successively launch “Wu Yue Chunhua – Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Zhang Chunhua and the Peking National Opera Company” in May, June, October, and November respectively.” “Fourth Opera Exhibition Wushu” “One Process of Music and One Process of Love – A Series of Performances to Commemorate the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Mr. Cheng Yanqiu” “Excellent Elegance – A Series of Performances to Commemorate the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Mr. Mei Lanfang” “Deep Roots and Thin Leaves – to Commemorate the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Mr. Ye Shenglan” “110 Years Performance Series” reproduces the classic works of the Peking Opera masters, remembers the sublime artistic qualities of the ancestors and inherits the exquisite skills of the performance.

In addition, the National Peking Opera Company will continue to tour new and classic plays. The new historical drama “Returning to the Song Dynasty”, the modern Peking opera “The Protagonist”, “Xiong’an Family” and “Old Auntie”, and the classic dramas “Red Lantern”, “Phoenix Returns to the Nest” and “Dragon and Phoenix Present” will go on tour to different places.

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