The past is more than a thousand years, and red beans show new branches. On the morning of January 6th, the 34th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards Best Opera Film Award "Nanyue Palace Words" and Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Heritage and Development Media Sharing Meeting were held in Guangzhou International Media Port. The sharing session focused on the creation and production of the Cantonese opera film "Nanyue Palace Words" and the inheritance and innovative development of Cantonese opera, and Cantonese opera performance artists such as Ni Huiying, Ou Kaiming, Su Chunmei, Wu Feifan, Li Jiayi, as well as Ma Chongjie, director of the Cantonese opera film "Nanyue Palace Words", producer Xu Bin, Meng Jing, director of Guangzhou Red Line Women's Art Center, and Lian Xingcun, president of Guangzhou Academy of Literature and Art Creation, made theme sharing.
"Nanyue Palace Words" further proves the thickness and depth of Cantonese opera culture
The 34th Golden Rooster Awards for Chinese Cinema was announced a few days ago, and "Nanyue Palace Words", jointly produced by Guangzhou Radio and Television Station and Guangzhou Cantonese Theatre, won the Best Opera Film Award. Xu Bin, director of the film and television channel of Guangzhou Radio and Television Station and producer of "Nanyue Palace Words", said, "From the 31st "Legendary Yuanlun Wenshu", the 32nd "White Snake Legend and Love", the 33rd "Wedding on the Execution Ground" has been nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Opera Film, to the 34th "Nanyue Palace Words" won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Opera Film, which further proves the thickness and depth of Cantonese opera culture. ”
Xu Bin
"Participating in the filming of this work is also a cultural journey for me." Xu Bin reviewed the process of creating "Nanyue Palace Words", saying, "The Lingnan culture centered on Guangzhou displayed in "Nanyue Palace Words" is a typical representative of our country's unified, pluralistic, peaceful, development and multi-ethnic integration culture. The film's award is also a full affirmation of Lingnan culture. ”
Ma Chongjie video connection
Ma Chongjie, director of "Nanyue Palace Words", expressed his congratulations and joy at winning the Golden Rooster Award for Best Opera Film through video. Ma Chong's outstanding pear garden family has been deeply involved in opera films for decades, and last year's Cantonese opera film "Wedding on the Execution Ground", which was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award, was also directed by him.
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Cantonese opera performance artist, general manager of Guangzhou Cantonese Theatre, artistic director of "Nanyue Palace Words" and male protagonist Au Kai Ming, who is filming the TV series "Lush" in Hengdian, said in the video link, "This film condenses the efforts of many people, can stand out from the Golden Rooster Award competition films, highlights the extraordinary charm of the innovative development of Cantonese opera, an intangible cultural heritage, and also reflects the continuous growth of local literary and artistic forces." I look forward to the audience coming into the theater to support this film. ”
Li Jiayi
Li Jiayi, a young actress of Guangzhou Cantonese Opera and the heroine of "Nanyue Palace Words", shared her first "electrocution". She said that what she felt most deeply during the filming process was that the difference between Cantonese opera stage performance and film performance was larger, "The interpretation on the stage pays more attention to the tension of stylization and performance rhythm, because the stage performance is far away from the audience; and when shooting Cantonese opera movies, it is more important to grasp the sense of proportion, pay more attention to portraying the character's heart, and quickly enter the character state." She said.
The third volume of cantonese opera performing arts is expected to be published in March
Cantonese opera is known as the "southern red bean", it has always grown in the urban fabric, is a vivid and vivid cultural face of Guangzhou. People from all walks of life also focus on guarding the cultural roots and inheriting Cantonese opera well and developing it well.
Chen Zehua
Chen Zehua, a first-level researcher of guangzhou municipal bureau of culture, radio, television and tourism, shared the work of Guangzhou in revitalizing and developing Cantonese opera. He said that in order to promote the inheritance and development of Cantonese opera, the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism has formulated a medium- and long-term plan, that is, to build talent training projects, inheritance and innovation projects, boutique creation projects, market cultivation projects, video projects, venue construction projects, and courtyard group development projects. He revealed that in the future, through new forms of expression such as "Cantonese opera + movie", "literature and art + technology" and "stage + Internet", we will actively promote the filming of 6 Cantonese opera films such as "Diao Man Princess And Horse", "Search Academy", "Huang Feihu Anti-Five Passes", "Mandarin Duck Sword", "Hua Zhi Ji" and "Sanjia Lane".
Ni Huiying
The revitalization of Cantonese opera is a systematic project. Ni Huiying, a famous Cantonese opera performance artist and winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, shared the compilation of the Cantonese Opera Performing Arts Encyclopedia. Sponsored by the Publicity Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, the compilation project of the Cantonese Opera Performing Arts was officially launched in September 2017, with the active participation of colleagues in the Cantonese opera industry, and has successfully published "Doing Scrolls" and "Singing Scrolls", and will soon complete the publication of "Music Volumes" in March this year. We conducted a recording demonstration to revitalize the heritage from the source, hoping to further consolidate the fundamentals of the development and research of Cantonese opera. ”
"The Complete Book of Cantonese Opera Performing Arts" uses modern scientific and technological means to systematically and informatively record the whole picture of Cantonese opera performing arts in the form of pictures, texts, sounds and images, and records the most distinctive performing arts of Cantonese opera for more than a hundred years. This marks a new level in the inheritance and promotion of excellent Lingnan cultural work, and will make a significant contribution to the continuation of the lifeblood of Cantonese opera and even Chinese opera. Ni Huiying said. Cantonese opera is the first of the 348 drama genres in China to systematically sort out artistic performances. Wang Kui, director of the China Opera Research Institute, hailed the project as a "cultural feat to inherit the living artistic heritage." Ni Huiying said, "The Encyclopedia will continue to develop, and there will be generations of Cantonese opera people to enrich it. We keep the roots and the source, and people who want to learn Cantonese opera after 500 years can find the source here. She revealed that the Cantonese Opera Performing Arts Encyclopedia was recently successfully selected into the "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan of the State Press and Publication Administration.
The documentary film "Her Name is Red Line Girl" is expected to be released this year
MengJing
"The Cantonese opera "Nanyue Palace Words" is a masterpiece of the creation of the female teacher of the Red Line before she died. In 2009, when Teacher Hong participated in the director's exposition meeting of "Nanyue Palace Words", he fully affirmed the quality of this script. Meng Jing, director of the Red Line Women's Art Center, said that as an immortal monument in the history of Cantonese opera, the artistic life of the Red Line Women has continued to glow with the vitality of the times along with the inheritance and development of cantonese opera red art. Meng Jing believes that it is necessary to excavate new resources in the rescue and finishing, further inherit and study the art of Cantonese opera through video, publication, etc., and enrich the heritage of Cantonese opera. She revealed that the documentary film "Her Name is Red Line Girl" is expected to be officially released in theaters this year.
Lianxing Village
Lian Xingcun, president of the Guangzhou Academy of Literature and Art Creation, shared the protection of Cantonese opera. He said that from 2016 to 2021, the Municipal Institute of Culture and Research cooperated with the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera House to rearrange ancient plays such as "The Inquisitor" and "Ma Fulong Selling Arrows" to reproduce the traditional Cantonese opera industry art. Since the implementation of the Guangzhou Drama Creation Incubation Plan in 2012, 20 Cantonese opera plays have been successfully incubated and put on the stage, and a group of young screenwriters have been trained.
Su Chunmei
"The first opera musical originated from a collaboration between me and the Hong Kong film industry. On the basis of retaining the traditional charm of Cantonese opera, we combined the techniques of film, opera and stage drama to create "A Generation of Tianjiao". I found it easier for young people to use this new stage format to interpret Cantonese opera. Su Chunmei, a Cantonese opera performance artist and winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, shared her experience in creating opera musicals. In 2019, in order to promote the creation of fine literary and artistic works in Guangzhou, the Xiqu Musical Theater Creation Base and Chunmei Studio were established. She revealed that after "Lady Sin", Chunmei Studio and Guangzhou Cantonese Theatre joined forces in 2021 to create the opera musical "Mazu", which will meet the audience in the first half of this year.
Wu Feifan
Wu Feifan, a young Cantonese opera performance artist and winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, specifically pointed out the need to cultivate young audiences. Since 2016, she has led a team of professional teachers to carry out the activity of "Opera entering the campus and students entering the theater", training more than 3,000 students in the past five years, and holding nearly 200 lectures and Cantonese opera promotion performances. "We have seen that the seeds of Cantonese opera art have grown in the hearts of groups of children, and many of them will become the confidants and audiences of Cantonese opera."
At the end of the event, Su Chunmei, Wu Feifan and Li Jiayi sang the Cantonese opera "Red Bean Most Lovesick" and "Ode to Lychee" and the opera musical "Lady Sin" on the spot, allowing the on-site media and the audience watching the online live broadcast to once again appreciate the charm of Cantonese opera.
Stills from "Words of the South Vietnamese Palace"
Text/Guangzhou Daily, All-media reporter: Zhang Suqin
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