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World premiere of immersive comic opera "Doctor Miracle"

Guangzhou Opera House, Experimental Theater, Guangzhou, China
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Important Info
Type: Opera
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 21:00

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Creators
Composer: Georges Bizet
Overview

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!

Synopsis

The young girl Laurette falls in love with her young idol Silvio. When she is about to go out on a date, she is stopped by her father. After a conflict with her father, Laurette is locked in her room. She is depressed and opens her childhood favorite fairy tale book called "The Magic Doctor" and falls into a dream... In the dream, she meets a fairy who leads the way and Silvio, who has transformed into an officer, sings a song for her. The two fall in love again. However, the county magistrate, the father in the dream, still opposes Laurette's love with the officer, believing that only a doctor can be worthy of his daughter, and stepmother Veronica is also helpless. So Silvio disguises himself as a handyman Romeo and makes a dark dish "poisonous fried eggs", forcing the county magistrate to seek help from a doctor. At this time, Silvio, disguised as a "magic doctor" who "cures all diseases" ...

Venue Info

Guangzhou Opera House - Guangzhou
Location   No.1 Zhujiang West Road, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District

Guangzhou Opera House is a Chinese opera house in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Designed by Zaha Hadid, it opened on the 9th of May in 2010.

In April 2002 an international architectural competition attracted Coop Himmelb(l)au, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid – each producing detailed designs. In November 2002, Zaha Hadid's "double pebble" was announced the winner and the groundbreaking ceremony was held early in 2005.

The theatre has become the biggest performing centre in southern China and is one of the three biggest theatres in the nation alongside Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts and Shanghai's Shanghai Grand Theatre. May 2010 saw American filmmaker Shahar Stroh direct the premiere production of the opera house: Puccini's opera Turandot which had in previous years been a controversial opera in China.

The structure was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. It is conceived as two rocks washed away by the Pearl River. Its freestanding concrete auditorium set within an exposed granite and glass-clad steel frame took over five years to build, and was praised upon opening by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey in The Guardian, who called it "at once highly theatrical and insistently subtle."

Important Info
Type: Opera
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 21:00
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