FULL A Love Ballad of Kangding (Zhou Xianglin) Hangzhou 2023 Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: A Love Ballad of Kangding
- Composer: Zhou Xianglin
- Libretto: Ding Ying Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Linping Grand Theatre, Hangzhou, China
- Recorded: May 19, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: Zhang Guoyong
- Orchestra: Shanghai Conservatory of Music Orchestra
- Chorus: Shanghai Conservatory of Music Chorus
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Shanghai Conservatory of Music Chorus
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 2 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Music by Zhou Xianglin and Ding Ying,
A Love Ballad of Kangding is an opera in two acts about the love story among the Tibetan tribes in the early 1950s.
It is also about the construction of the highway from Sichuan province to the Tibet autonomous region and Qinghai province in the 1950s
In the 1950s, more than 110,000 highway engineers and workers participated in the construction of the Sichuan-Tibet-Qinghai highway.
Known as the steepest highway in China at that time, the road was built in the mountainous region under difficult conditions.
“Many people lost their lives in the process, and we want to commemorate this chapter in Chinese history, as well as the contribution and sacrifice of the workers,” says Liao.
It is a Shanghai Conservatory of Music commission and production.