Modern Express News (correspondent Zhang Yan, reporter Song Jingwei) "The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, the flocks are chasing deer, and the land is divided into territories ..." Recently, the large-scale original historical tin drama "Big Wind Song" was brilliantly staged at the Yixing People's Theater. It is reported that the play was selected into the National Arts Fund's 2020 annual communication and exchange promotion funding project, and this performance is also the premiere of the upgraded version of "Big Wind Song" after "three changes and three performances", which has been enthusiastically praised and highly praised by Yixing opera fans.
As a wonderful new year's play for the 2022 "Our Chinese Dream - Culture into Ten Thousand Homes" cultural benefit activity, from February 9 to 14, the Xi Opera Troupe of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group went to Yixing for six performances with three costume dramas, "Song of the Great Wind", "Double Pearl Phoenix" and "Zhuangyuan Dagen". The big drama "Big Wind Song" that took the lead has accumulated a lot of popularity and is highly anticipated.
The drama is written by Jia Lu, a national first-class screenwriter, directed by Han Jianying, a famous director of the China Critics Theatre, starring Zhou Dongliang, a famous tin opera performance artist, and starring Tang Da, Zhang Jinhua, Ji Chunyan and other famous tin opera artists. The premiere was completed in July 2018 and has since been toured more than 50 times in Jiangsu Province and Shanghai.
On the stage, Liu Bang began the "second half of his life" after gaining hegemony, and he experienced hardships and speculations between him and the famous minister Xiao He, and finally reached a reconciliation between the monarch and the courtier. At the climax of the whole play, the monarch and the courtiers eat The Tanglin melon, followed by a toast group dance, playing an impassioned song of the Great Han Dynasty.
Compared with the previous performances, this upgraded version of "The Song of the Great Wind" has left an aftertaste for more fans. "The drama is stronger, and the staying power is greater." "Interpreting Jiangsu's historical and cultural celebrities through the Tin Opera Jiangsu Drama Genre 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 high-quality and sincere literary and artistic creations in the future."
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, revealed that 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 has gradually become a tradition in our troupe." "
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. (Photo courtesy of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Tin Opera Troupe)