"May a hundred years be like this night, may a hundred years of people not be old" "Then for you like a beautiful flower, like a year of water", "I and your good husband and wife are not shallow"... Accompanied by the classic melody, the Lantern Opera of the Year of the Tiger, which is known as "almost sweeping away the famous artists in Shanghai", has finally appeared in the eagerness of everyone. At 19:00 on the 15th of the first month, "Fuhu Spring Festival Lantern Festival 2022 Happy City Lantern Opera Evening" will be broadcast on the City Channel of Shanghai Radio and Television Station, providing a joyful and festive lantern opera feast for citizens and friends.
"Old taste" classic flow "old feelings"
The gathering of famous artists and stars is the biggest feature of the Lantern Festival of Shanghai Radio and Television Station City Channel in previous years. This year's party also gathered the artists of major genres of the Beijing-Kunming-Yue-Shanghai-Huaihuai one-legged drama to help.
"The moon is on the willow tip, and the man is about after dusk". Love is an important theme of the Lantern Festival. The classic combination of contemporary Yue opera performance artists Qian Huili and Wang Zhiping brings "Chunxiang Chuan • Love Song", a love story that takes place under the bright moon and the Lantern Reunion Night. Kunqu opera "Peony Pavilion", Yue opera "Liang Zhu", Huai opera "White Snake Legend", Shanghai opera "Gifting Jade Rabbit", Peking Opera "Phoenix Returns nest", "This is Love" performed by young masters of various dramas vividly expresses people's beautiful expectations for love throughout the ages through classic singing segments. Peking opera masters Lan Tian and Yang Yang's "Sitting Palace", and "Little Wild" Shu Yue's Shanghai opera "Xu A Increases the Lamp", the clouds and water are dazzling.
At the end of 2021, a "Love Myth" made people full of curiosity about Haipai culture. What exactly is the most authentic "taste of Shanghai"? Contemporary Shanghai opera performance artist Mao Shanyu accompanies you in your dream of Shanghai with a song "Ballad of Shanghai". Wu Nong's soft voice is touching, and the cheongsam is intoxicating. In recent years, Mao Shanyu is committed to promoting and popularizing Shanghai dialect, traditional opera and urban culture in the form of Shanghai opera and Shanghai song, and she frankly said that she hopes that with the help of the screen of the Shanghai Radio and Television Station City Channel, more people will hear and more people will sing this beautiful "Shanghai Ballad", so that the "voice of Shanghai" will spread farther and longer.
"New National Wind" Breaks the Circle to Attract "New Youth"
Famous masters and classic melodies make people feel the deep heritage of traditional opera and the charm that will never fade. The secret of "charm staying forever" lies in "keeping right and innovating". Kunqu Prince Zhang Jun's "Water Mill "New" Cavity" highlights a "new" word, and in the shallow chant, the 600-year-old water mill tune flows out of the melody of the times. The "new national style" brought by a group of young people was even more surprising and amazing, exclaiming: "The original opera can be played like this" "The original tradition can be like this 'hi'". Through the self-media platform "bursting red" of "Chi Ling", the combination of ancient style and modern rhyme of "A Cut of Plum", Shanghainese version of "Slow Sound"... Today's young opera workers are no longer satisfied with the stage presentation, and under the creative collision with self-media, the Internet, and the metaverse, the "new national style" has increasingly become the object of pursuit by the Z generation youth.
At the party, the post-95 opera director Li Zheng's "Wu Jia Po", which has countless fans, appeared again. The guitar bass replaces the gong and drum huqin, and the T-shirt jacket replaces the python robe and water sleeves, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of tradition show the vigorous vitality of traditional opera.
Just like Li Zhengkuan's positioning of himself: to build a bridge between the pop culture circle and the traditional opera circle. With the efforts of a group of young opera artists running away from their dreams, the future of traditional opera can be expected.
"Reunion Night" laughs and sings "Reunion Song"
The Lantern Festival is also a reunion moment. The whole Lantern Party runs through the themes of "reunion" and "celebration". The opening song "Selling Tangyuan" is steaming and red-hot. Zhao Kaisheng, a famous commentator in the outer filming group, Chen Yu, a famous Shanghai opera performance artist, and Sun Zhengyang, a famous Peking Opera performance artist, talked about art and celebrated the Lantern Festival with the three groups of teachers and apprentices, and many little-known "secrets" will be revealed one by one at the party. At the party, Xie Yan, a young commentator who has successfully completed liver surgery and returned to the stage under the relay of caring people from all walks of life, will also send a song "Flower Good Moon" to the audience together with her partner Lu Jiawei to wish everyone happiness and health.
The reunion atmosphere has been very "red-hot", there are three "living treasures" and "adding fuel to the fire", three famous artists from burlesque, Yue opera, and Peking Opera, Qian Yi, Xu Biaoxin, and Chen Shengjie, interpreting the three beauties, light makeup and thick makeup, only for Bo Jun to smile.
Happy moments, but also indispensable to the "blessing" of one-legged plays, the blockbuster performance "The Laughter of Shikumen" is difficult to find, so that many fans of Mao Mengda and Shen Ronghai sighed. However, at the Lantern Party, the "Mao Shoots" combination will make up for the regrets of fans and friends, and a piece of "Mental Illness" tells contemporary people living in fast-paced and high-pressure: good mentality, everything is good.
Whether it's listening to classic melodies, reliving the years in the "old days", or feeling the rhythm of innovation, dancing with the "Generation Z". Lantern Festival, is a time of family reunion, family sitting together, listening to a song, watching a play, telling a story, sharing each other's times, feeling the common happiness, is the best "ending" of this Spring Festival. At the same time, the party will also take the audience to visit Jinshan Yuzui Village, experience the intangible cultural heritage projects, immerse themselves in the annual customs from Jiangnan culture and Haipai culture, and enjoy a different audio-visual feast in the gentle tune of Wu Nong's soft language, which is also a Lantern Gift given to everyone by the City Channel of Shanghai Radio and Television Station. Now come to lock the Shanghai Radio and Television Station City Channel or download the BesTV TV client, at 19:00 on the fifteenth day of the first month, let's enjoy the opera feast together! (China Daily Shanghai Branch)