International Online Hubei News: On December 27, Hubei Opera and Dance Theater brought the red classic opera "Honghu Red Guard" into Yichang, Hubei Province, the world's hydropower capital, and performed two consecutive performances in Yichang Theater, and high-quality masterpieces appeared on the stage of Huimin performance, which made the audience addicted.
The opera "Honghu Red Guards" performance scene Photography Cheng Lin
In October 1959, "Honghu Red Guards" was first performed in Beijing as a National Day play, and it became a hit. Since the birth of the play, on the basis of retaining the essence of the original version, it has completed three rehearsals in 1976, 1988 and 1999, closely following the aesthetic needs of the audience and using modern stage technology to give the audience a new experience of watching the play. After five generations of actors have inherited and innovated, its condensed plot, streamlined lines, exquisite choreography, especially the familiar song "Honghu Water, Waves And Waves" has been adapted into a magnificent and brilliant chorus, which has shocked generations and formed a communication landscape that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The music of the play adopts the Jingzhou Tianyuan flower drum and the minor tunes of folk circulation with a strong local style in Hubei as the material, drawing on the drama of Western opera in the expression method and the advantages of musical symphony, and has become an opera symphony with strong national personality and magnificent momentum, which vividly presents the magnificent scenes in a specific historical environment and the dedication of heroic figures, which still sounds full of charm to this day.
The opera "Honghu Red Guards" performance scene Photography Cheng Lin
During the day's performance, the applause continued. At the end of the performance, the actors on the stage sang the song "Honghu Water, Waves Hitting the Waves" with the audience, and the afterglow was around the beams.
Wu Rong, an audience member from Yichang Power Supply Company, almost hummed this classic melody to watch the entire performance, "The revolutionary story is vivid and vivid, elegant art is within reach, this is a high-quality performance for the benefit of the people, so wonderful!" It is hoped that more similar artistic masterpieces will enter the lives of the masses. ”
"The classic of "Honghu Red Guards" cannot be described too much. Although the storyline is not unfamiliar, it is still shocking to revisit it again. Audience member Wang Tao said: "I hope that this drama can be performed for more people, especially in primary and secondary schools, so that the heroic stories of revolutionary martyrs will be remembered by the next generation." (Wen Zhang Yongliang, Cheng Lin)