Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Zhang Jiulong
The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is the "carnival" of the Chinese. On the evening of February 14, the 2022 Shandong Lantern Opera Gala was held in the Opera Hall of the Shandong Provincial Capital Grand Theatre, allowing the audience to experience the carnival and romance of a handful of opera workers.
It was a party without a host, or even a party without strings of words. The whole evening party is based on the fantasy journey of a young girl, and under the creative collision with self-media, the Internet, and the meta-universe, her footprints have traveled all over the land of Qilu, the rushing Yellow River, the majestic Taishan, the noisy Kuanhouli, and the solemn Hero Mountain... Videos and anime played on the big screen are tailor-made, and it takes a lot of effort just to prepare these materials. When chatting with the main creative team, I learned that they have been busy with this matter before and after the Spring Festival, and there are indeed too many difficulties behind the glamorousness.
In recent years, the national tide has been booming. Songs that embody opera elements such as "Exploring the Window", "Goddess Splitting View", "Chiling", and "Wanjiang" made the young audience at the scene boil with blood. Just looking at these names is really strange, but as soon as the melody rings, you know that they are very popular background music in Douyin, sung by professional opera actors, and have a different taste. In addition, the new folk music "Elephant King Xing" combines the wild and sonorous sound of the electric guitar, which also brings a strong impact. In the words of the main creative team: "The deconstruction and reconstruction of traditional opera by the whole evening shows the vigorous vitality of traditional opera." ”
The core of the xiqu evening is xiqu, which shows shandong's strength as a big opera province. The modern Peking opera "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Troupe", the Liuzi opera "Sister Jiang", and the Lu opera "My Heart Eternal" are all "active elements" in red works. Shandong Zizi's "Breaking into Youzhou", the five-tone drama "Zhao Meirong Guan Lantern", the Liuqin drama "Fu Dani and shan bar", and Mao Cavity's "The Story of Yangge Township" are a number of representative works of Shandong local opera. Some of them are gorgeous costumes, some have wonderful plots, and some are addicted to drama, even if they are not familiar with opera, they can also feel the charm of opera art, which is the meaning of the Lantern Opera Gala.
In ancient times, opera itself was a trend culture, a fashion culture, which was appreciated by both elegant and popular, and was liked by young people. What is surprising is that most of the young faces on and off the stage of this party are young faces. According to Li Bei, the general director of the party, one of the highlights of the party is that the actors are mainly young actors after 80 and 90, counting the last few plum blossom award winners, and the average age is not more than 35 years old. The same is true of the audience, the young audience has increased significantly, and they can watch with relish and applause continuously.
Backstage, the supporting team is equally youthful and energetic, which is rare in official performances. This year, it is easy to understand technology, it is difficult to understand the trend, and if you want to know the interests of young people, you have to rely on young people themselves. There is light in the eyes of young people, and there are so many people who are willing to work hard to promote the art of opera and spread the good voice of the country, which is the most gratifying.
Nowadays, nine out of ten people who are engaged in traditional culture want to "go out of the circle", and there may not be many people out of the circle. As a major cultural province, Shandong is under pressure. To get out of the circle, you first have to come up with something different. Opera is combined with two-dimensional, street dance, and Internet celebrity ancient style songs, and whether it is suitable or inappropriate, you can think of using these elements to combine, dare to take this step to boldly try, it is already winning. The roads of the world are all stumbled out and tried out, especially the cultural "two innovations".
Of course, after the carnival, opera innovation will be more difficult. With the novel sound and light, service and chemical road to attract young people to punch in to take photos, take videos is far from enough, after all, it is too easy to cause aesthetic fatigue by taking the "technical flow", even if it is a boom, what should it be after two or three years? To do a good job in the second half of the article of innovation, we still have to grasp the fundamentals, so that the core of opera is truly accepted by young people and reaches the hearts of the people, just like the "Easter egg" of the Winter Olympics at the end of the party, "together to the future".