But these classical music colleagues still expressed great interest, and those who informed the spirit of the news also knew that this girl had a lot to do with Qin Fangge, and was invited to perform as a guest at his concert. The answer to why she was invited instead of those already well-known violinists is quite obvious, as long as everyone knows it.

Such cocktail parties are common at home and abroad, but the National Centre for the Performing Arts basically does not do loss-making transactions, and those who can enter the reception must have an invitation letter to be qualified.

This is the premiere of Qin Fangge's first opera "Don Juan", and it is also the first Western opera created by the National Center for the Performing Arts, and the whole class of Chinese horses used is naturally of great significance.

Qin Fangge, the protagonist, was busy backstage in the opera hall, and with makeup and clothes, he didn't have the time or energy to appear on such an occasion.

So, Ning Xiupei, the mother of a musical genius, attended in place of him. Sister Song Zixuan's words will definitely not give them alcohol, you can drink some drinks and eat something.

Xi Wanqing, Xu Jing, Xue Min, He Ruyun, as well as Xu Xinyi, who rushed back, and her agent are also her sister-in-law Xie Wuflaw, a large group of beauties arrived at the reception very quickly, they are particularly familiar with this kind of reception, and after joining in, it is quite like a fish in water.

Qin Fangge and Zhou Xiuying are not there, but it does not prevent everyone from communicating happily with each other, there are really a lot of big people coming tonight, and there are many leaders at the national level alone, such as the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Culture, as well as the leaders of the Yanjing City Government Department, as well as departments such as the CPPCC, the Musicians Association and so on.

However, the leaders will come late, and it is said that several old leaders will also go backstage to visit the opera singers participating in the performance.

At the reception, there were many blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, and everyone could walk around and communicate with each other at will. is not only talking about art, such as Xi Wanqing and Xu Jing, they talk about business with others. Ning Xiupei didn't care about this matter, and basically left it to them to deal with.

Otherwise, the sponsorship fee would not have been paid for nothing? Isn't it just to open up popularity and tap more customer resources, which can be regarded as the highest style of the reception! Everyone sharpened their heads to get tickets on the day of the premiere, and it was all for such social purposes.

At half past six, a group of leaders also rushed to the Grand Theater, but they didn't have to go through the security check, they went directly to the VIP channel, and went directly to the cocktail party to participate in the opening cocktail party with everyone. Leaders have also canceled plans to visit musicians and artists backstage. In fact, they are more likely to cause trouble, and it will be really difficult for the opera singers to be too busy preparing for the opera performance, and they will have to spend time dealing with the visitors.

Many foreign singers refuse to visit before the performance, and some even like to lock themselves in the lounge to rest quietly, and no one will come until the performance.

Qin Fangge is not so exaggerated, he also actively shares the responsibility of Zhou Xiuying, the chief director, backstage, in order to make this premiere the most perfect.

Other opera singers and orchestra members don't have as much energy as him, Shen Jianping and Fan Qing all need to be quiet for a while, and after a three-hour performance, they have to store their physical strength and energy.

The members of the orchestra are already in place in the orchestra pit, and before the performance, they must quickly adjust their instruments, and if they have bad kidneys, they have to go to the toilet. The orchestra's conductor, Yu Dawei, made only a brief appearance at the reception before returning to prepare for the performance.

At 6:45, the guests of the reception, and the audience of tonight's opera, left the reception and rushed to the opera hall, where the banquet hall was held was on the first floor of the opera hall, and it was only two or three minutes away from it, plus finding a seat, it could be done before seven o'clock. During the intermission, if you don't have to worry about it, you can also go back to the party to continue social activities. After the performance, a celebration reception is also held here, and there will be a steady stream of food and drinks.

Sister Song Zixuan was not interested in the reception, and when the two girls followed to the opera hall, they were discussing the intermission time. But at the celebration banquet after the opera performance, they will definitely attend, and Qin Fangge will also attend at that time.

When they arrived at the opera house, they also saw a large group of acquaintances, and the girls of Jin Se Huanian were all dressed up beautifully, and the seats were also connected with Song Zixuan and them.

They had to greet each other, so in the period before the performance began, the opera house was as lively as a vegetable market. Originally, it was to give these people a chance to carry out social activities, talk about business if there is business, greet each other with acquaintances, everyone is dressed up, men wear suits and leather shoes, women are jewelry, and it seems that everyone is more elegant and artistic.

This time, the girls who were close to Qin Fangge's side were also all dispatched, and even Wu Hongqin, who had always only cared about practicing the piano and did not participate in the activities much, appeared in the opera hall under the leadership of Deng Hongmei. Not to mention Xiao Yuran, who has been actively participating in various activities, this girl didn't wear an evening dress, only an ordinary dress, but she was dressed quite formally, otherwise, on such an occasion, she would feel very different. Wu Hongqin's words, dressed in a black evening dress, was not specially added for this opera performance, she used to often go abroad to participate in competitions, and she also participated in a lot of various drinking parties, all of which were to be formally dressed. Their teacher, piano professor Deng Hongmei, was no exception, she rarely changed into a black dress, and was praised by Xiao Yuran and Zuo Shuqin.

In addition, Wu Yifen, a professor of the composition department who has always been concerned about Qin Fangge and the Jinse Huanian Orchestra, and Long Fujin were present today.

The other girls basically didn't call their parents to come together, Zuo Shuqin had no choice, Zuo Mengfeng didn't join in the fun, but her mother Wu Ruhui, as the director of the Ministry of Culture, was very active in encouraging and supporting such "elegant theatrical performances".

Moreover, as the ace opera work of the National Center for the Performing Arts, if it will go abroad and perform in Europe in the future, the Ministry of Culture will express its support and awards. The relevant application procedures have been given a long time ago, and it has been listed as a key project for cultural and artistic exchanges between China and Italy, and between China and the Czech Republic.

The Minister of Culture also came to the scene and had friendly meetings and exchanges with representatives of the Italian and Czech literary and artistic circles, the artistic directors and managers of the Roman Opera House and the Prague State Opera, the managers of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and other well-known figures in the classical music industry.

In the opera house, the audience also saw several cameras in operation, and now the photography and recording technology of the Grand Theater is quite mature, and tonight's premiere of "Don Giovanni" will definitely leave behind images and audio recordings. On such occasions, reporters and music critics are indispensable to participate, but even reporters can't take pictures, so if you need information, you can ask the Grand Theater. If you want to use it for news, you'll have to wait until tomorrow!

When the opera is performed in the opera house, it is strictly forbidden to use mobile phones, and things like video cameras and cameras are not even allowed to enter, and they cannot pass the security check. There is no way to use the mobile phone, you can't take it all! But the staff of the Grand Theater are also experienced in dealing with it, and all kinds of laser pointers are ready. In many previous performances, there were many unconscious audiences, which also allowed them to accumulate rich experience.

Tonight, such incivility and impoliteness should be rare, but if there is, it can easily spoil the overall atmosphere.

For example, before the performance of this opera, the opera hall was full of people, and the scene like the vegetable market made people feel a little bottomless.

Even people like Qin Fangge's mother, Ning Xiupei, will have no room for rest at all, Zuo Shuqin and Lin Baoqing can't ignore them, as well as Chen Tianhong and Han Wei, who were arched by Qin Fangge, Huang Jing and Wang Zizi, they are also enthusiastic, she can't pretend with a cold face that she didn't see it! What she can do is to try to be impartial and level a bowl of water like this, this thing should have been done by Qin Fangge herself, but now she has to do it.

Fortunately, the girls didn't mean to be petty, even if Qin Fangge was sorry for Lin Baoqing, when she was in front of Ning Xiupei, she was quite face-saving.

In addition to these girls, there are also professors from the Conservatory of Music, and Ning Xiupei has to respond one by one.

is also because Zhou Xiuying and Shen Jianping don't have time to toss these now, these social activities can only be done by Ning Xiupei herself, which also makes her realize that the identity of a musician's mother is really tiring.

It's the same on their side, and it's the same everywhere else.

On the leaders' side, the situation was even more complicated, but fortunately, the scene soon ended with the appearance of the orchestra's conductor Yu Dawei.

The atmosphere of the opera hall has also been transformed in an instant, and it has truly become a palace of elegant art, and all kinds of noise have been replaced by applause.

Smiling, Yu Dawei walked to the orchestra pit that had been prepared, first shook hands with the two principal violins, then bowed to the audience, and then walked to his own podium, and the warm applause also stopped in time.

At seven o'clock, as Yu Dawei stretched out his arms and threw the baton in his hand downward, the orchestra played a majestic and passionate melody in unison, and the performance of the opera "Don Juan" officially kicked off. There's no need to report the curtain at all, let alone a long list of particularly annoying welcome words or something like that.

The orchestra plays the overture first, which puts the audience into the mood and gives a foreshadowing of the whole play, and there are no words or actors who start performing now, and the music in the overture says it all.

This Don Juan overture is quite good, and it seems to inherit Qin Fangge's consistent melodic and beautiful characteristics, at least, it will not make the audience feel sleepy, and it also attracts the audience's minds very well.

Even the audience, whose minds were full of business, money, power, and the like, was so low, and it seemed that everyone's style had risen in the atmosphere of the orchestra playing with all its might and the people around them were sitting in a precarious atmosphere. No one whispered anymore, or looked around, or even dared to take an extra breath of the atmosphere, and wanted to experience the infinite charm of music and art.

Looking at hundreds of orchestra members in front of them, playing for themselves, such a big scene is really not something that can be replaced by other performances and occasions, and it will make people feel a kind of immersion in it. It can also make people forget the troubles and sorrows in reality, and they can intrigue with each other, just rest assured to appreciate the beauty of opera art.

After the overture, the curtain on the stage of the opera house really opened, and the acolyte played by the bass singer Fan Qing was the first to appear, in the background of a castle, denouncing the master Don Juan for only being merry, but not caring about his life or death, let him stand guard for him.

Then Qin Fangge's Don Juan appeared, and at the beginning, he couldn't get along with Zhai Liyin, who played Donna Anna, in the castle window. After this thing brought a mask and hooked up with Donna Anna, he wanted to flash and leave, but was entangled by Donna Anna and refused to let him go. The quarrel attracted Donna Anna's father, the chief knight, to decide that the masked man was the whore who had insulted his daughter, and wanted to fight him. It's a pity that the old and frail were easily killed by Don Juan and fled with his attendants, and when Donna Anna arrived with someone, the knight chief had already received the lunch, and he didn't forget the previous paragraph before he died......

The plot is not difficult to understand, and the audience who has done their homework knows something about this opera, and the general plot is also known. In front of the seats and even in front of the standing area, there is also a real-time translation of the timeline Chinese, which is quite helpful to help understand the plot.

Of course, when the audience comes to the opera house, they don't just look at the translation of the opera script, they just look at it, and the focus is still on the situation on the stage.

Opera is a comprehensive art that involves a lot of things, and the orchestra alone deserves to be said. The music played by hundreds of them is only a small part of the opera.

In addition to hearing, the audience is a visual animal, so the performance of the opera singers on stage is the most important.

Here, Qin Fangge dedicated the highest appearance, even if his dress was very characteristic of the Spanish aristocracy at that time, and he was relatively outdated compared to now, but he couldn't stand his tall and burly figure and was very handsome, and the mask couldn't hide it, and when he took off the mask, countless viewers couldn't take their eyes off.

Also, even the average audience member will pay attention to other things on stage, such as backgrounds, props, lighting, and so on. Experts in the industry will be more stringent, and will carefully judge how well the props are done, whether they are real or not, how effective the costume design is, whether the lighting and stage design exceed the average level in the industry, and so on.

In short, there are too many things to pay attention to in an opera performance, and if any aspect is not done properly, it is possible to be picked on by these experts, and ordinary audiences and fans are much more tolerant.

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