FINE ART Supports the Grand Opening of the 11th Shaanxi Provincial Arts Festival
On the evening of September 15, the opening ceremony of the 11th Shaanxi Provincial Arts Festival was held at the Shangluo Cultural and Arts Centre Grand Theatre. Held every three years, the Shaanxi Provincial Arts Festival took place in southern Shaanxi for the first time this year, running from September 15 to October 14 in Shangluo. Adhering to the purpose of "a grand gathering of arts, a festival for the people," the event featured opening and closing ceremonies, evaluations for the Wenhua Award and the Galaxy Award, exhibitions of outstanding fine arts, calligraphy, and photography, and benefit performances of excellent productions. It presented outstanding works created over the past three years by Shaanxi's professional art troupes and mass art workers, built an important platform for industry exchange and talent cultivation, and helped advance the construction of a strong cultural province.
As drums and gongs sounded and the curtain rose, the Shangluo Flower Drum Opera The Protagonist, produced by the Shangluo Local Opera Research Institute, was brilliantly staged as the opening performance, officially launching the province's highest-level arts event. Adapted from the Mao Dun Literature Prize-winning novel of the same name by Shangluo-born writer Chen Yan, the production uses the national-level intangible cultural heritage Shangluo Flower Drum Opera as its artistic vehicle. It integrates local opera vocal styles, modern stage technology, and live symphony performance, using a local theatrical form to interpret a literary classic by a local author. The opera tells the tumultuous life of Yi Qin'e, a country girl who enters the world of traditional Chinese opera. With a shepherd's song, the innocent girl joins a county opera troupe. Despite cold treatment and criticism, she quietly perseveres. Through her outstanding skills, she rises step by step to the center of the stage, becoming a renowned opera star who tastes both glory and loneliness.
As one of the important activities of the Arts Festival, the final evaluation of the Galaxy Award was held at the Shangluo Theatre from September 7 to 10. Sixty-eight outstanding mass art works competed fiercely across four artistic categories: music, dance, drama, and quyi. With a stronger mass character, richer everyday warmth, and deeper ideological content, they highlighted the new achievements and breakthroughs in Shaanxi's mass art work.
Behind the opening ceremony and the Galaxy Award final evaluation, multiple high-quality professional stage lighting fixtures from FINE ART used precise light and shadow to support this triennial cultural and artistic event. The FINE 1700LH BSWF four-in-one fixture served as the main lighting force for both major events. With outstanding light quality (Ra and R9 both greater than 95), it accurately reproduced the rustic charm of Shangluo Flower Drum Opera costumes and the rich textures of the stage scenery. Its two color wheels with 12 professional color filters, one rotating gobo wheel, one fixed gobo wheel, and dynamic effect wheel interweave to create, as the plot of the opening performance The Protagonist unfolds, the cold years of the county opera troupe and the brilliant glory at the center of the stage. On the Galaxy Award stage, it effortlessly met the diverse lighting needs of music, dance, drama, and quyi performances appearing in turn.
The FINE 550 BSW PLUS three-in-one fixture and the FINE 400CL7 professional LED cyclorama and floor lights were used in the opening ceremony. The FINE 550 BSW PLUS, with its 169mm output lens, creates a robust beam with strong penetration. Its CMY + CTO + independent flowing color wheel interweaves, while 13 color filters plus white, together with rotating and fixed gobo wheels, create diverse visual effects. It vividly renders the intertwining warmth and coldness of the opera troupe years and the glory and loneliness at the center of the stage in The Protagonist, bringing a richly layered visual impact to the opening performance. The FINE 400CL7 continuously outputs white light with color temperatures from 2700K to 10,000K, with Ra and R9 both maintained above 90 and light output exceeding 16,000 lm. With 16-bit high-precision dimming, it builds a well-layered background light curtain with natural transitions for the opening ceremony stage, allowing the local charm of Shangluo Flower Drum Opera to become even richer and more moving across a wide color gamut.
It is understood that during the Arts Festival, 30 productions competing for the Wenhua Award will be staged at four venues in Shangluo, covering multiple categories including traditional opera, drama, dance drama, children's theatre, musical theatre, and folk song opera. Among them, more than 20 productions use FINE ART professional stage lighting fixtures. The Shangluo Cultural and Arts Centre Grand Theatre undertakes the opening and closing ceremonies and several major productions. The Danfeng County Cultural and Arts Centre Grand Theatre, Shangluo Theatre, and Shanyang County Workers' Cultural Palace Grand Theatre will simultaneously stage diverse productions including national orchestral music, symphony, acrobatics drama, and Yu Opera.
A grand gathering of arts, a festival for the people. After the opening ceremony and the Galaxy Award, more outstanding productions will appear at this Arts Festival, and FINE ART will continue to support the 11th Shaanxi Provincial Arts Festival. We look forward to more audiences entering the theatres to feel the warmth of local culture in the melodious vocal styles, touch the pulse of the times in moving stories, and find spiritual resonance in diverse arts.
