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"It is very rare to be able to see many classic plays and special performances of 'Xu Pai' in three or four days. Whenever the actors close the curtain, they always can't suppress their mood, tears in their eyes... In order to applaud, I didn't have time to take out a napkin to wipe my tears. Ms. Cai, a fan of Jing'an opera, excitedly told reporters.
December 27, 2021
It is Xu Yulan, the founder of Yue opera "Xu Pai"
100th birthday
28 December 2021 to 2 February 2022
"Magnolia Blossom"
Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Yue opera master Xu Yulan
A series of performances kicked off in Shanghai
Disciples and descendants of the "Xu Sect" from all over the country
Gather at the stages of Shencheng
In the form of classic singing and original repertoire performances
Trace the artistic trajectory of Mr. Xu Yulan's life
The season has attracted many fans to watch, and Ms. Cai is one of them. "Since I was a child, I have loved to watch and listen to Yue opera, especially the sound of 'Xu Pai' is sweet and bright, rigid and soft, which has won my heart." Ms. Cai said that during this New Year's Day holiday, she and her friends bought four performances in one go, and in addition to reminiscing and remembering, they enjoyed the artistic charm of "Xu Pai" famous artists around the world.
On the evening of December 28, 2021, Wang Wanna, a young writer and artist of the tenth generation of Shanghai Yue Theatre, took over the mantle of the Grandmaster and took the lead in performing "King of the Northland". On the basis of the complete retention of classic singing segments such as "Weeping Ancestral Temple", this performance has been boldly innovated and re-arranged, with a view to becoming a regular performance of Yue opera.
"In 1947, when Xu Yulan premiered "The Broken Mountains and Rivers of the Country" (current name: "King of the Northland"), she was at a similar age with Wang Wanna, and the two generations of 'Northern Land Kings' met in time and space on the stage of Yue opera on one side, showing the inheritance of the 'Xu Pai' art." Qian Huili, artistic director of the performance and vice president of Shanghai Yue Theatre, said.
On the evening of December 29, 2021, the Yue opera "The Emperor and the Village Girl" was the last big play in which Xu Yulan and Wang Wenjuan personally participated in the creation and rehearsal, when Xu Yulan was more than sixty years old, in the play, one person played a triangle, and the roles were freely converted and played with ease, fully demonstrating the diversity of the artistic charm of the "Xu Pai", and the artistic difficulty was quite high.
The re-rehearsal of the play, specially invited the famous artist He Shuanglin as the director, on the basis of retaining the classics to sort out and compress, focusing on making the plot more rigorous, the characters more three-dimensional, and the rhythm more bright.
It is reported that the theme performance of "Magnolia Blossoms" staged on December 31, 2021 is the highlight of the performance of "Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Yue Opera Grandmaster Xu Yulan". Narrated by the famous actor Song Huaiqiang, Xu Yulan's artistic experience and the process of nurturing, developing, and disseminating the inheritance of "Xu Pai" art from a third-party perspective are narrated.
The performance not only gathered the outstanding "Xu Pai" disciples and descendants of Shangyue, but also gathered many outstanding "Xu Pai" disciples and descendants from all over the country and other famous masters of major genres, while expressing the remembrance and respect for a generation of Yue opera masters, but also showing the endless life and prosperity of the "Xu Pai" art.
"Dream of the Red Chamber", which was staged on January 1 and 2, is a classic of Yue opera created after the founding of new China, and is also one of the opera plays with the most performances and the largest cumulative box office in China. After more than 60 years of testing by the market and the masses, it has won many affirmations and loves, and is now a household name and has been performing for a long time.
Mr. Xu Yulan once said: "The genre itself must flow and change, and only the genre that is constantly flowing and changing will show vitality." ”
The descendants of the Xu Pai said that they will continue to hold high the baton delivered by their predecessors and remember the earnest teachings of the older generation of artists to work the road of inheriting and innovating development of excellent traditional culture, and constantly explore to let Yue opera always reveal its fragrance on the opera stage
Text: Yu Tingyuan Image: Yu Tingqian, the organizer provides the editor: Chen Yuzhen reprinted Please indicate from the official WeChat of Shanghai Jing'an
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