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2024 New Year Season. Russian Musical "Anna Karenina"

Guangzhou Opera House, Opera Hall, Guangzhou, China
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7:30 PM

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Important Info
Type: Musical
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 19:30

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).

Overview

Russian literary classics are brilliantly reproduced, and the magnificent production exquisitely restores the immortal love tragedy.

The musical "Anna Karenina" is adapted from Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece. It is a spectacular, thrilling, emotional work that uses a variety of high technologies to create. The musical captures the subtle psychological and emotional depth of Leo Tolstoy's great novel. The characters in the musical struggle with overwhelming, contentious emotions—love and betrayal, passion and duty, hope and despair. Although nearly a century and a half has passed since the story took place, the events unfolding before the audience are still gripping and moving with their timeless quality.

The story takes place in Russia at the end of the 19th century. The dashing aristocrat Count Alexei Vronsky meets Anna Karenina, the charming young wife of an influential government official. After a brief meeting, the two fell in love with each other. For the two, this relationship was the first time they felt true love, so intense that desperate Anna chose to break the conventions of upper class society, leaving her husband and son in St. Petersburg and fleeing with Vronsky The splendor and luxury of Russian aristocratic society. But the love fairy tale soon ended, and fate tested their relationship.

The musical "Anna Karenina" has been receiving critical acclaim since it hit the stage. This production won the "Hot of the Season" and "Audience Star" awards in Russia's "Best Musical" category in 2016, and was named the most popular show of the year by the Ticketland.ru ticketing company.

The musical "Anna Karenina" attracted thousands of enthusiastic audiences. The production also attracted international attention for its superb performances by Russian actors and its use of cutting-edge technology. "Anna Karenina" is the first musical in Russian history to be authorized to be reproduced overseas. In 2018, the musical was filmed in high-definition and screened around the world, which is also unusual in the history of Russian musicals: an original Russian stage work was screened for the first time.

The script of the musical "Anna Karenina" was written by the famous Russian poet and playwright Yuli King, who has written dozens of popular songs. The music is composed by Roman Ignatiev, and "Anna Karenina" is his third collaboration with the Moscow Operetta. Director Alina Cevek has had many years of success in the field of musicals and operettas. The musical is choreographed by Irina Korneyeva, a ballet master with a wide range of dance interests. Set and lighting design is provided by St. Petersburg theater designers Vyacheslav Okunev and Gleb Filishkinsky, known for their work with the world-famous La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera and the Mullins Famous for its collaboration with the Bolshoi Theater. Makeup and hair were designed by Andrei Drykin, a makeup and hair stylist who has worked with top beauty magazines and fashion shows around the world.

Nine moving screens, metal structures weighing several tons and hundreds of lighting fixtures were combined on stage to create realistic scenes that immersed the audience in the action. A complex system manipulates groups of video screens to continuously change and move, creating an impressive "multimedia puzzle" in a venue filled with lights and music. It draws the audience into the plot of the musical and makes the audience feel like they are right there, from the 19th century opera house to the ice rink, the luxurious palace to the summer countryside. Of course, the biggest feature of the play should be the famous train scene. This element not only runs throughout the play, but also brings the audience an incredibly spectacular and dramatic climax before the finale.

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: Musical
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 19:30
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