The Grand Canal Cultural Festival is coming, and the opening ceremony is today. After the opening of the 8th Grand Canal Cultural Festival, famous opera artists will gather here to create a visual feast for everyone. Opera clubs from all over the world gather here, and opera lovers should not miss these wonderful things!

Why should the Grand Canal Opera Festival be held

In fact, the waterway of the Grand Canal is also a play road, and opera is an important part of the Grand Canal culture. Gongshu District is located at the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Gongshu section of the canal is the most complete, detailed and rich in resources. It has the reputation of "Gongshu in Canal Culture". Gongshu also has profound traditional Chinese opera culture.

The tea garden in Qiaotou, Chen Gong, began in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. Since ancient times, it has been a good place to enjoy tea and watch plays. Many famous opera singers have performed in the tea garden in Qiaotou, Chen Gong. There used to be four theaters here: Fairy Theatre, Yangchun Theatre, Ronghua Theatre and Fuxian Theatre. China opera master Gai Jiaotian's first play was staged at the Fairy Theatre. Now Ronghua Opera Garden is located in the former site of Ronghua Tea Garden.

Today, Zhao's workshop, the reopened Ronghua Opera Garden, the No.9 Kunqu Opera Theater in Canal Attic Park and the enduring Minxing Grand Stage are all popular positions for opera fans to inherit and spread operas.

wonderful activities take turns to appear.

"Our Gongshu has such a deep accumulation and foundation of opera, and at the same time, we find that ordinary people like opera very much."

Gu, executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Gongshu District Committee, said that as early as this year's Spring Festival, there was a "water test" of the opera canal: from October 22 to 25, the "Happy Chinese New Year" Grand Canal Opera Week jointly sponsored by Hangzhou Dramatists Association and the Propaganda Department of Gongshu District Committee opened in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum, welcoming Zhao Zhigang, Dong Kedi and Xie Qunying, and held a special lecture.

The first Grand Canal Drama Festival was born. Based on the principle of simplicity, solemnity and significance, wonderful activities will be staged in turn from May 23rd to the end of June.

For example, at 7: 11 pm on May 23rd, at the opening ceremony of the Grand Canal Opera Festival with the theme of "Joy of the Millennium, Prosperity of Drama", folk opera lovers, local opera associations, etc. Can share five "clubs".

(Zhao Zhigang, Chen Cheng, Chen,) perform on the same stage, including the street Yue Opera Troupe and the middle school Kunqu Opera Club, and residents can also participate.

On May 24th, the Grand Canal online celebrity drama conference "The Canal is Full of Your Youth" began to register. Opera lovers can sign up in 1-5 minutes by uploading their works on the live broadcast platform, and have the opportunity to become "online celebrities"!

In addition, the theme song Good Luck Canal will be released for the first time at the opening ceremony, and a micro-documentary "Gongchen Play" will be released with Ronghua Opera Garden as the main shooting venue.

From May 23rd to the end of June, the 8th Grand Canal Culture Festival and the 1st Grand Canal Drama Festival will be grandly opened on the banks of Hangzhou Canal.

The theme of the first Grand Canal Drama Festival is "A Millennium Melody, Traditional Chinese Opera Will Prosper". The opening ceremony of the Opera Festival, the performance of classic plays along the Grand Canal, the performance of famous opera stars, the online celebrity drama conference of the Grand Canal, the Grand Canal and opera, and the 11th Zhejiang Opera Forum will be staged in turn.

At the opening ceremony of the Grand Canal Opera Festival at 7:11 pm on May 23rd, there are several highlights that can't be missed: five "Plum Blossoms" (Zhao Zhigang, Chen Cheng and Chen) will perform on the same stage with folk opera lovers and local opera societies, and release the theme opera song "Good Luck Canal" for the first time, making Gongshu section of the Grand Canal a place where opera cultures gather, and beautiful melodies will last forever along the Grand Canal.

the schedule of the grand canal cultural festival.