"What else to do with the new show? I was attracted by your New Year's show, and I won't have a long vacation at that time. Fang Xudong couldn't cry or laugh.

Chen Ziang smiled: "Look, let you take a holiday, you won't want to, don't say I'm harsh to you in the future." ”

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Vienna, located on the banks of the Danube River, the capital of Austria and a major cultural center in Europe, is known as the "Music Capital of the World".

Wang Yin, as the top singer in China, came here to hold a concert this year.

Chen Ziang, as her only student, naturally followed.

In the world's national music circle, Chen Ziang's name is unknown, he is not here to support the scene, but to increase knowledge and gild.

This is Wang Yin's request, and he can't do it if he doesn't come.

Wang Yin's concert venue is located in Vienna's Musikverein.

After the rehearsal, Chen Ziang stood outside the building, feeling a little heavy.

Wang Yin seems to be well-known all over the world in China, and after coming here, Chen Ziang found out.

That's not the case at all, Wang Yin revealed to him that there are not many foreigners who buy tickets.

Seventy percent of the audience is attended by overseas Chinese, and more than twenty percent of foreign audiences are attracted by tickets sent out through local channels.

Then, the remaining less than 10% of foreign audiences are the real foreign audiences.

"It is enough to bring the culture and atmosphere of home to overseas compatriots. Wang Yin stood behind Chen Ziang and knew why he had been silent.

Chen Ziang did not speak.

Wang Yin chuckled: "The Vienna Golden Hall is not as high-end as the Chinese people imagine. It was just a three-year schedule and I had to come this year. She smiled sadly.

Thirty years ago, CCTV broadcast the "Vienna New Year's Concert" for the first time, and the splendid hall and the "tall" symphony orchestra played, so that the Chinese people who had not seen much of the world at that time instantly remembered the name "Golden Hall". Think of this hall as synonymous with the temple of music.

But that's not the case.

The Golden Hall, which has a history of more than 150 years. But in Vienna, where there are many ancient buildings, it is not really an inconspicuous building, and it is not an independent building as the Chinese people imagined, but only one of the many concert halls in the building of the Vienna Society of Friends of Music.

There are six concert halls in the Vienna Friends of Music building: the Brahms Hall, the Wood Hall, the Glass Hall, the Metal Hall, the Stone Hall and the Golden Hall. There is no difference between these six halls.

More than 50 years ago, with the intervention of television stations, the Musikverein invited a world-renowned orchestra from Vienna to give a New Year's concert every year, and began to broadcast it to the world. As a result, this place has gradually become famous.

Thirty years ago, CCTV broadcast the "Vienna New Year Concert" for the first time, and the Golden Hall instantly became a household name in Chinese mainland, and even became a music temple in the hearts of many industry insiders.

But in the minds of Vienna locals, the Musikverein is just one of the many places in the city where you can enjoy music, just like the Zhongshan Concert Hall in Youzhou, except for the number of seats and the location, there is no essential difference.

Even, among the many Baroque buildings in Vienna, it is difficult to find this place without a guide.

The Musikverein is tucked away in a side street, and from the outside, it is impossible to see a theater inside, and it is rare to see billboards in Austria that use the Musikverein as a promotional sign.

On the official website of the Vienna Association of Friends of Music, you can find information on the various performances held in the concert halls under the jurisdiction of the association, and you can also purchase tickets directly.

There are almost no performers or groups from China in these performances.

There are three main ways in which the Musikverein operates: the first is for groups invited by the Vienna Association of Friends of Music to perform in the Musikverein, and the theater pays for the performance, which represents the affirmation of the quality of the performing groups, as is the case with the annual New Year's Concert; the second is for the group that performs in residence under a contract, and the two parties jointly operate and distribute the income according to the agreement; and the third is for the group that rents the concert hall for self-entertainment at its own expense during the period when there is no performance arrangement for the first two.

The Vienna Society of Friends of Music has not invited any Chinese artists or art groups to perform at the Musikverein. In other words, the performances of Chinese groups in the Golden Hall are basically self-paying. To put it more bluntly, as long as you can afford the rent, "singing the Golden Hall" is not a difficult thing to do.

It doesn't cost much to sing the Golden Hall once.

The season is from September to June. During this period, the Vienna Society of Friends of Music invites many high-quality groups to perform in the Musikverein and other concert halls, and the world's top orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berliner Philharmonic, and the Dresden State Symphony Orchestra are often invited.

During the performance season, the procedures for entering the Golden Hall are cumbersome, not only do you need an invitation letter, sometimes the number of performances is hot, and you need to schedule up to 3 years in advance. Of course, during some of the free time of the season, the Golden Hall will also be rented out.

However, outside of this time, the Musikverein becomes the most common, rentable venue.

The rental cost is about 250,000 RMB. After paying the rent, as long as the building is not demolished, you can do anything in it.

The Musikverein can host more than 800 performances a year, but this figure does not represent the status of the Musikverein, only that it is not difficult to rent it.

In Vienna, the city of music, it is true that the locals enjoy music, but their favorite is still traditional Western music such as opera and symphony. Performances from China would have been a novelty to them more than a decade ago, but now that the Golden Hall has become a tourist attraction for Chinese people, it is difficult for foreigners to take the initiative to enter the venue.

According to the operating regulations of the Vienna Association of Friends of Music, all ticket sales for off-season performances are "at the tenant's expense". In addition to the self-entertaining groups such as the senior group and the student group, the rest of the regular groups from China have a basic ticket price of more than ten euros (about 90-150 yuan) for performing in the Golden Hall. Compared with the hundreds of euros in the performance season, the tickets for Chinese groups are cheap, but they still face the dilemma of no one caring, and can only rely on free gifts. There are many ways to give away tickets, such as embassies, Chinese restaurants, travel agencies, ......

In the past two years, Chinese restaurants and hot pot restaurants have taken the initiative to give tickets to people who go to eat, and basically go to the Golden Hall. But later, this kind of performance was so frequent that even Chinese restaurant chefs were afraid of it and didn't want to go to the show, let alone international students.

Traditional Chinese music was still popular in Vienna, but for those born in Austria, who did not have the opportunity to get in touch with Chinese culture, listening to some Chinese folk music has also become a way to learn. But for Austrian locals, what reason do they have to go to a Chinese orchestra?

At first, some Austrian locals will go to see the Chinese performance with a fresh and curious attitude, but they will only choose some people with international reputation. But as Chinese performances in Vienna have gradually become a pan-tourism industry, the level is uneven, and locals are less likely to go to Chinese group performances.

A year ago, the performance of a Chinese folk song diva in the Golden Hall not only brought a 40-member media report group from China, but also caused quite a stir in the local Chinese circle. But even if a high-level person like a folk song queen sings in the Golden Hall, it is inevitable to rely on free tickets to fill the venue. It's just that the way to give away tickets is more high-grade, no longer Chinese restaurants, travel agencies sporadically distributed, but by the Ministry of Culture and many large companies, and even local government agencies directly greeted, not only "the audience must be full" demand, and even "what is the proportion of big noses" There will be a standard.

Viennese people must laugh if they know that the Musikverein symbolizes the supreme hall of honor in the music industry in the hearts of the Chinese, because in the hearts of the locals, the Musikverein is at best a mediocre performance venue. What's even more ridiculous is that the original design structure of the Golden Hall is actually not suitable for singing.

If you really want to give a place to the Musikverein, it is a performance venue, and the most authoritative performance venue in Vienna should be the Vienna State Opera, which is not only one of the four major opera houses in the world, but also a public venue that enjoys state financial allocation, so there is no need to think about renting out space to maintain its operation like the Musikverein.

As a concert hall, the Musikverein is actually very well-designed.

More than 100 years ago, the architect studied the resonance and sound transmission during the construction of the Golden Hall, not only hollowing out a space under the wooden floor of the high platform, but also carefully calculating the division of the upstairs box and the arrangement of the goddess columns on the walls, and using building materials to prevent static electricity on the ceiling and walls. Although the Golden Hall looks like a shoebox, it is acoustically and architecturally designed so that the audience can enjoy the same sound quality no matter where they sit in the hall.

Although the design is exquisite, it is specially designed for symphonic performances, and the speakers in the Musikverein are constructed entirely for classical music and are not suitable for singing.

The Golden Hall is not tall at all, and it is not suitable for singing, so why are Chinese groups and individuals still so keen to sing in the Golden Hall? This goes back to 20 years ago, when the Chinese Chinese Orchestra took the stage in the Golden Hall for the first time. After returning to China, he immediately changed from a "dick silk group" that couldn't pay his salary to a national heavenly group with an appearance fee of 200,000 yuan.

"Going to Vienna's Musikverein is nothing more than wanting to be red. Wang Yin said to Chen Ziang: "The Vienna New Year's Concert is so famous, many performances come to the Vienna Musikverein for fame, and the artistic standards are uneven. Now the reputation of the Golden Hall is stinking, and my schedule three years ago is now like this, and there are few foreign audiences. I can't get on the list at the opera house, I don't have that status. ”

Chen Ziang put his arm around the teacher's shoulders and said with a smile: "Teacher, you wait for me." In the future, I will take you to the most glorious stage in the world. ”