FULL SUNRISE (Jin Xiang) Shanghai 2017 Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Sunrise
- Composer: Jin Xiang
- Libretto: Wan Fang after her father Cao Yu's 1936 play of the same name
- Venue & Opera Company: Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai, China
- Recorded: June 13, 2017
- Type: Concert Semi-staged
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: unknown
- Orchestra: Shanghai Conservatory of Music Orchestra
- Chorus: Shanghai Conservatory of Music Chorus
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Yanego Yan Operas
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: vk FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Sunrise (日出) is a 2015 Chinese contemporary classical opera by Jin Xiang to a libretto by Wan Fang after her father Cao Yu’s 1936 play of the same name. Jin Xiang had previously cooperated with Wan Fang to set another of her father’s plays as the opera The Savage Land.
Synopsis
In the 1930s of China’s metropolis lived a popular social butterfly Ms. Chen Bailu, who is young, beautiful, clever and full of charm. A banker named Pan Yueting, who was as old as Chen’s father, is deeply obsessed with Chen and hires her with a large amount of money.
Living in a luxury hotel, Chen kills her time by receiving guests, hosting balls, playing cards and all kinds of entertainment. However, she still feels empty and lonely in the heart.
One day, Chen’s former lover, a poet comes to the hotel to see her. Chen used to love the poet very much and was attracted by his passion and romance, and even went to countryside with him hoping to live a simple life. However, dismayed by the difficulties in the reality, he secretly left Chen and abandoned her. Now he comes back to save their relations and wants to make a new start.
Chen declined the poet because she has seen through the society despite her love for the poet. In the hotel also detained a little poor girl whose parents were died. The girl was sold to a rich villain, she refused to marry him and escaped from his home to Chen’s apartment. Chen shows strong sympathy towards her. She tries to help her for a better life and regards the girls as her daughter. However, the gangdom snatches the girl from Chen and sells her to brothel. The girl hangs herself in despair.
Requested by Chen, the poet looks for the girl everywhere and happened to see her commit suicide finally. Shattered by the scene, he feels pessimistic about the future.
Chen’s patron Mr. Pan Yueting suffers from business downturn and goes bankruptcy after several strives. He cannot afford Chen’s luxury life any longer and left in a haste. Tiring the current corrupt life and finding no way out, Chen ends her young life with a bottle of sleeping pills.