Video of Jackie on Sunday at the press conference for Turandot with Zhang Yimou
Showing posts with label turandot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label turandot. Show all posts
Background Information on Turdandot
For the whole Wikipedia article go HERE, but I wanted to quote this section as being of particular interest:
For many years, the Government of the People's Republic of China forbade performance of Turandot because they said it portrayed China and the Chinese unfavorably. [9][10] In the late 1990s they relented, and in September 1998 the opera was performed for eight nights at the Forbidden City, complete with opulent sets and soldiers from the People's Liberation Army as extras. It was an international collaboration, with director Zhang Yimou as choreographer and Zubin Mehta as conductor. The singing roles saw Giovanna Casolla as Princess Turandot, Sergej Larin as Calàf, and Barbara Frittoli as Liù.
As with Madama Butterfly, Puccini strove for a semblance of Asian authenticity (at least to western ears) by using music from the region in question. Up to eight of the themes used in Turandot appear to be based on traditional Chinese music, and the melody of a Chinese song named "Mò Li Hūa (茉莉花)", or "Jasmine", is included as a motif for the princess. [11]
The information about the song "Mò Li Hūa (茉莉花)" is also interesting: Wikipedia,
Video shows scenes from China with Jasmine playing as the background music.
More scenes of China with the song.
More on Jackie's Support of Zhang Yimou Yesterday
At 4:00 p.m. on September 6 around the Bird's Nest, directed by Zhang Yimou version of "Turandot" in Beijing held a press conference before the opening Zhang and Jackie Chan, Song Zuying appearance together, the three staff in hand to enter the venue. Attracted a large number of the media flocked to the scene at once chaotic, after the security only under open-circuit successfully entered the venue.
Conference, Jackie Chan, director Zhang Yimou was invited to film the scene would like to have a chance to co-operation, but Zhang said that more than a dozen years ago Jackie Chan has already expressed his wish to have the opportunity to co-operation has been called, Chang I. "script, the script" ! However, this requirement had not been able to meet Jackie Chan, which Zhang said that "I am sorry Jackie Chan"! This is the Jackie Chan of "Turandot" in support of the director Zhang Yimou are very grateful, and said there must be opportunities for co-operation.
ENT.TOM.COM (Lots of photos on this link as well)
More Photos from the event: ENT.QQ.COM
PHOTO: ENT.TOM.COM
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