''The Ballad of
heCanal'' or ''The Canal Ballad'' (Chinese: 运河谣) is a 2012 opera by composer
Yin Qing
Yin, Qing () is a Chinese composer. His folk-music based opera ''The Ballad of Canal
''The Ballad of heCanal'' or ''The Canal Ballad'' (Chinese: 运河谣) is a 2012 opera by composer Yin Qing based on Chinese folk music. The libretto was supp ...
based on
Chinese folk music
Music of China refers to the music of the Chinese people, which may be the music of the Han Chinese
The Han Chinese () or Han people (), are an East Asian ethnic group native to China. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, ma ...
. The libretto was supplied by playwrights
Huang Weiruo Huang or Hwang may refer to:
Location
* Huang County, former county in Shandong, China, current Longkou City
* Yellow River, or Huang River, in China
* Huangshan, mountain range in Anhui, China
* Huang (state), state in ancient China.
* Hwang Riv ...
and
Dong Ni
Dong or DONG may refer to:
Places
* Dong Lake, or East Lake, a lake in China
* Dong, Arunachal Pradesh, a village in India
* Dong (administrative division) (동 or 洞), a neighborhood division in Korea
Persons
*Queen Dong (1623–1681), prince ...
and celebrates the story of the
Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal
The Grand Canal, known to the Chinese as the Jing–Hang Grand Canal (, or more commonly, as the「大运河」("Grand Canal")), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the longest canal or artificial river in the world. Starting in Beijing, it passes ...
, the longest canal in the world. The opera premiered at the
National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) (), and colloquially described as The Giant Egg (巨蛋), is an arts centre containing an opera house in the Xicheng District of Beijing, People's Republic of China. Designed by French architect P ...
in 2012. The use of Chinese folk music was a departure from the NCPA's previous
western-influenced Chinese-language operas. NCPA's in house audio visual company released a making of documentary including footage of rehearsals in July 2017.
[运河回响——国家大剧院民族歌剧《运河谣》创排纪实 NCPA 2017]
References
Chinese western-style operas
Operas
2012 operas
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