Sharing the Chinese New Year, culture into ten thousand homes. As a wonderful new year's play of the 2022 "Our Chinese Dream - Culture into Ten Thousand Homes" cultural activity to benefit the people, from February 9 to 14, the Xi Opera Troupe of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group went to the Yixing People's Theater for six performances with three costume plays, "Dafeng Song", "Double Pearl Phoenix" and "Zhuangyuan Dagen". On the evening of February 9, the large-scale original historical tin drama "Song of the Great Wind" made a wonderful start. The play was selected for the National Arts Fund's 2020 Annual Communication and Exchange Promotion Fund, and this performance is also the premiere of the upgraded version of "Big Wind Song" after the previous "three changes and three performances", which has been enthusiastically praised and highly praised by Yixing opera fans.
"The wind rises and the clouds fly, the flock chases the deer, the land is divided..." The large-scale original historical tin drama "The Song of the Great Wind" is written by Jia Lu, a national first-class screenwriter, directed by Han Jianying, a famous director of the China Commentary Theatre, starring Zhou Dongliang, a famous tin opera performance artist, and starring Tang Da, Zhang Jinhua, Ji Chunyan and other famous tin opera artists. With a unique perspective, the play revolves around the contradiction between Liu Bang and Xiao He, a famous Ming Junxian in history, and unfolds an impassioned "big wind song".
The play completed its premiere in July 2018, and since then it has toured more than 50 times in Jiangsu Province and Shanghai and other cities, and has also participated in exhibitions and performances such as the Zijin Culture and Art Festival, the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, and the China Taizhou Meilanfang Art Festival, and in 2019, it was also selected as the "Jiangsu Opera Masterpiece Project" to carry out touring activities in eight universities in Jiangsu, and achieved a wide range of social influence. In addition, "The Song of the Great Wind" also won the "Excellent Repertoire Award" of the 4th Jiangsu Wenhua Award, the "Five Ones Project" Award of the 11th Spiritual Civilization Construction of Jiangsu Province, and the Excellent Repertoire Award of the 2018 Zijin Culture and Art Festival.
At the beginning of last year, "The Wind Song" was selected for the 2020 rolling funding project of the National Arts Fund, and three rounds of offline and online expert revision meetings were held last year, and more than 10 leaders and experts took the pulse of the play, from the structure, rhythm, and lines of the work to music, costumes, choreography and other aspects. After three rounds of polishing and modification, this performance is the public premiere of the upgraded version of "Gale Song". According to Zhou Dongliang, a famous tin opera performance artist, deputy secretary of the party committee of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group, head of the provincial tin opera troupe, and actor of Liu Bang in the play, this has been the 13th consecutive new year in Yixing for the troupe, "Watching the tin opera troupe during the New Year has become a 'new folk custom' for Yixing opera fans, and it has gradually become a tradition in our troupe." ”
Fans of the scene also said that now the New Year can be indispensable to the "tin opera" this cultural feast, ""The big wind song" drama is strong, full of staying power, after watching it is worth revisiting and thinking about" "the actors are superb, the story has a deep historical and cultural connotation, suitable for the whole family to watch"; some of them have seen the previous version of the opera fans also praised the upgraded version of more wonderful condensation, "the theme is clearer and clearer, the artwork is more prominent, it is a rare stage product"; and some viewers said that Liu Bang, Most of the Chu and Han heroes such as Xiao He are from Jiangsu, "interpreting jiangsu's historical and cultural celebrities through Jiangsu opera such as tin opera is a very positive attempt, and taking history as a mirror is also an excellent tradition on our opera stage, and I hope that we can see more such quality and sincere literary and artistic creations in the future."
The "Our Chinese Dream - Culture into Ten Thousand Homes" activity is a key cultural activity for the benefit of the people since 2014, which is well received by the grassroots masses. In 2022, the activities of culture into ten thousand homes are continuing to be carried out, and the vast number of cultural and artistic workers in Jiangsu take root in the grassroots, serve the masses, strive to create more excellent works that meet the cultural needs of the people and enhance the people's spiritual strength, and sing the main melody and spread positive energy through cultural and artistic activities with diverse forms, rich content and rich connotations.
After two consecutive performances of "Song of the Great Wind", the Jiangsu Tin Opera Troupe will also perform the classic traditional plays "Double Pearl Phoenix" and "Zhuangyuan Dagen" successively, inheriting the classic repertoire, interpreting the beauty of opera, and accompanying Jiangsu people to spend a Spring Festival full of cultural connotations and full of the temperature of the times.
Proofread by Xu Heng
Source: Purple Cow News