Stills of the performance (Courtesy of the organizer)
Fuzhou, December 12 news (reporter Luo Xiaoying correspondent Chen Zhixiang) twelve pipa in unison "Princess Farewell", four treasures percussion welcome, wave drum appeared on the Nanyin stage... On December 12, the Nanyin "Kuo Kuo Zhen", choreographed and performed by the Quanzhou Nanyin Heritage Center, was performed in the Opera Hall of the Straits Culture and Arts Center.
Nanyin "Broad and Broad Truth" is composed of three chapters: "Farewell to the Yuan Palace", "Encounter with thorn tong city" and "Breaking the Waves and Riding the Wind", based on the roots of Quanzhou Nanyin, pioneering and innovating, and striving to climb the new peak of Nanyin art. Starring National First-class actor Zhuang Lifen, the superb performing arts expand nanyin's innovative space and stage performance tension.
The biggest highlight of the whole drama is based on the real historical story, with the art of Nanyin telling the story of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to implement the national policy of "Yanwu Xiuwen" and promote exchanges between the East and the West, and endure the pain of letting his most beloved adopted daughter Princess Kuo Kuozhen marry Persia. At the same time, it also reproduces the prosperous scene of the Song and Yuan Quanzhou Maritime Silk Road, travels through ancient and modern times, and presents a singable and weeping "Sea Silk" legend for the majority of string friends.
At the scene of the performance, the reporter saw that there was no shortage of young people watching the performance, "I have seen the premiere of Nanyin's "Broad and Broad Truth" in November, and today is the second brush, I think it is very worthwhile, because it innovates a lot of content, there are many elements that attract me, especially like the character of Princess Broad Broad Truth, through this drama also let me better understand the history, understand the world heritage Quanzhou. Ms. Wu, who is engaged in data collection, told reporters.
It is understood that in order to attract more young people to like Nanyin, this time in the art form of Nanyin, to tell the story of Princess Kuokuozhen, based on the roots of Quanzhou Nanyin, further pioneering and innovating, in the traditional Nanyin interpretation and stage presentation have made a lot of exploration.
Behind the successful performance of Nanyin's "Broad and Broad Truth", it brings together the painstaking efforts of the domestic first-class creative team and nearly 40 outstanding cast members of Quanzhou South Music Troupe. The play is directed by An Fengying, the national first-class director of the China Commentary Theatre, composed by Wu Shi'an, the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Nanyin and vice chairman of the Fujian Qu Artists Association, and Han Jiang, a famous theater and dance producer and stage visual artist, as the stage and lighting designer.
The scene of the performance (Photo by Luo Xiaoying, a reporter of the Central Broadcasting Network)
With the successful application of Quanzhou, the relevant person in charge of quanzhou Nanyin Heritage Center said that he hopes that through this work, more people will understand quanzhou, reproduce the style of this ancient "first port in the East", and further publicize the Quanzhou Haisi culture, show the beauty of Quanzhou's intangible cultural heritage at home and abroad, and then attract more Nanyin lovers at home and abroad to better carry forward and inherit Nanyin.
In the future, Nanyin's "Broad and Broad Truth" will be further polished and optimized so that it can be performed as a public welfare drama for normal performance, and will also go out of Quanzhou to perform at home and abroad, and it is planned to be specially invited by the Shanghai China Grand Theatre to perform the special performance of "Broad And Broad Truth" in Shanghai and to Beijing in March 2022.