Beijing's Xicheng District Unveils Multilingual Theme Song of 'Birthplace of Beijing Opera' to Global Audience

english.beijing.gov.cn
2025-05-26

On May 22, Beijing's Xicheng District released "United in Beijing Opera Across the Five Continents", the multilingual theme song of "Birthplace of Beijing Opera". The song was produced by the "Zhiyun Jingsheng" AI model. This is the world's first multilingual Chinese opera song generated by AIGC's multimodal large-scale model which accurately translated the lyrics into English, French, Spanish and other major languages of the world. The song has been released online in different places around the world at the same time.

The Chinese version of "United in Beijing Opera Across the Five Continents" was officially released in 2018. The making process of the newly released multilingual version, including lyrics translation, rhyme adaptation and synthesis of the foreign-language singing parts, were all completed by "Zhiyun Jingsheng". This AI model has specially developed tools such as a multimodal translation model exclusive to Chinese opera, as well as an emotion recognition model to analyze and adjust the tempo and intonation of foreign-language singing, which ensure the accuracy and emotional expression of the multilingual version and allow audience speaking different languages to fully grasp the artistic meaning conveyed by the song.

(Source: Publicity Department of the CPC Xicheng District Committee)

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