After nearly five years of intensive preparation and construction, Wanping theater will officially return at the end of this month. Inspired by Chinese traditional folding fans, the core of Wanping theater is bound to be inseparable from "drama". At the intersection of Zhongshan South 2nd Road and Wanping South Road, this professional opera theater with "stages everywhere and impressive performances at all levels" will build Shanghai into the "capital of Asian Performing Arts" and realize the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, Contribute your own strength. The reconstruction area is expanded by three times, and the hardware equipment is benchmarked to the world-class level The newly upgraded Wanping theater, with a total construction area of 29000 square meters, appears in the shape of classical and elegant Shanghai style jade carvings and opera folding fans. On the basis of no increase in floor area, the use area is three times larger than that of the old theater first built in 1988, and different viewing areas with five floors above the ground and three floors underground are scattered and stacked. This is entirely due to the inspiration drawn from Chinese traditional courtyard architecture. The overall inward opening pattern and Chinese garden style composite space experience complement each other, making the audience change scenery step by step and fall into a light drama dream. In yesterday's Grand Theater stage technology exhibition, suspenders, lifting platforms and lights danced with the music melody. The original mechanical stage jumped flexibly, showing the infinite imagination brought by first-class stage equipment. It is noteworthy that the 25 square grid lifting platforms specially designed for opera performance on the stage are the first in China. "The performance form of opera stage is flexible, and the props are small and exquisite. The strip lifting plate of traditional theater is limited." Xu Feng, chief architect of Wanping theater, introduced, "25 small lifting platforms liberate the stage and give actors more performance space." Enter the fourth floor along the rotating staircase, and you can see the multi-functional Performance Hall called "drama · gathering space". The interior wall of the performance hall adopts adjustable curved glass, just like a glittering glass box, emitting exquisite charm. This 250 square meter space will hold cultural activities such as drama teaching, training lectures, art salon, appreciation and promotion in the future, It has become a place for opera display, popularization and cultural exchange. In addition, the theater also set up 40 Dolby panoramic sound film projection halls to excavate historical materials and cooperate with the drama films shot by the literary and Art Troupe, break through the restrictions of the stage by film means, awaken the ancient traditional culture by the three-dimensional combination of stage art and film, and endow it with new vitality of the times. Diversified cultural experience, leading the integrity and innovation of opera art First class hardware needs to be matched with cultural noumenon to play 1 + 1gt; 2. Function of. The design concept of the theater fully respects the aesthetic characteristics of traditional opera, the usage habits of opera performers and the audience's appreciation habits. For example, the auditorium adopts a horseshoe shaped folding structure, and the linear distance from the last row to the entrance of the stage is 22 meters, so as to take care of the audience's appreciation of the performance details on the stage. A helmet room is specially set up in the backstage area, which takes into account the needs of martial opera actors in the width and height of the corridor. The entrance and exit of props are convenient for trucks to enter and exit and load and unload goods. Even the lights and face washing faucets in the dressing room take into account the special needs of opera actors. This year coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the 10th anniversary of the establishment of Shanghai Opera Art Center. Wanping theater will also open a new chapter in the professional opera stage. The Wanping theater is scheduled to open on June 23. The opera performing artists of plum blossom award, Wenhua award and Magnolia Award will be invited to join hands on the stage. With the theme of "just a century of elegance", there are three sub themes of "echo of the times", "reproduction of classics" and "carrying forward the past and opening up the future", to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China with the high fighting spirit of artists and writers. In the whole opening season, Wanping theater will make full use of the resource advantages of the platform of Shanghai Opera Center to select excellent new works and rearranged classic works, so as to present the latest achievements made by Shanghai Opera in drama creation, talent training and performance market. Secret No. 1 of Shanghai Opera House, Peony Pavilion of Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, roar of the lion and deep love between mountains and seas of Shanghai Yueju Opera House will be invoiced today. (outlook new era)