Paul Curran, Foto: Henning Høholt

Operasjef Paul Curran har regien når teppet går opp for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts opera Tryllefløyten lørdag 21. november i Beijing.
Premieren finner sted i National Centre for the Performing Arts, eller ”The Egg” som opera- og teaterhuset i Beijing ofte kalles.

Oppsetningen er en samproduksjon mellom Opera Hong Kong, National Centre for the Performing Arts og Den Norske Opera & Ballett. ”En triumf”, skrev South China Morning Post etter premieren i Hong Kong 6. november. Og videre:
”Regissør Paul Currans mesterlige tolkning av verket viser hvorfor han har fått internasjonal anerkjennelse.”

Et internasjonalt team står bak oppsetningen. Scenografien er ved kinesiske Gao Guangjian, kostymene er tegnet av australske Paul Edwards og lysdesignen er ved USA-baserte David Jacques. Solistene, Opera Hong Kong Chorus og Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra ledes av den finske dirigenten Jari Hämäläinen.

Operasjef Paul Curran, administrerende direktør Tom Remlov og ballettsjef Espen Giljane er i Beijing for å overvære premieren og ha samtaler om videre samarbeid.

Mer informasjon om Tryllefløyten: http://www.chncpa.org/n457779/theme/TheMagicFlute/index.htm

BEIJING NATIONAL CENTRE OF PERFORMING ARTS
More informasjon about ”The Egg”: http://www.chncpa.org/n457779/n457899/n458364/index.html

Beijing National Centre of Performing Arts is situated alongside the West Chang’an Avenue at the very heart of downtown Beijing, only a few minutes by feet from The Forbidden City.

The main body of the National Centre for the Performing Arts is a unique a stylish shell of super ellipsoidal steel construction. The surface of this imposing architecture showcases an ingenious material integration o titanium plates and some ultra-white glass sheets, the resultant streamline architectural style of which lends the building a theatrical visual effect reminiscent of a raising curtain.

The shell structure is surrounded by an artificial lake (of 35,500 square meters in land coverage) and a public cultural square consisting of sweeps of flourishing greeneries. The National Centre for the Performing Arts acquires an ineffable appearance comparable to that of a beautifully wrought diamond framed against a deep-blue sea.

The Golden Opera House with a total number of 2,398 seats (including the venue for SRO), is primarily dedicated to the staging of operas, dance dramas, etc. ballet and large theatrical festivals. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/back/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can be slanting, and the up-and- down orchestra pit that can hold 90-musician orchestra. It has a reverberation time lasting for a remarkable 1.6 seconds, which meets the performance requirements of operas and dance dramas.

The Centre has too a Concert Hall with 2,019 Seats and a Theatre with 1,035 seats. In addition a Multi-functional Theatre (MF Theatre) which has 556 seats, like a “Black Box”.

A reportage team from Kulturkompasset A/S visited Beijing National Centre of Performing Arts, before the opening of the OL in 2008. Please enjoy Tomas Bagackas photos from the fantastic Centre: