Shen Jianping was very satisfied with Qin Fangge's performance, but after school in the afternoon, he didn't forget to remind him to go to the National Center for the Performing Arts to rehearse the next day.

With less than a month to go before Don Juan's official premiere, it was still quite nervous, and all the tickets for the show had already been sold out. Originally, it was scheduled to perform for four consecutive nights, but in the end, after Zhou Xiuying discussed with everyone, she decided to add one more performance, and the tickets were sold out faster.

The day of the premiere is May 27, Wednesday to Sunday, and the test for the opera singers is also quite large, Shen Jianping and they can actually be rotated, but Qin Fangge, the protagonist, has no way to replace, and he can only work hard to perform every night. After all, the audience is coming for him, and if he dares to disappear, the audience will riot every minute.

Without the pressure of attendance, Shen Jianping and Zhou Xiuying can also focus all their energy on the rehearsal and performance of the opera.

Everyone attaches great importance to this, because this opera is completely created by the Chinese themselves, from the original of the opera, to the stage art design, lighting design, costume design, choreography, etc., all made by Zhou Xiuying and her domestic counterparts. Over the years, the National Centre for the Performing Arts and their opera singers have exchanged and cooperated with their foreign counterparts many times, and have also cultivated relevant talents.

and Zhou Xiuying, a leading figure, personally sat in charge and served as the chief director, to ensure the quality of opera performances. Moreover, not only to perform at the National Center for the Performing Arts in China, but also to take the team to the world. A few days ago, I traveled to Europe and decided on the performance schedule of this opera.

They don't want to be embarrassed by their peers abroad, Qin Fangge is naturally no problem, this is also a fact that Zhou Xiuying is sure of, although the other opera singers are green leaves, but the level can't be too bad, isn't it? It is unrealistic to improve a few levels in a short period of time, but you must also work hard, at least, your attitude must be particularly correct.

For this reason, the performance of the opera "Don Juan" this time, with many big names, can also be called a feast for the Chinese opera industry. The biggest card is, of course, Qin Fangge, a particularly box office appeal, "Don Juan" who is both a composer and a singer.

What especially makes Zhou Xiuying and her sisters happy is that Qin Fangge has successfully attracted a large number of young people to buy tickets to listen to the opera, which plays a vital role in the development of the opera industry. After so many years of hard work, Zhou Xiuying herself has attended many occasions, TV shows, various competitions as judges, etc., and has promoted a lot, but it has not increased the number of opera audiences.

The downturn in the opera market is not only at home, but also abroad, not only in opera, but also in the entire classical music market.

Qin Fangge, a young tenor singer and composer, was born out of nowhere, with countless fans, and successfully brought many fans into the pit of classical music. Whether it is by virtue of appearance or talent, the result is also particularly obvious, and it is also the situation that Zhou Xiuying, who has been engaged in opera career all her life, is most happy to see.

The attendance rate of the opera house is the most telling thing, before Qin released the song, there was never such a situation where opera tickets were so popular, even if the major actors of famous foreign opera houses came to perform in China, there was more than 80% attendance, which was enough for everyone to be happy for a while!

Qin Fangge's participation in the performance is more than 100% attendance, and you don't have to think about it to know that the National Center for the Performing Arts will definitely open more standing tickets to the audience. This is not only the case at the National Theatres, but also at the Roman Opera House and the Prague State Opera. There is no way, Qin Fangge's performance is too popular, whether it is vassally elegant or really knows how to appreciate opera, whether he is conquered by his strength, or simply looking at his face, or being fooled into the opera house by his title as the world's number one tenor.

Zhou Xiuying and Shen Jianping are particularly sure that as long as they have watched Qin Fangge's live performance, the audience will definitely be conquered by his wonderful performance, as for whether to become his brain-dead fan or a sanity fan, passer-by fans are not so important. Moreover, they are all sure that the next time there is an opera performance by Qin Fangge, the audience who has heard it will 100% go to grab tickets.

Zhou Xiuying and their students see it this way, Liu Yu, Wei Chu, Xiao Yiyi, and their students are also the same, and there are also those who have more radical ideas.

Shen Jianping and Zhou Xiuying are also thinking about organizing students from the Conservatory of Music to go to the opera hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts to observe the rehearsal next month.

This is really giving them benefits, although they don't have enough foundation now, and they can't participate in such a high-level opera performance. But as a student of vocal opera, it is necessary to watch more live performances, and the difference between watching videos and listening to records is also quite obvious.

Because the tickets have long been sold out, even if Qin Fangge is a big name, there is no way to get too many tickets for the classmates and teachers in the school, and he and the Grand Theater have to think about the audience who are really willing to spend money. But these requirements are also objective, and the rehearsal before the performance is the best solution.

Of course, such a thing must not be made public, otherwise, the audience who buys tickets will definitely feel very psychologically unbalanced. But for peers in the vocal opera industry, this is actually nothing, and it always has to be rehearsed first.

For example, Qin Fangge and them are only practicing in the rehearsal room of the Grand Theater now, and the formal performance stage has not yet been built.

Because there will be other opera performances before that, it will probably take a week before the official performance of the opera to arrange the prepared props on the stage, and the lighting design will also be arranged during this period.

This is also the reason why opera performances are extremely expensive, and the manpower and material resources used in the construction of the scene alone are particularly expensive, as well as various props and costumes. Then, there are two super-large ensembles, the choir and orchestra of the State Opera, which are also essential for opera performances.

After the stage is arranged, Qin Fangge and the other opera singers will definitely go up to rehearsal first, it is impossible to say that they only went to the official stage of the opera hall for the first time on the day of the premiere.

The odds of this happening are quite high, not to mention the professional singing of the opera singers, the coordination with the backstage staff, the transition of different scenes, and the coordination with the choir orchestra, all of which have to be rehearsed first, and problems are found and solved. Especially since this is their premiere, unlike those classic operas, everyone is already familiar with them.

Qin Fangge also agrees with this, to be honest, he is also a person who is more afraid of trouble, classmates and friends around him or something, it is not easy to ask him for tickets or something. Shen Jianping and these singers are the same, but many times, for the sake of face, it is not easy to refuse, and many times they have to post it themselves.

This time is no exception, especially Qin Fangge's opera is so hot, it seems that the people around him have suddenly become very tall, wearing formal clothes to enjoy the opera, it is very compelling to speak, the key is for others to listen, if you don't listen to it, you feel outdated, although they may not usually listen to opera at all. But the tickets are only so much, and Shen Jianping, Zhai Liyin, Zhou Hongxia, and Qi Hong, who participated in the performance, are also annoyed by this, and this is still the situation where their acquaintances and friends know that they are engaged in opera performances.

This contrast is also particularly obvious, before this, these friends and acquaintances, even if they knew that there was an opera performance, did not appear to be as interested in the opera performance as they are now. Whether it's following the trend or what, it's very revealing, Qin Fangge's singers, sisters and brothers often sigh, "At least everyone knows that there is such a thing as an opera performance, and they are willing to spend time and energy caring about tickets." We paid for the tickets for them before, but in the end they didn't go to the scene, which made people quite speechless. This has to be said that Qin Fangge's current influence is really huge...... We've been imperceptibly for so many years, and we haven't been as effective as him!"

And Qian Feifei's staff at the Grand Theater know even more and often say that many tickets for opera performances are free tickets for sponsors, and everyone will not cherish what they seem to have obtained for nothing. There are often good places that are still vacant, and even if people come, many of them don't know opera at all, and it's not uncommon to do some rude things.

This also often makes the Grand Theater criticized by fans who really like opera, and they also think that they really chill the hearts of fans by doing so.

However, the National Centre for the Performing Arts and other opera houses are also quite helpless, because if they want to run such a large institution, they will not know how many times they will close down by selling tickets to the audience! They still have to rely on government grants and corporate sponsorship to survive.

If people are not allowed to pretend, there will really be no sponsorship!

Qin Fangge and Shen Jianping are also well aware of this situation, and if they go abroad to see the miserable operation of many foreign opera houses, they will find that the National Center for the Performing Arts is still very nourishing and very rich. If you don't have money, it will not be easy for Zhou Xiuying and Qin Fangge to put the opera "Don Juan" on the stage, let alone perform abroad!

It is also the most normal thing for the National Centre for the Performing Arts to give part of the tickets to these sponsors, especially when such an organization involves interpersonal relationships. Anyway, Qin Fangge didn't want to worry about it, Xi Wanqing and Zhou Xiuying were the same, and they didn't care if the International Center for the Performing Arts would take advantage of the popularity of such opera performances to attract more sponsorship or even engage in title or something.

The hole in the opera performance is too big, Qin Fangge's current money is not enough to watch, and he can't afford to burn it, so if he can ensure the smooth progress of the opera performance, he can get the corresponding remuneration himself, everything is OK.

As for Qin Fangge's symphony concert, the cost is not an order of magnitude at all with opera performances, and it can be said that it is just a drop in the bucket, which is another matter.

Xi Wanqing and her team are also very concerned about this, and they also determined the way to buy votes through Weibo voting. In the end, there is no doubt that the way to sign up for the lottery to lock the name ID card mobile phone number won with an absolutely crushing attitude.

Even so, they still have to negotiate with the National Center for the Performing Arts, and the number of reserved tickets is also a key part of the negotiation between the two sides. The general environment of the whole world is like this, no matter how awesome Qin Fangge is, he can't jump out, it's nothing more than bargaining and negotiating with each other.

Compared with these bad things, Qin Fangge and Shen Jianping would rather focus their limited energy on art, and leave other things to the brokerage team. But even big-name soprano singers such as Shen Jianping, Zhai Liyin, Zhou Hongxia, and Qi Hong are all as swaggering as Qin Fangge, and they all have their own companies and teams.

This is also where there is a big difference between singers and celebrities, of course, the most important thing is in income. For example, those popular star singers and actors basically have their own agents and companies. If singers do the same, they can't support so many people at all, their current income is not high, and the appearance fee can be 100,000 yuan, which is a big card, and sometimes they have to prepare for several months.

And those stars or something, a commercial performance is hundreds of thousands, and there is no comparison.

Qin Fangge's situation is the most special, and it is different from everyone else, and he does not participate in any commercial performances. At present, the main income is still based on music and other games or something, and recently invested in making movies and TV series, but many people are not optimistic about it. In particular, he also invested in making movies himself, and in their opinion, it was no different from throwing them into the water! In particular, many people in the film industry even let him develop in the music industry and not do things that he is not good at.

Of course, since Qin Fangge is using his own investment, such warning words are not taken seriously at all, and he does not have the same pressure as other directors at all. It's cool to make a movie with other people's money, you don't have to bear the loss yourself, you can get paid left and right, but the quality of the things you shoot is not guaranteed. It is also common for funders to point fingers and stuff some actors in, and it is also the norm for artistic creation to often succumb to capital. The IP that is particularly popular nowadays, small fresh meat or something, is like this.

Qin put the song on his head and insisted on going his own way, and others just waited to see the jokes.

Only Qin Fangge's fans especially support him, of course, fans are not so confident in the quality of the movie.

However, they at least have expectations, "Even if the movie is not very good, just listening to the music will be worth the ticket price! Not to mention, there is also a symphony! This style alone is not at all comparable to other movies, right? When the soundtrack comes out, you must buy it!"

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