China National Opera

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For the equivalent company producing traditional Chinese opera, see China National Peking Opera Company.
China National Opera House

The China National Opera House (CNOH) or China Central Opera (中央歌剧院) is a State-run

opera company based in Beijing, China, and under the Chinese Ministry of Culture. CNOH consists of an opera troupe, a choir, a symphony orchestra and a stagecraft, costume and scenery departments. It is affiliated, through common direction under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, with the Shanghai Opera House
company and other geju companies around China.

History

The China Central Opera was preceded in

White-Haired Girl
. The opera troupe relocated to Beijing in 1952 and was officially established in 1952 as the national opera company directly under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Productions in China

CNOH staged La Boheme in Beijing in 1986 with Luciano Pavarotti and later

Three Tenors Forbidden City Concert. In 2009, CNOH staged Turandot with Zhang Yimou in the "Bird's Nest" Beijing National Stadium, and again in the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium
in Taiwan.

Tours abroad

CNOH has toured abroad since its conception, first in socialist countries, then in the west. In 1988 CNOH was guest company at the Savonlinna Opera Festival performing Carmen, Madam Butterfly, Verdi's Requiem as well as Chinese-language opera. In 2008 CNOH toured America with 10 performances of the original creation Farewell My Concubine (modern opera). In the same year CNOH performed Puccini’s Turandot in Cairo Opera House.

On 24 November 1956, they were on return to China after an opera tour in

1956 Eglisau Ilyushin Il-12 plane crash.[4]

Building

National Centre for the Performing Arts

The administrative offices, practice rooms and a rehearsal theatre, often referred to as the "Central National Opera House," are located at

Shanghai Oriental Art Centre
, supplies opera singers to television stations and for concert performances, and tours abroad. On April 20, 2022, a press conference was held at the newly built Opera House in Beijing. The total construction area of the theater is 41,000 sqm. On May 1, 2022, the National Opera House officially opened to the public. On the evening of July 6, 2022, the opening concert of the National Opera House Theater was performed.

Repertoire

The repertoire of the company has now expanded to "

Countryside Girl Teacher, The Love Story of Rawap 2009 and Revolution in 1911
2011, staged in Macau.

People

Presidents of CNOH include Li Bozhao, Zhou Weizhi, Lu Su, Zhao Feng, composer Ma Ke, Li Ling, Liu Lianchi, Wang Shiguang, Chen Xieyang and Liu Xijin. Conductor Yu Feng is the current president. Notable singers of the company, past and present include Yuan Chenye, baritone.

References

  1. ^ Contemporary Chinese theatre - Page 8 Roger Howard - 1978 "1 The yangko dramas Brothers and Sisters Open up Wasteland and The White-haired Girl were produced by the Lu Hsun Academy in Yenan. These musical plays owed something to the modern drama (huachu) — in particular in their more ."
  2. ^ "Twee vliegtuigongelukken eisten 57 slachtoffers" (in Dutch). Dagblad voor Noord-Limburg [nl]. 26 November 1956 – via Delpher.
  3. ^ "Twee ernstige vliegrampen 33 en 23 doden". Nieuwe Winterswijksche courant (in Dutch). 26 November 1956 – via Delpher.
  4. ^ "Vliegrampen eisen 35 en 23 doden". Het Vrije Volk (in Dutch). 26 November 1956 – via Delpher.

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