80 years ago, the Chinese Worker’s and Peasants’ Red Army completed the Long March attracting the worldwide attention under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. In the 25,000 journey, the soldiers of the Red Army experienced the complications and overcame many difficulties and obstacles to open up the Chinese revolution’s bright road continuing with the past and opening up the future and establish the important foundation for the Chinese revolution to march onward victoriously.
In order to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army’s Long March, National Centre for the Performing Arts spared no effort to invite the domestic first-class artists including Yin Qing, Zou Jingzhi and Tian Qinxin to constitute the creative group to grandly launch the Chinese opera commission The Long March.
The opera The Long March has lasted four year since its creation preparations. This operation loyally reproduces the hard process of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasant’s Red Army’s Long March with the realism technique, eulogizes the Red Army’s sublime faith to struggle and sacrifice for the ideal and faith and cherishes the memory of the Long March such a great miracle in the human history on this account. The famous librettist Zou Jingzhi has fully respected the historical facts, reproduced the spirit of the Long March by portraying the figures such as Commander Zeng, Commissar Peng and Boy Ping, and eulogized this history needing to be remembered from the contemporary perspective.
The whole opera has six screens of nine scenes in total, with over 30 dramatic personages and the chorus of hundreds of people, which has been a piece of opera commissions with the largest performance scale in NCPA till now. The great history of Long March ensures our today’s peaceful life, and each note of the spirit of the Long March contains the era factor and has the inspiring and shocking spiritual strength. Let’s walk into NCPA and review this period of sufferings and glory through the artistic charm of the opera.
Venue: Opera House
Dates: Jul. 01, 2016-Jul. 06, 2016
Source: chncpa.org
