Original title: 2024 National Grand Theater May Music Festival Public Welfare Performance Enters Mutianyu Great Wall

BEIJING, May 22 (Reporter Gao Kai) The public benefit performance of the 2024 National Grand Theater May Music Festival recently walked into the Great Wall in Mutianyu, Huairou District. The artists of the Opera Performers Team of the National Grand Theater sang a beautiful melody with the beautiful piano accompaniment.

It is understood that the May Music Festival is an important music brand art festival held by the National Grand Theater. In May every year, in addition to the wonderful concert held in the National Grand Theater "One Hospital and Three Sites", artists also go into communities, hospitals, schools, troops, scientific research institutes, characteristic areas, cooperative units, etc. to carry out public benefit performances, so that the general public can get close access to music and feel the charm of art. Since its launch in 2012, the May Music Festival has carried out more than 180 public benefit performances, benefiting more than 30000 audiences and attracting wide attention from all walks of life.

The public benefit performance of May Music Festival in 2024 is unique. From Xiong'an New District in Hebei Province to Daxing and Tongzhou in Beijing, from hospitals and fire brigades to enterprises and the Disabled Persons' Federation, the artists' footprints go deep into different corners of Beijing and Hebei to send artistic blessings to key industries, fields and front-line workers.

The public benefit performance of 2024 National Grand Theater May Music Festival entered Mutianyu Great Wall. Courtesy of National Grand Theater

The concert of opera performers at the National Grand Theater of the Great Wall "Ten Thousand Miles of Spring Wind" in Mutianyu, Huairou District, sang as promised. Accompanied by the beautiful piano sound, the soprano Zhou Xiaolin of the National Grand Theater, the tenor Jin Zhengjian, Wang Chong and Kou Jing, and the baritone Wang Hexiang brought wonderful songs. Classical folk songs such as "The Rising Sun on the Grassland", "A Cup of Good Wine", "In That Far Place", let the audience feel the wonderful national music. "Manjianghong", "Play my beloved Tupipa", "I love you, China", "Give everything to the Party" are powerful, "Spring Wind is Ten Thousand Miles" and "Always Young" make the audience feel full of positive energy under the magnificent momentum of the Great Wall.

It is worth mentioning that among the audience who listened to the concert, there was also an outstanding representative of the Great Wall repair - Mr. Cheng Yongmao, a technical expert of the Great Wall repair at the Cultural Relics Institute of Huairou District. It was precisely because of the hard work and exquisite skills of generations of Great Wall protection and repair team workers that the ancient Great Wall once again showed its grandeur and magnificence.

My Sun, Woman's Change in Verdi's Rigoletto produced by the National Grand Theater, Nobody Sleeps Tonight in Puccini's Turandot, and other songs reproduce the eternal charm of world art classics across time and space, leading the audience to feel the characteristics and atmosphere of multicultural art. The concert ended with the return song "Drinking Song".

It is reported that in the future, the public benefit performance of the May Music Festival will also go to schools and other places.