Reviewers say it presents the richness of Dunhuang culture, extolling the glorious working people who generated the Dunhuang culture. The production successfully moves the magnificent Dunhuang frescoes onto the stage through a story of friendship and love. dHvSilk Road Adventure & Private Tours - Silk Road China Tours The 'Silk Road, Flower Rain' was rated as the sample of China natioanl dance drama.Which was created by Gansu Song and Dance Theater with the world-renowned Dunhuang frescoes and the Silk Road as its materials, and peace and friendship as its theme. With its classic productions, exquisite performances and top-notch talents, the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre has won wide acclaim from domestic and international audiences and high praise from all walks of life.DHvSilk Road Adventure & Private Tours - Silk Road China Tours Its footprints have spread across the globe to promote international cultural exchanges and enhance understanding and friendship between Chinese people and people of other countries. The theatre has also been invited to many countries in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Oceania for exchanges and performances.

In recent years, the theatre has produced a number of new masterpieces, including the operas Red River Valley, Xinghai, The Bugle, LIN Huiyin, LIU Sanjie, Yu Tang Chun, Waiting for Your Return, Flames of War on the Daqing Mountain and Veteran ZHANG Fuqing, dance dramas Confucius, When We Were Young, The Chinese Orphan, Zhaojun Goes Beyond the Great Wall as a Bride, LI Bai, The Heroic Chinese People and Tide of Era, song and dance drama Charm of the Seasons, song and dance gala Wishes from Heaven, concert Silk Road Symphony, Chinese orchestral music concert National Treasures and musical A Love of a Thousand Years. The theatre has innovated while adhering to cultural inheritance. Chinese national leaders and many foreign heads of state have watched performances of the theatre and given high praise to them. These productions have become epoch-making masterpieces in the history of national opera and dance drama. At the 1 st China Art Festival, the opera The Wilderness and dance drama Dancing Girl of Tongque Platform were presented as representative works of ChinaвЂ™s opera and dance drama. Over the past half century, the theatre has produced more than 100 operas and dance dramas, including ChinaвЂ™s first opera The White-Haired Girl, first comic-opera Little Erhei's Marriage, first lyrical opera Shang Shi, first dance drama Lotus Lantern, and first classical Han and Tang dance drama Dancing Girl of Tongque Platform.

The theatre boasts a group of famous artists such as GUO Lanying (winner of the title, вЂњPeopleвЂ™s ArtistвЂќ), QIAO Yu, ZHAO Qing, LIU Wenjin, CHEN Ailian, WU Yanze, LIU Shiming, XU Peidong, and SHAN Chong, as well as a large number of outstanding young and middle-aged artists. Its first president was famous composer MA Ke, and its current president is Dr. In March 1964, the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre was officially inaugurated with approval of the State Council. The predecessor of the theatre is Yan'an LU Xun College of Art. It has an opera troupe, a dance drama troupe, a symphony orchestra, a Chinese orchestra, a stage design department and a performance management department.

The China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre is one of the largest state-level theatre with the longest history and widest range of artistic disciplines among the theatres directly under the central government.

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