Clinking glasses for a taste is not like asking for advice. The business card you put in your pocket may not match today’s number the next day.
Qin Jian knew that most of the people who came over were aimed at Baudelaire and Vaughan, and he happened to be here too.
In just a few glasses of wine, the people who had just gathered around seemed to have finished checking in, and then dispersed one after another in an interesting manner.
Today is indeed not just for pianists, but there are also Steinway artists like Tali Baker coming.
The only ones left at this time are the big names present today, Baudelaire, the top leader of German Steinway, Vaughn, the president of DG Records, Schiff, the editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Savier, the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Berlin Merited Artist
Taribek, the legendary Leipzig baritone Dalena, the event director of this competition, Ms. Helen, and the general manager of the Berlin State Opera, Cassandra.
Baudelaire and Vaughn cordially introduced Qin Jian to everyone again. Everyone could see that these two people were deliberately recommending Qin Jian, and they all spoke with eloquent words.
When facing big shots, Qin Jian's demeanor and behavior were still OK.
Everyone's topic quickly turned to the theme of this cocktail party.
Speaking of opera, Cassandra, the general manager of Berlin's Staatskapelle, was even more enthusiastic about "Ada and Kira" than Vaughn.
The competition's repertoire is no longer a secret. Excerpts from the 18 teams' participating plays have long been announced online.
Original new plays appear in every competition, this is nothing new.
The reason why Ada and Kira has attracted the attention of insiders is that judging from the story content, melody, harmony rhythm and band orchestration of just a few scenes online, the creator has completely gone against the development of new operas.
People can see the shadow of the eighteenth-century opera in it.
This shadow can be seen on any sheet of music from Handel's 'Aria' or Mozart's 'Idomeneo'.
Faced with various professional problems, Qin Jian was really grateful for the major he filled in at that time. Li Sanli's professor finally came in handy for other purposes at this moment.
When competition director Helen discussed the creative form of the opera, Qin Jian humbly expressed his views: "If we define the meaning of form as a way of integrating details within the framework of the overall concept, then the opera is fundamentally
It’s not a form, it’s just a method of construction.”
A group of people around him, including Vaughn, were shocked after hearing this.
It is not this idea that shocks everyone; it has been debated since the eighteenth century.
What shocked everyone was that Qin Jian made such a speech on such an occasion and on such a topic, which was tantamount to speaking to the whole world from the center of world opera——
'Well, I wrote Yadah and Kira.'
Vaughan's uncertain question finally got an answer from the real owner.
Cassandra sincerely hoped that Qin Jian could talk about the details of the play, and several people around her also wanted to hear this section with great interest.
Qin Jian smiled and nodded, and glanced at Ning Qianxia not far away from the corner of his eye.
"Wait a moment everyone."
He turned around and everyone looked in the direction where he raised his hand.
Four young girls of different colors were communicating there.
Ning Qianxia's attention has always been on Qin Jian, so she naturally saw Qin Jian's actions immediately.
Seeing Qin Jian waving, she turned around and nodded apologetically, then walked towards Qin Jian.
Kelly Liu kept up with her pace.
The actions of the two women also attracted the attention of the surrounding people, and the eyes scattered around the hall silently paid attention to this side.
Ning Qianxia came to Qin Jian's side with a smile, revealing her white teeth.
"This is Miss Ning Qianxia, a new generation coloratura soprano singer from China, and the gold medal winner of the 16th Hawaii Overseas Vocal Competition."
Qin Jian said, and everyone's approving eyes focused on Ning Qianxia's face. For a young singer, this award is of great significance.
Ning Qianxia bowed slightly to several people, and Qin Jian continued to introduce: "She will play the role of Kira in this competition performance."
"Wow!" Cassandra's interest was suddenly lifted.
"At the same time, she is also the choir director of Figaro Spring and is responsible for daily rehearsals of the play. If you have any questions about the play, you can ask her. She knows the script better than me."
As he said this, Qin Jian signaled Paul to do some translation work, and then left the scene by peeing.
Before leaving, she gave Ning Qianxia a cheering look.
...
Qin Jian left the crowd and quickly looked for the toilet. He didn't mean to ignore Liu Kaili, he really had eaten too many oysters.
Ten minutes later, he walked out of the bathroom calmly.
Looking again, Kelly Liu's figure was no longer there.
Seeing that Ning Qianxia was chatting animatedly with everyone, Qin Jian sighed softly and found a corner to drink alone.
With Paul translating and Chen Tangjie accompanying him, he had nothing to worry about.
As he said, Ning Qianxia did research the details of the play more thoroughly than he did.
His work is more in the orchestra and music processing, while the opera stage part relies entirely on Ning Qianxia.
Looking back on the more than a year he had known Ning Qianxia, he admired this girl from the bottom of his heart who had a strong passion for singing.
Different from Duan Ran's happy-go-lucky love, in his opinion, Ning Qianxia's love has a strong desire to perform.
This is a rare talent for a person who is close to the stage. Only such a person can perform the performance more thoroughly.
And the audience enjoys the latter stage more.
Qin Jian could see that Ning Qianxia was ambitious.
He admitted that the other party also had the strength to match this ambition. He could almost conclude now that if this competition can achieve appropriate success, then Ning Qianxia will definitely have a place on the European opera stage in three to five years.
But what he was not sure about was whether the other party would still be the vice president of Figaro Spring at that time.
From a profit perspective, he honestly hoped that Ning Qianxia could stay in Figaro.
He has already decided to build Figaro into a first-class professional orchestra in the future, so he needs helpers in the future, truly capable helpers.
Not only Ning Qianxia, but also club elders such as Chen Tangjie, Zheng Feng, Li Shasha, and even Fatty are all those he wants to win over in the future.
Time will fly by.
Qin Jian had a premonition.
As he was shaking the goblet, Vaughn came to his side.
"I want this script." Vaughn said bluntly.
"Make a price." Qin Jian was even more blunt.
The two looked at each other and smiled, starting a new round of bargaining.
...
On the way back in the evening, the four of them were in a good mood.
Paul sent the three of them back to the hotel, agreed with Qin Jian on the pick-up time for the bus tomorrow morning, and then drove away.
As soon as Qin Jian returned to the room, there was a knock on the door behind him.
He opened the door and said, "Come in."
He motioned for the other party to enter the house, turned around and turned on the light under the entrance hall.