In 2021, Beijing launched 2415 performance plays and held 20597 commercial performances, with a total audience of 5.135 million and a box office revenue of about 783 million yuan (RMB, the same below). Compared with the same period last year, the number of performances increased by 195%, and the number of performances has returned to 90% before the epidemic (2019). Confidence in Beijing’s performance market has gradually recovered, showing a trend of sustained growth and steady recovery.
The above contents were mentioned in the 2021 Beijing performance market review released by Beijing Municipal Bureau of culture and tourism on the 3rd.
quyi, talk show and drama lead the performance market
The review pointed out that in 2021, the repeated fluctuations of the epidemic still affected the performance market. However, under the condition of normalized epidemic prevention and control, the confidence of Beijing performance market has gradually recovered, showing a trend of sustained growth and steady recovery.
Throughout the year, Beijing launched 2415 performances and held 20597 commercial performances, with a total audience of 5.135 million and a box office revenue of about 783 million yuan. Compared with the same period last year, the number of performances increased by 195%, and the number of performances has returned to 90% before the epidemic (2019). Among all types of performances, quyi, talk show and drama performances accounted for the most, accounting for 63.6%. Among them, drama has the highest box office revenue, about 240 million yuan.
theme works appear in Beijing
In 2021, the main theme performance attracted much attention, and red became the most distinctive background of the capital’s literary and artistic stage. From April to July last year, the “exhibition of excellent stage art works celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China” was carried out nationwide in the form of a combination of theater performance and online broadcasting, of which 50 plays appeared intensively in Beijing.
The Peking Opera Li Dazhao, Xu Yunfeng, the drama Xiangshan night, Shangganling, the Opera Long March, the party’s daughter, the musical in the distance, Xinhua NEWSBOY, stenographer, the dance drama five stars out of the East, Xian Xinghai and other main melody works produced by Beijing theatrical troupes and performing arts institutions are both popular and popular, Create a good atmosphere for celebrating the party’s Centennial birthday. Dance drama “Tianlu” and Pingju “rainbow in Tibet” won the best play award and play innovation award of the sixth national minority literature and art conference respectively.
large scale performance promotes the inheritance and development of opera art
In 2021, Beijing Municipal Bureau of culture and tourism set up a national performance platform to promote the inheritance and development of opera art. The 9th China Peking Opera Art Festival, the largest and highest level Peking opera art event in China, was held to showcase nearly 40 major operas from 41 performing groups in 27 provinces, autonomous regions and cities across the country, with more than 90 million people attending Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) performances.
The fifth Chinese Opera Culture Week held in October highlighted the characteristics of the activity of “opera in the garden and garden in the opera”. 23 literary and artistic groups in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei carried out more than 1000 performances, lectures, interactions and other activities, with more than 86 million full media views on the whole network.
In addition, in 2021, the newly compiled Peking Opera “the fifth king of the big knife”, “Madame city”, Kunqu Opera “national style”, “Lin Huiyin”, Beijing Opera “everywhere”, Hebei Bangzi “Huaya canal” and Pingju “blessing” were also launched, which made the audience appreciate the unique charm of traditional culture.
form breakthrough and innovation “popular” works frequently appear
“Innovation” has become a high-frequency word on the Beijing stage in 2021. Last year, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and the Beijing Opera Theater jointly launched the large-scale Beijing Opera Symphony suite “the capital Grand Canal”, which realized the integration and innovation of Chinese and Western cultures through the combination of typical tunes and symphonies of different genres of Beijing opera. The dance Poetry Drama “only this green” funded by Beijing culture and art foundation is based on the famous painting “thousands of miles of rivers and mountains” handed down by Wang Ximeng, a court painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. It reproduces the elegant charm of the aesthetics of the great Song Dynasty on the stage and makes the cultural relics “live”. The central Chinese drama “dream like a dream” has been polished continuously and has become a classic in the performance market. It has been rearranged by the director and moved onto the stage again, becoming the “hot money” of the annual performance.
While traditional stage art is trying to make innovations and breakthroughs, emerging performance forms such as immersion and interaction are also emerging one after another.
Happy Mahua’s immersive drama “heart stealing dinner” sets interactive scenes according to the plot changes, and the audience consciously replaces the plot roles, which greatly enriches the viewing experience. The star drama village created an immersive performance “painted skin 2677”, which opened a new journey of “post immersion”. In addition, with the popularity of talk show variety shows on the Internet, offline talk show performances are also growing, with about 4000 performances in more than 70 theaters, forming a Sanlitun industrial sports talk show gathering area.
cross border cooperation to expand the integration form of culture, business and tourism
In 2021, a number of performance institutions in Beijing actively explored “performing arts +” to integrate the development of other business forms in a cross-border way, and constantly explore the diversity of the integrated development of culture, business and tourism.
The national dialect theatre and Bosideng cooperated to hold the press conference of “China’s world leading down jacket”, and interpreted the brand’s 45 year development process in the form of stage drama through the concept of “drama show”; The national dialect theatre cooperates with China Central Television to launch a large-scale cultural program “China in classics”, which integrates drama into TV creation in the form of “drama + film and television + cultural interview”; Iqiyi launched a variety show “new life in drama”, which presents a panoramic view of the creative process in front of and behind the stage in the form of a reality show; Happy Mahua has established stage one music and drama bar, which breaks the traditional performance boundary and brings a new experience to the audience in the form of “drama + bar”. (end)
(China News Network)
