Organization

Admin

National Centre for the Performing Arts

Conductor

Lü Jia

Stage director

Li Liuyi

Set designer

Liu Xingiln

Costume designer

Zou You

Lighting designer

Hu Yaohui

Choreographer

Huanxing Zeng

Singer

Yuanming Song

Chen Bailu

Ke Lyuwa

Yuqiang Dai

The Poet

Xue Haoyin

Liu Songhu

Pan Yueting

Wang Yifeng

The Little Thing

Like Xing

Li Shiqing

Su Dawei

Zhuo Zhang

Cui Xi

Zhang Qingqing

Ma Xiao

Hu Si

Liu Yuanmeng

Mrs. Gu

Zhu Fengjia

Wang Fusheng

Sunrise

Beijing

China

NCPA

Opera House

Sunrise Xiang

Public

Pallavi Pawar

Approved

The Sunrise is the seventh Chinese Opera Commission of NCPA. As a classical repertoire of Drama Maestro Cao Yu, the opera is listed among the best works of Cao Yu with its distinct epochal character and profound historic background. It has many different versions in the past decades and has had profound impact in society. 2015 marks the 80th anniversary of publication of The Sunrise, and NCPA works together with China's leading creative team including composer Jin Xiang, playwright Wan Fang, and director Li Liuyi to create this opera to pay tribute to Mr. Cao Yu and his work. The playwright Wan Fang is Cao Yu's daughter, who has a unique understandings of the work, probes profoundly into the tragic theme of the original, to enrich the characters and fully display the social status. The composer Jin Xiang uses fluent and concise music, clear and evident clues and abundant colors which has distinct epochal character; besides, he especially pays attention to the dramatic conflict of music in the creative process, which adds the accuracy to the image.
The Sunrise is a classic work on the theatre stage of China, and it has been performed for decades since 1930s. In the 1980s I have adapted it into movie; together with my father Cao Yu, later I re-adapted it into TV series. Those two experiences make me very familiar with the figures in the drama. I can understand their characters, their feelings, their thoughts, and every one of them is like a mirror, reflecting the bizarre and morbid society. 

Chen Bailu is the soul of The Sunrise, who used to be a na？ve girl and once was ardently loved; falls into corruption step by step after her love dream was broken. However, she has an aloof and pure heart that has not died. No matter how deep she despises her surrounding people, she dwells in them all day long. She sees through the material-oriented and ugly society, but on the other hand is absorbed in the luxury life. The foul smell of life makes her uncomfortable; however she cannot get rid of it. She struggles as well as corrupts, despises as well as enjoys, loves as well as hates. The human nature is always contradictory and complicated. The death of Chen Bailu is kind of an elegy for life

English

歌剧《日出》是国家大剧院的第七部原创中国歌剧。戏剧大师曹禺的经典剧作《日出》以鲜明的时代性和深广的历史内容在曹禺剧作中居于领衔地位。该作几十年来经过多个版本的不断搬演，影响至深。2015年是《日出》创作发表80周年，国家大剧院力邀著名作曲家金湘、编剧万方、导演李六乙等一流主创团队，倾力打造该剧的首部歌剧版本，以此致敬大师、致敬经典。曹禺之女万方，因其对作品的深刻理解和独特感情，深入体察原著的悲剧情愫，对人物情态和社会风貌给予了细致入微的描摹。而作曲家金湘的音乐流畅简洁，线索清晰干净，色彩感丰富，具有鲜明的时代风格，在创作过程中尤其注重加强音乐的戏剧化冲突，准确地塑造人物的音乐形象。

中文

Sunrise by Xiang, From (2015/2015), Directed by Li Liuyi,, Conductor Lü Jia, NCPA, Beijing, China

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