Which is better, acting or music?

It is recommended to study acting as a major, and the employment of musicals seems to be narrower. Personal opinion, for reference only.

Performing major

Training goal: Music performance professionals with systematic professional knowledge and skills can be competent for singing, performance and related theoretical research and teaching after graduation.

Main courses: specialized courses, solfeggio, basic music theory, harmony and acoustics, formalism, introduction to art, music appreciation, folk music, China music history, foreign music history, piano basics.

Employment orientation: literary and art groups, large and medium-sized schools, news media, various training courses, and self-employment.

Music major

Musical drama is a new comprehensive stage art that appeared in the 20th century. It integrates singing, dancing and drama, widely adopts high-tech dance techniques, and constantly pursues the perfect combination of visual effects and auditory effects. At the same time, western musicals have summed up a set of successful market operation methods in the commercial performance experience of 100 years, and created a series of excellent plays suitable for all ages, which made this art form break through the limitations of objective factors such as age and class and was widely loved by the audience.

With the healthy and rapid development of China's economy, the people's demand for culture and entertainment has also undergone diversified changes. Musical, as a new art form, has attracted a fixed and expanding audience with its characteristics of audio-visual, elegance and public appreciation. At the same time, however, the market demand also makes the problem of talent shortage surface, especially in Shanghai, an international metropolis with booming economy and culture, where there is a great demand for musical professionals. It is under the urging of this market that the Music Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music came into being.

Since its establishment, Shangyin Musical Department has invited outstanding musical actors and senior music teaching experts from home and abroad to give lectures, and carried out cooperation projects with foreign music teaching institutions such as teacher-student exchange and student evaluation. In 2003, the Music Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music became an overseas member of the new york-based National Music League, which made the department cooperate more closely with international music professionals and professional groups.

In the teaching process of Shangyin Music Department, give full play to the teaching advantages of music major in the old conservatory of music, and consolidate the foundation of music major and basic performance skills; Seriously absorb the experience of other professional colleges, learn from the successful experience of traditional opera teaching, change the traditional music teaching mode, simplify the curriculum, and attach importance to the cultivation of stage singing and performance ability.

The department pays attention to stage practice as its teaching feature, organizes students to rehearse outstanding plays and participate in social performances all the year round, and actively cooperates with professional art troupes, so that students can learn from each other in the process of cooperating with outstanding actors at home and abroad, practice in learning and learn in practice.

Since its establishment, the department has continuously organized the backbone of teachers and students to try multi-level musical creation and market operation, promoted the continuous optimization of music teaching with the concept of learning from each other's strengths, and trained all-round music professionals with international advanced level for China.

The music department has a four-year undergraduate education system and enrolls students nationwide.

Music department courses:

Specialized courses: vocal music, dance, performance and drama rehearsal.

Professional basic courses: music history, China music history, foreign music history, piano, music theory, solfeggio, duet, chorus and line recitation.

Specialized elective courses: stage lighting, image design, makeup artist, and costume art.

The Music Department has four teaching and research groups:

Vocal teaching and research group, dance teaching and research group, piano art counseling teaching and research group, performance teaching and research group, repertoire teaching and research group.

Where is the way out for musical graduates?

On the occasion of the popularity of the musical Cat in China, embarrassing news came from the Central Academy of Drama, which was the first to offer musical majors. None of the first batch of undergraduates who graduated this year found a corresponding job.

Dilemma: the way out for the first graduates

Chinese opera graduates have always been a hot commodity of all academies and troupes in the country. However, this year, it is getting closer and closer to the handover time of Chinese opera graduates' files, but there are many mixed feelings: 24 graduates of the musical class of the performance department set up by the school for the first time have nowhere to stay. Before the students in the music class were busy with various non-professional employment exams, a professional japanese pop Opera Troupe and Four Seasons Opera Troupe invited three students in the class, but none of them wanted to go. In the end, everyone wanted to stay in China for development.

Dialysis: domestic production is not large.

It is said that musicals are sunrise industries, but no one cares about musical graduates. What is the reason? Professionals believe that there is a market for domestic musicals, but the domestic products have not formed an industrial scale, which is the most important reason why the way out for talents is blocked.

Liu Jian, a professor at Shangyin Musical Department, believes that musicals have been introduced into the domestic performance market and have formed a huge consumer group. However, the final development of musicals in China depends on the lasting large-scale success of China's original works. In recent years, although there are no fewer than 200 exploratory works known as musicals in China, there are almost no successful examples of multiple performances and long-term profits, and they are all banned after several performances. It is not difficult to understand that there is no fixed theater and successful production to maintain the minimum performance, and the domestic music performance education with advanced consciousness has no corresponding outlet and encounters the embarrassment of talent outlet.

Controversy: raising people or looking for projects

Where is the way out for music talents? Beijingers and Shanghainese have different views. In an interview with Beijing media, the head teacher of the Chinese Opera Musical Class believes that there is no special song and dance troupe in China at present, and the musical major has no place to play in the face of major groups. If I had the conditions to start my own music group, it wouldn't be so messy. Shanghainese believe that solving the problem of musical talents with the traditional concept of raising a group of people by one group will only cause greater problems in the future.

Because musicals, after all, are an industry born to meet the market demand, whether on Broadway in new york or in West End of London, there will be a continuous performance only if the project is recognized and the repertoire is successful. In this case, actors will be recruited for the whole society and even the whole world. Musical actors are not the concept of life tenure, but which crew they are admitted to, and they can eat professional food for several years. For example, the cats who came to China this time are called performing groups, but they are recruiting groups derived from the successful versions of Britain and Broadway. When the reporter interviewed Noon, the director of Cats, he knew that even in a crew like Cats, the main actors usually change every two years. Therefore, music performance should be a freelancer, and the decision to join in it means that it will also be affected by market risks.

Try: find a place in the Chinese version.

Does the frustration in the distribution of the first graduates mean that the music performance major is advanced? Where did the crab eater in China's musical play find a place? Qian, general manager of Shanghai Grand Theatre Art Center, revealed that after Phantom of the Opera comes to Shanghai next year, Shanghai will take the lead in auditioning the China version of Phantom of the Opera in Shanghai the year after next. A few days ago, some people from Real Good Group in Britain visited the musical performance major of Shangyin, and recognized the talent training mechanism and student level there, saying that they would make every effort to promote the China premiere of Phantom of the Opera in 2005, in which the actors trained by China would become the performance team; The idea of building the first music theater in Shanghai has also surfaced.

Bill Taylor, CEO of Real Good Group in the UK, told reporters that in Japan and South Korea, local actors first entered the Japanese and Korean versions of classic British and American musicals before growing up. China people need to make musicals in China first, so that the musical actors in China can have a long-term foothold.