A contemporary adaptation of Bizet's lost masterpiece. Enjoy a high-quality opera holiday.
The "Doctor Miracle" is the first opera work composed by Georges Bizet when he was 18 years old. The story dates back to 1856, when the Buffet Theater in Paris held a competition to find new composers and works. Georges Bizet, who was only 18 years old, won the first prize in the competition. As Bizet's enlightenment work, we can find the shadows of well-known works such as Carmen and The Pearl Fishers in The Wonder Doctor. 186 years later, in 2024, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, this one-act comic opera in the style of mid-nineteenth century France will be premiered in an "immersive" way. This is also the first "immersive" adaptation of The Wonder Doctor in the world since its birth.
2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. The immersive comic opera "Doctor Miracle" has not only been included in the performance project of "Spring of Sino-French Culture Specially Presented for the 60th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and France", but also specially invited the French Embassy in China, the French Higher Education Agency and the official partner of the French Cultural Center, the Alliance Française Guangzhou, to provide French guidance for the performance, striving to present a high-quality, authentic French comic opera to the audience.
Multiple hearing senses
The immersive comic opera series breaks through the three-part tructure for the first time and combines four voices, the classic ombination in opera - soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone, and integrates children's chorus, making traditional opera more concise and light without losing the core charm of opera. This family comedy written by Georges Bizet is reshaped from a modern and fairy-tale perspective.
Adhering to the opera tradition of a hundred years ago, no mplification equipment will be turned on during the performance, and the purest opera texture will be performed directly. The audience will feel like they are back in the most primitive theater and the earliest opera world. When modern composer Marco Iannelli tried to rearrange the huge orchestra in the original work with different instruments, he optimized the harmony while retaining the melody, lines and harmony, and reduced the band to a smart 8-person chamber band, breaking the tradition and giving the audience a brand new auditory presentation.
And we discovered many well-known nursery rhymes in Bizet's operas. The children's ethereal singing voices conveyed familiar melodies, and those familiar songs actually came from Bizet's operas!