Where is the hottest cultural event in the May Day holiday city? Restarting the opera "Marco Polo" at Guangzhou Grand Theatre is a good choice. This opera, with its unique artistic charm, takes the audience into a stage world full of emotions and imagination. Every detail is carefully polished, and every note contains profound emotions. It is worth walking into the theater to enjoy this holiday. Appreciating opera itself is also an art form that requires us to mobilize various senses such as visual and auditory senses to experience. Excellent opera works are usually reflected in various aspects such as plot, music, performance, and stage effects. Let's talk about watching it below - Point 1: Four to five hundred people are waiting for you to perform a grand play. Firstly, the plot is the soul of opera. In 2024, coinciding with the 700th anniversary of the death of Italian traveler Marco Polo, the opera "Marco Polo" returned to rehearsal with great acclaim. From May 3rd to 4th, the story of Marco Polo was "restarted" on the stage of Guangzhou Grand Theatre, allowing the audience to cross mountains and rivers, touch history, pay tribute to and inherit the spirit of pioneers, and continue the friendship between China and Italy. It is reported that the rehearsal director Shi Jingfu is a director of the Central Opera House. She was awarded the "Outstanding Director Award" and "Outstanding Performance Award" by the Ministry of Culture that year, and has extensive experience in directing opera. Screenwriter Wei Jin is one of the most influential poets in contemporary Chinese poetry. Under his pen, opera, as a Western art form, has become full of poetry and meaningful meaning with the blessing of Chinese. When the female protagonist Chuan Yun introduced the capital city of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an, to Marco Polo, she sang, "There are thousands of styles in my East, with countless stars and moons/light rain condensing in the sky/swaying in the clear wind/floating in the dark fragrance/sparse shadows and flying cranes"... Audiences who pursue taste in writing will not be disappointed. This year's rehearsal, known as version 4.0, ensured maturity and popularity, and also invited popular and powerful singers such as Wang Kai, Zhou Fan, Wang Yunpeng, Liu Ying, Tian Haojiang, Feng Guodong, Dai Chen, Zhai Xiaohan, Yang Shuai, and Si Lenghe, who are renowned both at home and abroad. Led by international conductor newcomer Qian Junping, it teamed up with the Macau Orchestra, the Central Conservatory of Music Chorus, and the South China University of Technology Youth Dance Troupe. Nearly 200 actors, along with front and back stage personnel, reunited to recreate this magnificent epic masterpiece. Point two, the background color is the cultural confidence of a group of people. Screenwriter Wei Jin introduced that the image of Marco Polo in the 4.0 version is more diverse than the simple traveler in our stereotypical impression. In the drama, he is treated as a witness to the exchange and collision of Chinese and Western civilizations. He has a strong sense of exoticism and is very eager for Eastern civilization. He also meets a strange woman who represents Eastern aesthetics, witnessing the Chinese spirit and loyalty that are completely different from Western culture. His story with Chuanyun is not only about the encounter, meeting, and love between a young man and a young woman, but in fact, it is the process of the encounter, mutual understanding, and communication and integration of two civilizations. In the drama, the audience will see many Eastern elements, which are not deliberately arranged, but can be seen everywhere. Throughout the production process, it reflects our cultural confidence. For example, Wen Tianxiang has a few aria lyrics: I pray