The 1 minute and 20 second trailer received nearly 3.3 million views on the Bilibili website, and the 4K panoramic Cantonese opera movie "White Snake Legend " has gained a huge reputation on the Internet. On October 17th, the stage version of the film,"The Legend of the White Snake," will be staged at the Wanping Theatre, where Zeng Xiaomin, the lead actor and a new generation leader in Cantonese opera art, will also bring Cantonese opera performances with Lingnan characteristics, such as "I Am Zeng Xiaomin — "Drama Say" Symphony Concert, and "Red Turban".
Pictured: "White Snake Legend " Poster Official Picture
"This time, I came with the art of Cantonese opera, hoping to let the audience further understand the beauty of Cantonese opera and understand the love and dedication of Cantonese opera people to Cantonese opera through the Shanghai tour." At today's press conference, Zeng Xiaomin, director of guangdong Cantonese Theatre, came with full sincerity. She sighed that Shanghai is a blessed land for Cantonese opera and also a blessed land for her. Xue Juexian, Ma Shizeng, Bai Jurong, Li Xuefen and other Cantonese opera predecessors have all performed in Shanghai. In 1956, the classic famous drama "Search Academy" of Guangdong Cantonese Theater was recorded at the Shanghai Film Studio, and Zeng Xiaomin himself won the Magnolia Drama Awards Protagonist Award in Shanghai with the Cantonese opera "Youth as a Companion".
Since March, Zeng Xiaomin's national tour of Cantonese opera works has started from the Greater Bay Area and traveled through Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Yinchuan and Wuhan. This time, Zeng Xiaomin took Cantonese opera as a link and walked into Shanghai, the sixth stop of the tour, and together with cantonese opera performance artists from Guangdong Cantonese Opera, participated in the national stage art exhibition season of "Performing Arts World, Art Gathering in Shanghai".
Pictured: Zeng Xiaomin Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photographed
The first performance on the evening of the 15th is "I am Zeng Xiaomin - Drama Say" Symphony Concert, Zeng Xiaomin will join hands with the national first-class conductor Fan Tao, together with the famous Cantonese opera performance artists Ding Fan, Wen Ruqing and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra performers, will present an audiovisual feast to the audience. In the performance, Zeng Xiaomin will perform the classic images she has created on the stage over the years, such as Bai Suzhen, Sister Jiang, Dragon Girl Sanniang, Lady Sin and so on.
On the evening of the 17th, the Cantonese opera "The Legend of the White Snake and Love" was a favorite of Zeng Xiaomin himself, and he won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and the Wenhua Performance Award for his works. "For his sake, I will give up my life and death; for him, I wish the tower would be trapped for another thousand years." Bai Suzhen, played by Zeng Xiaomin, sings well, has both literature and martial arts, spanning Hua Dan, Wu Dan and Qing Yi, around a "love" word, and the action and emotional expression are particularly delicate. In addition to fighting with the crane deer two fairy children with swords, flying alone with a sling to seize the lingzhi, and dazzling "kicking guns", she also used long water sleeves as "weapons" ingenuity. It is not only an extension of the snake-like form, but also a breakthrough in the traditional "shot" performance form, which is a successful innovation in the performance art of opera.
Picture: Cantonese opera "White Snake Legend • Love" official picture
With the sound of the "sighing song" of the red turban, the newly compiled modern Cantonese opera "Red Turban" will be presented to the Shanghai audience on the evening of the 19th. This is another masterpiece of Zeng Xiaomin, who just won the "Repertoire Award", the highest award of the 14th Guangdong Provincial Arts Festival, in 2020, and was selected for the "Outstanding Stage Art Exhibition and Performance Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China". The drama is based in Sanshui, Guangdong Province, telling the old past of Sanshui women Lu Daihao, Ah Yue and Ali sisters in the early 1930s who went to Nanyang to earn a living and support their families, and is a feminist work that can be sung and wept. Zeng Xiaomin himself is a Guangdong Sanshui person, and he has more feelings for the role of Lu Daihao. This time, the 2.0 version was revised and polished in May this year. (Reporter Zhao Yue)