Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client January 18 news (reporter Wan Xuming correspondent Huang Ying) in the first month to sing a big drama, gongs and drums silk bamboo sound, the taste of the year is strong. From the 18th, the 2022 New Year Huimin Performance Season of the Excellent Drama Program of Hubei Xiqu Art Theater will meet with the citizens in the Year of the Tiger, and the famous characters of the three dramas such as Chu Opera, Han Opera and Huangmei Opera will be staged at the Hubei Xiqu Art Center to let the citizens enjoy the drama.
Stills from the Chu opera "Double Jade Cicada".
On January 18th, the Chu opera "Double Jade Cicada", starring the famous Chu opera performance artist Peng Qinglian, will kick off the season. "Double Jade Cicada" is a representative play of Chu opera, which integrates the vicissitudes of the world and the feeling of life into the singing voice, which is poignant and elegant, and intriguing. Peng Qinglian is the national non-hereditary inheritor of the Chu opera project, who won the 20th Chinese Drama "Plum Blossom Award" and was praised as "Peng Qinglian of Suddenly Charming, Suddenly Sad, and Suddenly Diao". In particular, the performance, as part of the "National Intangible Heritage Representative Bearers Record Project", will be kept by high-definition video records. On January 20, Zhan Chunyao, Chen Changxi and other famous Chu opera artists will relay the Chu opera "Searching for Children", which is a traditional drama about "filial piety" and a classic reserved play of Chu opera, which is called a rare good play by the audience.
Stills from the Chinese opera "Three Niangs And sons".
In addition to the wonderful Chu operas, Huangmei operas "Playing Pig Grass", "Song Jiang Killing Pity", "Catch Sanlang Alive", "Fan Jinzhongju", "Three Forks", "Hundred Flowers Give The Sword", "Three Niangs Godson", "Double Descent", "Rushing Spring Peach", "Cosmic Front" and other wonderful plays will be staged before the Chinese New Year's Eve. From the fifth to the tenth day of the first lunar month, Chu opera, Han opera and Huangmei opera will be staged again in turn.
Stills from the Chu opera "The Book of Searching for Children".
On the 15th day of the first month, the Chuhan Huang Famous Duan Lantern Concert will be the finale of the performance season, which will present a colorful and wonderful opera feast. The concert brought together three generations of opera masters of chu opera, Han opera and Huangmei opera, and different dramas took turns to appear. Zhang Hong, the general director of the concert, introduced that in addition to the diversified opera categories, all the singing segments of the whole concert are the most representative classic excerpts of various dramas, and have a deep mass foundation.
It is reported that the concert began with a Huangmei opera, "Playing Pig Grass", "Tianxian Matching", "Cowherd Weaver Girl", "Female Pony", "Husband and Wife Watching the Lights" and other excerpts are familiar, and the performance lineup brings together many Huangmei opera masters such as "Plum Blossom Award" winners Yang Jun and Cheng Cheng. The Han opera section begins with "Noble Concubine Drunk", and excerpts such as "Beauty Nirvana", "Two King Diagrams", and "Cong Tai Bei" sing the emperor's sorrow and joy, love and death, and the world. In the Chu opera section, "Pearl Tower", "Visiting Friends", "Playing Golden Branches", "Searching for Children", "Wang Baojun" and other excerpts were staged, and Peng Qinglian presented Together with Zhan Chunyao, Chen Changxi, Li Lichao, Zhou Jinyuan and other famous Chu opera artists. The concert will end with a specially created opera chorus "Jiangcheng This Night Is Different Spring".
According to the person in charge of Hubei Xiqu Art Center, this performance season is the first New Year Huimin performance season held after the completion of Hubei Xiqu Art Center, which will bring high-quality excellent traditional opera performances to the audience, so that the audience can experience life in opera and enjoy life in art, so as to start from creating a feast of opera culture and creating a highland of excellent traditional culture.
【Editor: Zhang Ling】
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