Enjoying a good play around during the Spring Festival holiday in the Year of the Tiger has become the choice of more and more citizens staying in Shanghai. The largest and densest theater group in the country, the big world of performing arts, these days can be described as a good drama.
According to statistics, during this year's Spring Festival holiday, the theater in the Performing Arts World Region launched a total of 52 key performances, including the Asian Building "Star Space" scheduled musical "Lighthouse", "Flame", "Dangerous Game" and talk show performances, "Jazz Quintet" launched by The Lincoln Jazz Center and other performances, with wonderful cultural performances.
Watch Jingkun to The Heavenly Toad
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the Tiantou Yifu Stage at No. 701 Fuzhou Road is very lively. In this theater, which was renovated last year, the Shanghai Peking Opera House and the Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe jointly launched the "Maritime Jingyun Tiggo Spring Festival" New Year performance season.
As one of the core theaters of the big world of performing arts, the restored "Heavenly Toad" integrates traditional opera with modern fashion and innovative technology, and gradually superimposes the functions of performing arts services, cultural leisure, commercial retail and so on, helping the "Centennial Heavenly Toad" burst out of new vitality. Spring Festival stalls, Peking Opera "Dingjun Mountain", "Phoenix Returns the Nest", "Yang Jiajun", Kun opera "Zhan Hua Kui", "Kite Mistake" and other traditional dramas are lined up in the daytime and nighttime slots.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year on February 3, the Peking opera "Dingjun Mountain, Yangpingguan" was performed as the first big play of the 2022 Lunar New Year on the Shanghai Tiantou Yifu Stage, and many famous artists took the stage to add color to the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger. "Dingjun Mountain", also known as "Success in World War I", not only means the opening of the market, but also means that the new year is full of epidemics and good things.
Classic Kun opera, famous characters on stage
Dominate the crowd and be full of joy. Two classic Kun operas, "Zhan Hua Kui" and "Kite Mistake" on the fifth day of the first month of the first month, and "Kite Mistake" on the sixth day of the first month, were staged. "Zhan Hua Kui" is a pair of Xiaosheng and Danjiao, and is also one of the reserved plays of the Shanghai Kun opera troupe. The inner emotions of the characters in the play are complex, and the performance is delicate and expressive. When Performing in Shangkun, new artistic processing was carried out in terms of performance programs and costume styling.
"Zhan Hua Kui" was written by Li Yu, the legendary leader of the Suzhou faction in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the story body originated from the "Selling Oil Lang Monopoly Hua Kui" in the "Awakening world Hengyan" compiled by Feng Menglong, a Suzhou man of the Ming Dynasty, taking the difficulty of Jing Kang in the Northern Song Dynasty as the background of the times, telling the story of the gentle and gentle love between Qin Zhong, the oil seller, and the queen of Hua Kui.
In the play, Li An, a national first-class actor of Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe, played Qin Zhong, a selling oil lang, and the last time Li An performed "Zhan Hua Kui" was seven or eight years ago, and after many years of playing Qin Zhong, the accumulation of life experience and stage experience made him have a deeper understanding and understanding of the role.
Kun opera "Zhan Hua Kui" is a very pyrotechnic drama, which is most suitable for performance in the New Year. Shen Yunli, a national first-class actor who plays "West Lake Flower Queen" Wang Meiniang, said: "The warm ending in the play is also a blessing for everyone in the New Year. Even if there are many tribulations in life, don't give up hope and confidence. I wish you all a new year of peace and joy and success in all things. ”
In this "Beijing-Kunming Heroes Meeting", the proportion of young audiences has increased significantly. Among them, there are many post-95s and post-00s audiences. "Traditional opera is "out of the circle" among young people, and young audiences are gradually becoming the main consumer of opera performances. The reason for this phenomenon may be that young people now like to punch in the Internet, when a theater becomes the exclusive theater of some kinds of drama, it has the conditions to become an Internet celebrity punch card, when young people are attracted to punch the card, they have the opportunity to understand the traditional Chinese opera. Relevant professionals explained.
Haipai funny big collection
In the recently renovated Lyceum Theater, the Year of the Tiger drama is also very exciting. On the afternoon of the fourth and fifth days of the Lunar New Year, the "Dragons and Tigers Leaping in the New Year" jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe and the Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group was performed.
Shanghai Burlesque Troupe not only has a group of outstanding young writers, directors and acting talents, but also has a group of very good young folk musicians, who are young, musical attainments, playing techniques but quite good, their performance makes burlesque more textured, more charming.
In the process of development, a large number of excellent works have emerged, such as "Investigation of Hukou", "Mandarin and Dialect", "Ningbo Musician", etc., and the familiar "Pulling Rickshaw" is one of them. As a reserved program of the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe, "Pulling Rickshaws" has been performed by many outstanding artists. Today, it has been passed down from generation to generation and is still a classic.
As the representative inheritor of Shanghai rap of Shanghai's "Intangible Cultural Heritage" project, Gong Bokang inherits the famous burlesque performance artist "Yuan Yiling", rap has the reputation of "Yuan Gong Pai", won the real biography of Yuan Pai's "Golden Bell Tower", has a sweet voice, is full of breath, spits out clear characters, twists and gimmicks and pays attention to "stability and accuracy". The performance scene was pushed to a climax by Gong Bokang's sound of circling beams, and the audience was stunned.
In 2015, Qian Cheng took young actor Ruan Jikai to perform "Funny Beijing Opera , Chasing Han Xin", which was selected for the CCTV Lantern Party. This pair of masters and apprentices let the people of the whole country see and remember the style of "Shanghai Funny", and when the epidemic occurred in 2020, they worked together to create a rehearsal and stayed up late to record the one-legged play "Wishing the King's Health" to pay tribute to every soldier who went to the front line.
After the performance, many audience members were still unsatisfied, and some audience members said: "As an authentic Shanghainese, I am particularly happy to have such a performance from the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe in the New Year, and the Lyceum Theater is particularly beautifully decorated. This time to hear Teacher Gong Bokang's Shanghai rap, it is really too addictive, completely can not see that he is already an 80-year-old artist, one song is really not enough! Also, Teacher Qian Cheng is more handsome than on TV! ”
Polish the "Big World of Performing Arts" golden signboard and enhance cultural identity
During the Spring Festival, the great world of performing arts has benefited from the vigorous development of the city's performing arts troupes and venues. Not long ago, 10 units such as Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai Concert Hall, and Asia Tower Star Space were the first to obtain the "Performing Arts World" nameplate and certificate. The issuance of the nameplate is the recognition of the identity of the fixed performance venue in the three years since the establishment of the big world brand of performing arts.
25 professional theaters and 46 new performing arts spaces are gathered in the core area of 1.5 square kilometers around Shanghai People's Square, and The World of Performing Arts is the largest and most dense theater group in the country. The Office of the Great World Leading Group for Performing Arts awarded the "Great World of Performing Arts" nameplate to the fixed performance venues, which will further enhance the brand influence and dissemination of the Great World of Performing Arts, aiming to create a core demonstration area of the Asian Performing Arts Capital.
It is reported that in 2022, the "Big World of Performing Arts" will benchmark the highest international standards and the highest level, give full play to its characteristic advantages, further concentrate on gathering first-class talents and institutions, strengthen operation management, strengthen publicity and promotion, better encourage creation, encourage performances, prosper the market, strengthen the industry, serve the audience, and continuously improve the display, influence and competitiveness. At the same time, the reform effect of the exclusiveization of Shanghai theater dramas has initially emerged. Due to the establishment of the performance brand, the popularity of the theater has soared, the audience has become more concentrated, and the proportion of young audiences has also increased, which has further stimulated the enthusiasm of major literary and art academies in Shanghai for artistic creation. Shanghai is moving from the performing arts dock to the source of performing arts.
Reporter / Gao Lei
Edited by / Huang Qianwen
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