News source: Mandarin Daily/Reported by Li Rongmao in Tainan
News link:https://www.mdnkids.com/news/?Serial_NO=105882

A third-year student from Tainan City's Chongming Chinese Music Class performs music from the Broadway musical "Phantom of the Opera" with traditional instruments. The results of the musical were announced a few days ago. The whole process was pronounced in English and combined with Oriental silk and bamboo music. When the first note came out, it immediately shook the audience. The musical at the intersection of Chinese and Western arts feasted the eyes of the attending parents and also showed the potential of this group of teenagers. Deeply surprised with the energy.

Zhou Boting, the academic director of Chongming Junior High School, said that the school participated in the Ministry of Education's cross-field aesthetic education experimental course plan, targeting the National Music Class of the Three Kingdoms, using three cross-field teaching times per week, with four teachers: Xiao Yadai, Yan Peiying, Guo Yujun and Wu Mindai. In collaborative courses, English teachers lead students to learn the English lyrics of "The Phantom of the Opera". Through script translation exercises, students can better understand the plot and connotation of the musical; performing arts teachers lead students to develop body movements, rehearse dance and walking; visual arts Teachers guide students to make masks, other props, and painted scenery for the masquerade in the play; music teachers lead students to adapt music to perform the soundtrack and overture with silk and bamboo instruments. The combination of Chinese and Western music brings different listening experiences.

The third-year students in the Chinese music class participated in the special production of the musical and spent a semester preparing for the performance of the musical "Phantom of the Opera". Wu Bohan, a student who plays the role of "Phantom", performed the solo performance of the Phantom's soulful performance, which made the audience very heartbroken. As a female actress, Qiu Rouya challenges her physical performance and soprano coloratura skills on stage to show her classical elegance. In the final scene of the masquerade, the students put on masks of their own design and showed elegant dancing to the majestic music. The overall performance was very successful.