Located next to the Inner Ring Elevated Road, the Wanping Theatre looks like a slowly unfolding folding fan from the outside, known as the "Shanghai Fan", which is the first New Year's Day ushered in after the new appearance of the theater. Yesterday, Wanping Theater and Shanghai Yue Theater invited a group of special audiences to come to watch the play, they are 61 college students from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Publishing and Printing College who have won the national "scholarship and bursary".
Picture: Wanping Theater invited a group of special audiences Official picture (the same below)
2/3 of these college students entered the theater for the first time, watching the red curtain on the stage slowly rise, feeling the sense of ceremony that belongs to the theater alone, and a little excited. Ma Jiabao from Henan said: "Since childhood, I have been in contact with Yu opera, the high-pitched and sonorous Zizi opera and the beautiful and elegant Yue opera are completely different, the drama of one place corresponds to the temperament of a place, and the delicacy and fashion of Yue opera are very Jiangnan and also very Shanghai." ”
Of course, there are also iron fans hidden among the students, and Zhai Yixin, who is studying for a doctorate at East China University of Science and Technology, especially "Amway" a group of students to feel the profundity of Chinese opera. Zhai Yixin, also from Henan, who studied sociology, chose Shanghai for an important reason - he could often watch plays and watch all kinds of plays. "In school, There are more popularizations in Beijing and Kunming, and I also like it, but I prefer Yue opera." She said: "By chance in junior high school, I saw the performance of Shaoxing Xiaobaihua Chen Fei on the central stage, and I was deeply fascinated by Yue opera. In fact, I have seen "Dream of the Red Chamber" at the Shanghai Yue Theater before, and I have also come after Wanping opened the residency, and I have watched it for the third time today. ”
Pictured: Stills of "Dream of the Red Chamber"
As a qualified "tap water", of course, you must share the best with the people around you. Over the years, Zhai Yixin spontaneously became a promoter of opera, she introduced a variety of good plays to her friends and students, and she also had her own way in popularization: "I can't tell them about genres of drama as soon as I come up, I start with good and interesting passages, either strong musicality, or strong storytelling." Whether it is Peking Opera or Yue Opera, let them get close to Opera first, so that they can slowly understand the charm of different genres of singing. ”
Of course, opera can resonate with young people not only by singing and acting, but also by exquisite opera costumes and grafting text lyrics from classical literature. Wei Xiuxia, who is studying for the first year of graduate school at East China University of Science and Technology, is a lover of Han and Tang Culture, and she advocates the national style from the exquisite costumes of ancient meaning to the opera.
Yesterday, the compact "Yue Opera Tour" began with unlocking the theater, and the general manager of Wanping Theater personally took up the battle as a guide in the summer, explaining to the students the two performance venues and three spaces of the Wanping Theater. The theater conveys the design of "goodness" in the form of "fan", from the appearance to the wall design of the inner space, and the fashion contains Chinese philosophical ideas. 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". Let the students "watch the drama preparedly".
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. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan)