On August 27th, 1998, the Central Ballet performed Swan Lake, which became the opening performance of Shanghai Grand Theatre. At that time, a market survey was made, and the performance that Shanghai residents most want to see in the Grand Theatre in the future, ballet ranked first.

In fact, there was more than one performance at that time, and the Grand Theatre had a "opening season" of several months, because at the beginning of construction, the relevant parties made the main orientation of "opera, ballet and symphony" for the performances of the Grand Theatre, and famous artists and troupes gathered in the opening season, covering the above three types of performances.

Swan Lake was originally intended to be led by the performance of Shanghai Ballet, but at that time, Swan Lake was not copyrighted, and later the copyrighted Romeo and Juliet participated in the opening season.

Architectural features:

The Shanghai Grand Theatre is designed according to the pavilion shape of China's classical architecture. The roof adopts a white arc with inverted sides and the sky embracing each other, which means that the sky is round and the place is round.

It covers an area of about 2 1 000 square meters, with a total construction area of 70,000 square meters and a total building height of 40 meters, with a total of 10 floors. It is a cultural landmark in Shanghai.

Opera, musical, ballet, symphony, chamber music, drama, traditional opera and other large-scale performances and variety shows have been staged here.

Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-Shanghai grand theatre