In the early morning of December 13, the rehearsal hall of the Beijing Opera House sounded a vibrating gong and drum, and a group of spirited opera performers showed their singing and fighting with passion and fullness, especially the large and wonderful martial arts scenes, which made people can't help but applaud. The beijing opera "The Great Knife King V", a new Peking opera written by the Beijing Opera House, has successfully passed the screening of the ringing row and will be grandly staged at the Chang'an Grand Theater on December 18 and 19, striving to create a model model for newly created martial arts.
After watching the sound row of "The Great Knife King V", Zhu Shaoyu, the composer, singing design and famous opera musician of the play, could not hide his excitement, and he said excitedly: "The Beijing Peking Opera House is the largest and most profound national key Peking Opera troupe, and its strength is reflected in all aspects, including martial arts, and there are top martial arts actors in China. But for so many years, the national martial arts have not been revitalized, except for the rehearsal of "Yandang Mountain" in the 1950s, the Peking Opera stage has hardly seen the newly created martial arts for so many years. Therefore, the Beijing Opera House should take the lead, produce martial arts plays, make good plays, and let our gold shine! "In the newly compiled Peking Opera "The Great Knife King V", wusheng, laosheng, wu ugly, wujing, Wudan and other outstanding actors in various professions are brought together, which will show the highest level of martial arts in Beijing Opera House. At the same time, ten students from the China Academy of Performing Arts participated in the creation of the rehearsal, which provided an important platform for the echelon construction of martial arts talents, and also fully embodied the spirit of "one dish" of the Beijing Opera House.
For the creation of "The Great Knife King V", Zhu Shaoyu believes that it has achieved integrity and innovation, conforming to the trend of the times: "In this play, we have kept many traditional roots, and at the same time, there are new innovations. We organically combine traditional Peking Opera martial arts with martial arts and dance to increase skill and difficulty; many weapon props in the play, both traditional and innovative, give people a bright feeling; music design and martial arts scenes are closely coordinated, and specially designed theme songs and female vocal helpers, while for different scenes such as large and small swings, single-to-peer with different intensity orchestral music to set off, truly achieve 'good sound, good look, real kung fu', can keep pace with the modern aesthetics, so that the current audience likes. ”
Zhu Shaoyu especially mentioned that in terms of singing, because martial arts actors often have to do a lot of difficult moves, it is not easy to sing after the performance, "especially the actor has just turned over the heel, even the breath can not breathe, you let him sing at this time, his breathing is difficult to control." So in order to design the singing voice of this play, I thought about it for many days, considered what method to use, and later decided to absorb some local dramas to help. "In "The Great Knife King V", six actresses are specially arranged to "help the cavity", which can not only express some emotions for the main actor, let the main actor slow down after the fierce martial arts, adjust the breath and sing again, and it is also very fresh and good-looking.
Zhu Shaoyu also sent a message to all the actors to demand themselves with "no skills, no amazing, ruthless and immovable, and no drama to disobey people." "This play has used great strength in all aspects, and I hope that when it is premiered, it can win the love of the audience, let everyone see a long-lost martial arts play that is good-looking, good-sounding, and has real kung fu, and at the same time, it can become a reserved play of the Beijing Peking Opera House after continuous polishing and modification."
Zhan Lei, the lead actor of the play and a national first-class actor of the Beijing Peking Opera House, said that he should do his best to continuously improve his skills and improve the stage presentation, so as to contribute to the inheritance and development of Peking Opera martial arts.