Today's winter solstice, 2021 is coming to an end. While lamenting the passage of time, we are also recalling the unforgettable memories brought to us by this year, such as a melodious music, such as a blockbuster movie, such as several wonderful operas. The end of the newly compiled Cantonese opera "The Legend of the White Snake" marks a successful end to the "Shenzhen Famous Opera Masters Exhibition". Five large-scale opera performances took turns to perform, attracting thousands of theater fans to watch live, and the wonderful performances made the fans addicted.
The 9th "Shenzhen Famous Opera Masters Exhibition" is sponsored by Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports and undertaken by Shenzhen Theater. From October to December, the well-known domestic opera theater troupes are invited to stage 5 large-scale opera performances, both traditional repertoire presentations and classic repertoire innovations, and also join the repertoire that pays tribute to contemporary sages, carries forward the patriotic spirit and the feelings of the family and the country, and through the original masterpieces and the wonderful performances of the three generations of actors of the old, middle and young generations, shows the prosperity of the opera art in the new era, carries forward the main melody, and spreads positive energy.
Opening Party Large-scale Chinese Opera Art Show "National Color Tianxiang Mei Yun Fragrance"
Review the five great dramas to show the prosperity of opera
The opening ceremony's large-scale Chinese opera art show "National Color Tianxiang Mei Yun Fragrant" was staged at the Shenzhen Grand Theatre on the evening of October 23, and Ou Kaiming (Cantonese opera), Yang Jun (Huang Mei opera), Weng Guosheng (Jingkun), Wang Zhenyi (Kunqu Opera), Zhang Huan (Peking Opera), Li Xiaoxu (Yue Opera) Six winners of the Chinese drama "Plum Blossom Award" and nearly 100 outstanding opera performers of Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center jointly presented this traditional opera art feast.
On November 6th, the modern Peking Opera "Changing People" (formerly "Peking No War" ) staged at the Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center in Shenzhen was adapted and created by the Shanghai Peking Opera House based on Liu Heping's works, the whole play is magnificent and atmospheric, the epic sense is strong, the stage presents a strong modern rhyme, and it is a masterpiece created by the Shanghai Peking Opera House to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
On December 3, the Kunqu opera "1699 Peach Blossom Fan", performed at the Grand Theater of Shenzhen Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center, was directed by Tian Qinxin, a famous female director of the National Drama Theatre. This performance is one of the key performances of the 9th "Shenzhen Famous Opera Artists Exhibition", and on the night of the performance, in addition to nearly 1,000 audiences, more than 400,000 people watched the live network broadcast. "1699 Peach Blossom Fan" is not only a starting point for the "Kun Fourth Generation", but also the "original intention" of many audiences for Kunqu.
Kun opera "1699 Peach Blossom Fan"
On the evening of December 17, the Grand Theater of Shenzhen Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center was full of sound. The classic Chao opera "Li Jing Ji", starring Zhang Yihuang, Lin Chufa and Wu Yudong, national first-class actors of Guangdong Chao Theatre, was staged here, and the classic melody, moving plot, and superb performances of the actors won the applause and applause of the audience and fans. On the night of the performance, Huang Wuniang was played by Zhang Yihuang, vice president of Guangdong Chao Theatre and winner of the Plum Blossom Award. As a disciple of Yao Xuanqiu, she will take the teacher as an example, adhere to artistic ideals, give play to the advantages of famous teachers, do a good job of "passing on help and leading", inherit and protect China's excellent traditional culture with an attitude of excellence, adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, and create more artistic images that attract, infect and impress people. Lin Chufa, deputy head of the Guangdong Chao Theater Troupe, who played the role of "Chen San" in the play, said that he chose this play to participate in this activity, hoping to use the drama as a medium to promote artistic and cultural exchanges between Shenzhen and Shantou.
Chao opera classic "Li Jing Ji"
On December 18th, the newly edited Cantonese opera "White Snake Legend and Love", starring Zeng Xiaomin, a national first-class actor, Wenhua Performance Award, Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, and winner of the "Protagonist Award" of the Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Award, was staged at the Shenzhen Theater Theater (Hall 1). The play has been innovated and developed on the basis of the traditional repertoire "The Legend of the White Snake", with "love" as the main line running through the whole play, and through ingenious and unique artistic techniques, it gives people a youthful, beautiful, romantic and aesthetic artistic enjoyment. The stage design of the play is concise and three-dimensional, and the platform space is fully used to create different effects, giving people a fresh and aesthetic feeling, which meets the aesthetic needs of modern young people.
Newly edited Cantonese drama "The Legend of the White Snake"
The Shenzhen Theater's "Drama Broadcasting" platform simultaneously broadcast 5 performances of the annual exhibition live, using digital technology to build a new communication channel for opera art, attracting 2.38 million views, of which the opening party of "National Color Tianxiang Mei Yun Fragrance" received 1.01 million clicks.
Opera enters the campus and "plants" traditional culture into the hearts of students
In addition to the classic opera culture blooming on the stage, it also allows students to get a close understanding of the essence of Beijing-Kunming and excellent local opera through entering the campus.
The 2021 Shenzhen Opera into School Activity is a large-scale opera exhibition and performance activity jointly sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, and the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau, and hosted by the Shenzhen Theater. The project carefully selects the classic folding plays and wonderful fragments of outstanding Chinese operas such as Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Yu Opera, Cantonese Opera, Huangmei Opera, etc., and invites outstanding opera actors of various dramas to present themselves wonderfully, perform while explaining, and interacting while demonstrating, continuously improving students' opera artistic literacy, and striving to "plant" Traditional Chinese culture into students' hearts.
From October to December 2021, the project was presented with the wonderful "Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center: Peking Chinese Opera Special Session", "Shanghai Peking Opera Special", "Shenzhen 5 Local Theater Troupes: Opera Gathering", "Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center: Peking Opera Special", "Shenzhen Beijing Opera Theater" and "Shenzhen Local 5 Theaters: Peking Opera Special", "Shenzhen Local 5 Theaters: Opera Collection", "Shenzhen Local 5 Theaters", "Xiqu Collection", "Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center: Peking Opera Special Session", "Shenzhen Local 5 Theaters". Guangdong Cantonese Opera: Cantonese Opera Special Session" and "Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Kun Opera: Kunqu Opera Special" (Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Yu Opera, Cantonese Opera, Huangmei Opera, Yue Opera) performances.
The school drama species not only contains the essence of the country, but also pays attention to the inheritance of local opera, and the activities cover "opera history and costume exhibition", "opera makeup experience", "opera performance" and "opera theater classroom", with opera display, on-site interaction, knowledge explanation and other ways, to further deepen students' understanding of opera, so that traditional arts can constantly inject fresh blood into the new force while infiltrating children's hearts. The Shenzhen Theater's "Drama Broadcasting" platform simultaneously broadcast all the scenes entering the campus, and about 420,000 people watched the performance online and offline.
"Opera Morning Tea"
Share the "morning tea" to appreciate the beauty of opera art
Cantonese people have the habit of drinking morning tea, has "Xiqu Morning Tea" been tried? The 3rd "Xiqu Morning Tea", hosted by Shenzhen Luohu District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau and undertaken by Shenzhen Theatre, held 12 public welfare opera appreciation activities in Quyuan (Hall 2) of Shenzhen Theatre from March to November 2021.
Shenzhen Theater invites famous artists and intangible cultural heritage inheritors of various types of drama to carry out activities such as performance by famous opera artists, explanation of opera knowledge, and on-site teaching of opera. Famous artists live demonstration, the audience to observe the art, the scene atmosphere of each event is very warm, the citizens in a relaxed form to integrate into it, contact opera, watch opera, close to feel the infinite charm of national cultural treasures.
This year's "Xiqu Morning Tea" project activities cover the appreciation of Peking Opera, Kunqu opera, Cantonese opera and other opera genres, invited to Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center, Shanghai Peking Opera House, Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Kun Theater, Shenzhen Cantonese Opera Troupe and other well-known domestic theater groups to participate, Shenzhen Fanghuajing Theater, Shenzhen Luohu District ZhenpengJing Theater and other local theater groups also had wonderful performances in the activity, sharing morning tea with opera fans in the appreciation lecture, taking the audience to appreciate the beauty of opera art.
Crystal News reporter Zhang Yingge/Wen Courtesy of Shenzhen Theater