If you pass through the intersection of Wanping South Road and Zhongshan South 2nd Road in these two days, you can see the colorful large-scale flower display in the hall through the fan-shaped glass of Wanping Theater, which is the ingenious arrangement of "Shanghai Fan" to welcome the first New Year's Day after the new opening, and the blossoming of wealth indicates the new year blessings of the theater to the audience. At the same time, the resident performance of the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber" also sent a big gift to the fans during the New Year's Day holiday, and the "Xu Pai" famous artists Zheng Guofeng and Huang Yanwu joined in to bring the "New Year limited" performance.
"Sister Lin fell from the sky, like a light cloud just out of the sky." As a long-lasting classic, Xu Wang's version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" can trigger a boom in performances every time. In the early stage of planning the residency performance of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Wanping Theater and Shangyue Theater are looking forward to inviting famous artists from all over the country to the residency performance, so that the style of the genre can be displayed to the audience of the whole country through the resident performance in Shanghai, the opera pier, so that the resident performance can have a stronger attraction and greater appeal. Coinciding with Zheng Guofeng and Huang Yanwu participating in the "Magnolia Blossom" theme performance, the two famous artists Shunyan were invited to participate in the residency performance, and the actors of the Shanghai Yue Theater quickly completed the run-in, and jointly brought this classic play.
At the same time, tonight's performance also welcomed a group of young Generation Z audiences - 61 college students from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, shanghai publishing and printing colleges and universities who received national scholarships and bursaries.
The general manager of Wanping Theater led the team to explain to the students the two performance venues and three spaces of The Wanping Theater, and on the spiral staircase of the upper and lower floors, the students took a group photo. Liang Hongjun, director of Shanghai Yue Theatre, also carefully prepared the "Yue Opera Small Class" before the performance, from the development of Yue opera to the development of Yue opera performances to the rehearsal process of Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber". To enable students to have an overall understanding of the whole performance before the performance. Through the combination of guided tours, performances, and textbooks, the performances and education are combined to enrich the significance of the resident performances.
Since its reopening, in addition to staging good plays, Wanping Theater has also regarded the popularization of art as its own responsibility, and has carried out a series of activities: to create a derivative of the "Red Chamber Elegant Collection" and "Red Chamber Study" for "Dream of the Red Chamber"; to produce the first parent-child drama "Summer Lotus Fish Fun" of "Poetry Theater"; "Famous Guide", "Drama Fan Meeting" and "Pre-performance Guide" and other special activities invited opera masters Shang Changrong, Qian Huili, Shi Yihong, Li Jun, Gao Bowen, and Red Studies Master Zhan Dan to the scene The monthly theater open day has also become a punching point for the public's Internet celebrities.
Author: Wang Xiaoli
Image: Courtesy of the theater
Editor: Xu Yang
Editor-in-Charge: Liu Qing
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