The new version of the Peking Opera "Tang Guifei" is being performed at the New Wanping Theater on the 18th and 19th, which is also the second performance of the play after the remastered version in 2019 at the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
👉 Showing the style of "Haipai Guifei", Shi Yihong, Li Jun' Anping Xi Middle Road and other famous artists led the 2021 new version of Peking Opera "Tang Guifei" debuted
Wanping Theatre is a professional opera performance stage that can meet the technical requirements of this modified version, so here, the play will be brilliant again.
Before the performance, Yang Guifei's actor, Mei Pai Da Yi Shi Yihong, was interviewed and talked about the front and back of the stage of "Hai Pai Guifei".
Talking about the topic of Peking Opera in the current year of 2021, Shi Yihong said that he was very happy. Why?
I entered the drama school at the age of 10, and my first feeling about the stage was the school's "yurt theater". There is also a tea party after the performance on Sunday morning, the fans will order a cup of tea to call a snack, the actors will start the performance, and the impression is that all the grandparents sitting under the stage are grandparents. At that time, I wondered, when will Peking Opera be able to be seen by more audiences of all ages? In the 1990s, we were in full bloom, and it was a good time, but it was even more lost, because often when the curtain was opened, the whole audience was 20% or 30%.
The audience is not only small but also almost a "white-haired theater", and the difficulties faced by traditional opera at that time impressed Shi Yihong, but all this is quietly changing, and she has never given up on this stage.
I have also been insisting, feeling that after 2005, the computer network is more and more developed, new theaters are constantly being built, our performance experience is also richer, and I find that the audience has begun to return, began to be younger, there are many youthful faces in the seat, we are really happy for this gratifying change!
In particular, it is found that many of the fans are photography enthusiasts, after watching the performance, they will post photos in their blogs, and the channels of Peking Opera dissemination are more, and they also leave a lot of beautiful pictures for the actors, so more audiences began to understand Peking Opera and pay attention to the actors because of the Network. Peking opera actors also write blogs to express their ideas and record their careers, and our communication with the audience extends from the theater to life, feeling closer.
I grew up acting for my grandparents, and now there are a lot of children in the theater who follow their young parents to see the play, and the audience that can come to see us in every era is what we cherish very much, and now I feel really the best, realizing my ideal when I first learned to play - there are audiences of all ages.
At present, the "national tide" returns, a song "Ode to the Pear Blossom" makes many people who are not Peking Opera audiences also like and sing, the way of Peking Opera fans far exceeds the space of the theater, and the number of people who can see the grand masterpiece of "Tang Guifei" is limited, but there are many more people who have listened to this theme song and watched the stunning Yang Guifei video.
When asked how Shi Yihong successfully opened a new dimension in the promotion of Peking Opera, she said that first of all, Peking Opera itself has a historical background, and secondly, it must be "beautiful" to attract people's attention.
"Tang Guifei" is composed of four copies of "Taizhen Waibiography" created by Mr. Mei Lanfang in his early thirties, which was nearly a hundred years ago, when this play can definitely be regarded as a magnificent production, extremely popular; the singing voice is very musical and innovative, which can be called the peak of Mei Pai's singing voice.
Twenty years ago, Teacher Mei Baojiu led the distillation of the four copies of "Taizhen Wai Biao" into a play, and he was able to get the assistance of many forces and gather talents from various professions to do this, and only then did he have "Tang Guifei". This play fully embodies "inheritance and innovation", and these four words are the pursuit that Peking Opera practitioners have never given up, so they will create excellent works and attract generations of people.
Speaking of "beauty", the most important thing is the appearance of the children on the stage. It is said that "Peking Opera is the art of "children", and a child must represent beauty on the stage, plus singing and playing, and also have a sense of artistic aesthetics. The audience is here to appreciate these beauties.
Speaking of Shi Yihong's stage image, no matter who she plays, the first word that the audience will say after watching it is "beauty". "Tang Guifei" plays Yang Yuhuan, a beautiful woman throughout the ages, who has always been the most ranked beauty in China's history and in the minds of Chinese. Actors who can play Yang Yuhuan and can be remembered by the majority of audiences are also very beautiful no matter what kind of art category they are in. Shi Yihong's appearance is moist and beautiful, the posture is flexible and ethereal, in line with the current aesthetic, a look is the image of Yang Guifei, on the new media platform, whether it is stills, videos, or plays, rehearsals, it is very eye-catching.
Shi Yihong said:
"Beauty, the audience will come, not beautiful, it will not come."
Beautiful, there are innate conditions; beauty, is cultivated by the day after tomorrow. Peking opera actors are not flat beauties who can only concave shapes, but creators of beauty who can carry sets on their bodies and use their hands and eyes to bring one side of the space to life.
One minute on stage, ten years offstage, this sentence is not wrong at all!
In order to integrate with the times and meet the appreciation needs of various audiences, the 2019 version of "Tang Guifei" used a lot of lights and LED screens in the stage, and also redesigned the costumes, makeup, and headdresses, which caused a warm response at the time. After five years of renovation and upgrading, when the Wanping Theater was renovated and reopened, it received calls and messages from all audiences, hoping to watch the complete "Tang Guifei" again on the stage at home, which is a requirement from the market.
Two years ago, "Tang Guifei" was performed five times in a row at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and the grandeur is still in front of us; now, because of the stage equipment of the modern grand theater, Xinwanping has the ability to make this elaborate drama brilliant again.
Source: Thoughtful