Climb over a mountain and open the skylight of your dreams; cross a river and wander through the temples of art.
On the evening of December 11, more than 100 teenagers from Zhuhai Huafa Central Performing Theatre joined hands to perform the children's musical "Peter and the Wolf".
From the selection of members to the training rehearsal to the final performance, nearly a year of training and polishing, sweat and tears, strength and determination, the teenagers of the three places finally brought an unforgettable audio-visual feast to the audience with full spirit and high posture.
The reporter went behind the scenes to visit different groups in the performance, unveiled the complete veil of the musical, witnessed the seeds of their dreams, and took root in the hot land of Hengqin.
Group portraits
Climbing mountains and mountains just to chase dreams
"Standing up, sometimes it's lazy, but sometimes it's full of curiosity." 9-year-old Tan Yuxin excitedly told reporters about her role, in "Peter and the Wolf" she played the duckling, with the bird, cat and Peter worked together to catch the wolf.
On the stage, Yu Xin performed intently, expression, dance steps, posture, full of a cute little duck, the opening, she and the bird are responsible for the plot preparation, arousing the audience's interest is particularly important, "during the rehearsal process, the teacher will let us practice some key actions, which is very helpful for the performance of the character, I feel particularly happy, and learned new knowledge", Yu Xin said, in addition to the role movements, the teacher will also teach them dance, lines, sight singing ear training, these are the basic skills of musical theater actors, " I think the biggest takeaway is to be able to put them together and put on a great musical. ”
Yu Xin is not in a hurry, her thinking is clear, and her childish voice reveals a kind of maturity beyond that of children of the same age, from entering the Malanshan China original musical theater base, participating in the rehearsal and performance of "Peter and the Wolf", she has not returned home for almost a year, eating and living in the base, "because her hometown is particularly far from Changsha, it may be inconvenient", she said.
Yu Xin's home is in the countryside of Yuanling County, Huaihua, Hunan, it takes more than 4 hours to drive from Changsha to Huaihua, and it takes more than 4 hours to drive, and I have to drive a mountain road, "To Huaihua, I saw that the map showed that her home was only 60 kilometers, I didn't expect 60 kilometers I drove for 4 hours, I couldn't drive in, the sparse mountain road, I just flipped over the mountain to her house." Peng Yifeng, general manager of Malanshan China's original musical theater base and Nanguo News Agency, said. She is the producer of the "Peter and the Wolf" musical, and from the beginning, they set their sights on the students in the mountains of Hunan, "it is difficult to tilt high-quality art education resources to gifted children like them, and we hope that they also have the opportunity for art education," Peng Yifeng said, so she took Yuxin to Changsha.
After leaving Yuanling for so long, when talking about whether or not he missed home, Yu Xin said: "There is a little bit, but I still can't go back, because I think changsha can make me study better, and the conditions at home are not very good."
Unlike Yu Xin, the same 9-year-old Cai Fengcheng shook his head cutely, he played the role of Peter in the play, cut the watermelon head, jumped around during rehearsals, full of energy, he said that the most impressive scene of the whole performance, that is, when the wolf was released, at the end of the play, Peter decided to put the wolf back into nature. Perhaps it is this simple emotion that makes the real Fengcheng and other children in the crew can mingle together, including the "wolf" who is 4 years older than Fengcheng.
"Sometimes when I'm particularly annoyed, he will keep making me laugh and play cute in front of you," said Zhang Zihan, who plays the wolf. Zi Han is the big brother in this group of children, he has been in junior high school, he is sometimes slightly lonely in the pile of children, ask him if he is tired, he replied concisely and concisely, "It is good to get used to it."
"Yiyang, Changsha County, Wangcheng County, Lei Feng's hometown..." Peng Yifeng introduced to reporters the birthplaces of 26 young actors in "Peter and the Wolf", some place names that have never been heard of, most of them are between the ages of 6 and 12, leaving their hometown early and entering the base for training, which is a hobby and a dream.
"Growing up wanted to be a famous artist." Zhang Zihan said.
"I want to grow up and become a musical theater actor." Cai Fengcheng said.
"Growing up wanted to be a professional musical theater actor." Tan Yuxin said.
"Did you know this road is hard?"
"I think it might be difficult, and I want to study hard now and wait until the knowledge is full."
practice
Cycles repeatedly search for the true rhyme of art
A brilliant musical, not only rely on the actors on the stage, but also on the musicians and choruses sitting on the dance floor under the stage, who use their voices to advance the plot and create ups and downs.
After the end of the musical, the reporter saw a sweaty Huang Zhengjun in the backstage of the performance, and the high-intensity performance of Fangcai did not slow him down, he was a student of Zhuhai No. 1 Middle School, served as a horn voice in the symphony orchestra, and has studied horn for 7 or 8 years, with a certain foundation in music theory. The horn is the maker of dreams and sadness, and his trumpet is heard when the ducklings and birds are happily playing in the forest.
"There are thick stacks of scores, which is a very big challenge for us, especially some of the places where we play solos." Huang Zhengjun said that they have been preparing for this for more than 4 months, during which they have experienced countless exercises, one note corresponds to a pitch, listening to the sound of argument, practice can make skill, so they are also very much looking forward to this performance, which is a new interpretation of a classic work.
"A little nervous", Shi Xiaolu, who performed in the mainland for the first time, finally breathed a sigh of relief after the performance, she is a member of the primary school choir of Macau Pei Cheng Secondary School, studying vocal music for about 6 years, for today's singing, she said in authentic Cantonese "Ok". When her school recruited the chorus of Peter and the Wolf by self-enrollment, she was fortunate to be selected by the teacher to form a choir with 22 other students.
One minute on stage, ten years offstage, in the artistic performers can finally see the real chapter. Many mature musical theater actors at home and abroad have begun to practice since childhood, and the actors of the famous musical "Cats" have undergone a long period of professional training, and they have performed professionally and comprehensively in every skill such as dance, acting, and cover singing, but at the same time, talent is also very important.
"Musical theater must first have music, to have a sense of music, to be able to sing, this is the most basic, so when selecting, this group of children must have this talent, after having talent, we will be for the sound, stage, shape, table, every day will arrange courses for systematic professional training." Jiang Hui, the director and choreographer of "Peter and the Wolf", said that the young actors who first came into contact with the play found that most of them were zero foundation, and the training process could be described as painful, "It is difficult to do the same alone, it is difficult to sing well, it is difficult to dance well, it is difficult to dance well, it is difficult to act well, not to mention to concentrate on training so much." ”
Jiang Hui continued, fortunately, after more than a year of repeated practice, the awareness of musical art performance has been established in the minds of children, which is also one of the most successful places in the whole play, "When I see them performing on stage, my eyes are moist, one is happy, and the other is really not easy." ”
"Are there one or two good seedlings in this group of children?"
"I don't say, see for yourself. There will definitely be! Peng Yifeng said.
Highlights
The three places jointly composed the piano and Macao movements
The string ensemble is in place, the symphony orchestra is in place, the choir is in place, the actors are in place, the music, props, the lights, the curtain is up!
"Grandpa said it was dangerous outside, there were big bad wolves outside, and I wanted to have wings and fly freely like a bird..." Little Peter's natural voice sounded in the concert hall.
The symphony, the gripping storyline, and the exquisite performance skills of the actors, the teenagers of Xiangguang, Guangdong and Macao used their tacit cooperation with each other to win the applause and amazement of the audience.
Huang Yujie, acting director of the People's Livelihood Affairs Bureau of Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone, said that on September 17 this year, the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone was officially established, marking that Guangdong-Macao cooperation has entered a new stage. The performance of "Peter and the Wolf" is a brand new attempt to cooperate and exchange between young people and children in Hunan Province, Guangdong and Macao, which is of great significance for Macao children to pay attention to and understand the mainland of the motherland, and is a useful exploration to strengthen cultural exchanges between young people in Guangdong and Macao. At the same time, Huang Yujie also called on the whole society to care for and pay attention to left-behind children.
Guo Jingwen, vice principal of Macau Peizheng Secondary School, said that this performance is a good start, and our students will have more opportunities to have more in-depth exchanges and cooperation with students in Zhuhai or Hunan in the future.
Peng Yifeng thanked the cooperation zone for the valuable performance opportunities, hoping that with this platform, more children in the countryside can realize their stage dreams, "We hope that they can go further, we try to send them to the highest art hall, this is our goal." ”
It is reported that the performance was accompanied by the Macao Peizheng Secondary School Choir and the Hengqin Yixiao Choir, the Zhuhai No. 1 Middle Pipe Symphony Orchestra and the Zhuhai Huafa Youth Orchestra as the accompaniment, and 16 left-behind children from the Hunan Provincial Acrobatic Troupe were specially invited to join the performance.
Niu Jing, deputy director of the Executive Committee of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone, Min Yuntong, executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal CPC Committee, Deng Wenjuan, director of the Literature and Art Department of the Propaganda Department of the Changsha Municipal CPC Committee, and Li Jiaxin, assistant to the Propaganda and Culture Department of the Macao Central Liaison Office, watched the performance on the spot.
[Written by Wu Guanlin, a reporter from Nanfang Daily
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
【Musical Introduction】
Peter and the Wolf is a symphonic fairy tale written by soviet composer Prokofiev for children and young children, completed in the spring of 1936. As one of Prokofiev's masterpieces, "Peter and the Wolf" has become a regular performance of major symphony orchestras around the world since its release.
The story tells that the young Peter, with the help of his good friend Bird and cat, wrestles with the wolf and finally captures the wolf. The biggest highlight of the whole play is the subversive re-creation of the original work in the closing paragraph, which is a touching adaptation that sublimates the connotation of the work, so that the work "Peter and the Wolf" has a new interpretation of modern humanistic thinking and values.
【Source: Southern Plus Client】
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