The Chinese opera Zhou Enlai, which chronicles the life story of the former premier, made its debut Sunday evening in Nanjing city, capital of east China’s Jiangsu province. The opera is sponsored by the publicity department of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and created by Jiangsu Provincial Performing Arts Group.
The opera was staged at Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts as part of the Zijin Cultural and Arts Festival.
Composed by Tang Jianping, a professor of the Beijing-based Central Conservatory of Music, the opera featured performances by tenor Wang Chuanyue and soprano Song Yuanming.
The opera depicts the crucial moments in Zhou’s life that turned crisis into opportunities such as the battle of Xiangjiang, the Zunyi Meeting and the Bandung Conference.
Relying on opera as the global language of art, the opera has created the glorious image of Zhou Enlai as the outstanding model of the Chinese Communist Party, singing high praise of his outstanding merits and lofty demeanor in his pursuit of happiness for the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in eulogy of his glorious struggle throughout the lifetime.
Zhou Enlai is a leading figure in the Chinese Communist Party and used to be the premier and foreign minister of the People’s Republic of China before his death in 1976.
(Source:ourjiangsu.com)
