Inherit and carry forward the culture of Cantonese opera, and compose the magnificent music of the centenary of the founding of the party! On the evening of December 15th, the award ceremony of the 3rd Global Micro Cantonese Opera Competition was grandly staged at the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Art Center. At the same time, today also coincides with the 35th anniversary of the launch of pearl river economic stations, so let us use this cultural festival in the Cantonese opera and opera industry to commemorate this extraordinary day in the history of Chinese broadcasting.
Since its inception in 2018, the Global Micro Cantonese Music Competition has emerged a number of micro-Cantonese opera works full of the atmosphere of the times and reflecting the new achievements of the new era, many works have been widely sung by the public, and the innovative form of integration of traditional Cantonese music and popular music has also been praised by all walks of life. This year, we also received entries from the United States and Vietnam, making the competition truly international.
On April 19 this year, the "Greater Bay Area, Greater Future - Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cantonese Opera Art Exchange Activity and the Launching Ceremony of the Third Global Micro Cantonese Opera Competition" was held in Guangzhou. Dozens of media, including People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, China Central Radio and Television Corporation, Qiushi Magazine, Guangming Daily, China News Service, People's Pictorial of CIPG, and China Youth Daily, widely reported on the exchange activities. After months of solicitation, the organizers received more than 140 entries. On the morning of September 30th, the selection meeting of the composition competition was held at Guangdong Radio and Television Station, and the jury was composed of famous composers and performers and famous pop musicians in the Cantonese opera music industry specially invited by the organizers. Among them, "Yue Yue", "One Bay New Cantonese" and "Pear Garden Butterfly Double Flight" successfully won the gold medal of the competition.
Zeng Shaohua, editor-in-chief of Guangdong Radio and Television Station (center), Zhou Wei, deputy director of Guangdong Radio and Television Station (first from left), and Ni Huiying, vice chairman of Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature (third from right), presented awards to the gold medal winners
Young Peking Opera actor Li Zhengkuan and Guangdong Dance and Drama Vocational College Outstanding Young Teacher Wu Jiahui sang the Gold Award "Moon"
National second-level actor and famous flat-throated singer Lin Tingting sang the gold award "One Bay New Cantonese"
Guo Fengnu, a national first-class actress and a descendant of red art, and Li Weicong, an outstanding young scholar and martial artist, sang the gold medal "Pear Garden Butterfly Double Flight"
The award ceremony pioneered the use of a three-tier stage, through the rotation of the stage, wonderful programs were presented one after another, not only to make the evening more one-stop, but also to bring a high-level audio-visual feast to Cantonese music lovers around the world.
Among the 15 new works of micro-Cantonese songs performed in this public performance, there are "The Moon" and "The Great Tide", which are full of philosophy and full of philosophy, there are also "Pear Garden Butterfly Double Flying" and "Mulan" that sing classic stories, and there are also praises for the scenery of the mountains and rivers of the motherland, the great cause of the Communist Party of China and the century-old Fanghua," "Forge Ahead to Create Glory", "One Bay New Cantonese", "Ode to the Red Boat", "Vitality Yongqingfang", "Singing and Praising Hengqin"... From poverty alleviation to all-round well-off, from the scenic scenery of Lingnan to the lyricism of the times, a micro-Cantonese opera work full of the atmosphere of the times has made us feel the beautiful picture of the motherland's prosperity and strength and the people living and working in peace and contentment under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
At the same time, the performances of famous Cantonese opera artists Xiao Shenying, Ding Fan, He Ping, Guo Fengnu, Zeng Hui, Cui Yumei, Cen Haiyan, Peng Qinghua, Li Weicong, He Fengyi, Liao Qi, Lin Tingting, Bai Qingxian, Sima Xiang, Yulong, Su Linxuan, Liang Xiaoying, Wu Bijun, Tan Qingyi, Huang Wenyi, Huang Xinhui, Lin Caixia, Zhang Yaotian, Wu Jiahui, as well as young Peking Opera actor Li Zhengkuan and well-known pop singer Liang Shan also added brilliant colors to the whole party. As innovative works of cross-border integration of traditional Cantonese music and popular music, these short and exquisite micro-Cantonese songs full of the atmosphere of the times are not only an active exploration of Cantonese opera in the new era, but also will surely attract the attention of the younger generation to traditional culture and art.
Zhao Zemin, director of Pearl River Economic Station (Southern Life Broadcasting), introduced the significance of the activity
Sing Cantonese rhymes, praise Cantonese rhymes! The cultural interconnection of the Greater Bay Area has the same roots and the same origin, and cantonese opera and opera as a link connecting the cultural integration of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have always attracted much attention for their inheritance and development. Today, standing at a new starting point of 35 years and a new coordinate of the times, the pearl river economic taiwan reform will start again! Based on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and facing the world, we held the "Third Global Micro Cantonese Opera Competition", precisely to promote the cultural construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, display the new achievements of Guangdong's reform and opening up, establish a good international image of Guangdong, condense the patriotic feelings of overseas Chinese at home and abroad, and reflect the value of the times of excellent culture.
Don't forget your original intention, forge ahead. In the future, the "Global Micro Cantonese Opera Competition" will continue to create this cultural and creative IP with long-term brand influence and compose a new chapter on the road of inheriting and promoting Cantonese opera culture!
The evening party was broadcast in the form of live broadcast by rong media cloud, and was simultaneously broadcast on pearl river economic station, southern life broadcasting's electrocution news APP, Cantonese listening APP, and Tencent video number, bringing this wonderful cultural festival to netizens around the world, with 506,000 online viewers!