Cover news reporter Li Yuxin
When the popular song "Little" is slowly sung by kunqu actors, coupled with the aesthetic picture of figure skating, what is it like? When 13 children gathered the major trades in Peking Opera and sang traditional opera fragments to pay tribute to the "Thirteen Absolute Lights of The Same Light", what kind of eye-catching scenes were there? On the night of the Lantern Festival, such a program is staged in turn at station B, using a hard-core mix-and-match way to interpret the classic of pear garden.
On February 15th, Station B held the lantern party "Bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival" for the first time, and unlike the previous festival evenings, this opera became the "protagonist" of the evening. In the evening, the program took the search for the large lanterns of the ancient Lantern Festival as the main line, and integrated the opera and popular elements in a cross-border mix-and-match manner, presenting an unprecedented opera feast.
The evening program scene
When figure skating meets Kunqu opera, immerse yourself in the beauty of opera
When pop singer Xu Song's "Yan Homecoming" under the cross-border mix of Wang Peiyu and Alain, with the integration of opera singing and pop music, the connotation of reunion is presented, and the new national style song is played to the extreme; the same popular song "Little" also ushered in a new version of Kunqu opera, under the premise of "Peony Pavilion" as the model, national first-class actors Shao Tianshuai and Weng Jiahui cooperated with figure skating dance, using the Kunqu opera singing voice to slowly sing the song, with the picture of figure skaters dancing on the ice, although it is "mixed and matched", it is extremely beautiful The famous opera artist Meng Guanglu and the young opera actors recreated the classic national essences such as "Xianghe", "Spring and Autumn Pen", "Dingjun Mountain" and other classic national essences in a film and television manner, and presented the different trades and spiritual cores of opera with the traditional drama of the five horns singing...
Looking at the program of the Lantern Party at Station B, it can be clear at a glance that "Xiqu" has become the well-deserved protagonist of the party. Not only invited the famous Peking Opera actor Wang Peiyu, the famous opera artist Meng Guanglu, the Kunqu opera actor Weng Jiahui, Shao Tianshuai, etc., and even the up master "Shangju 416 Women's Troupe" who appeared was also composed of students who graduated from peking opera performance.
According to the staff of Station B, the whole evening took opera as the core, and invited Ma Jiuyue, the resident composer of the Central Chinese Orchestra, as the music director, Xu Mengke, a national first-class actor and director, as the director of the opera, and Meng Guanglu, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and vice chairman of the China Drama Association, as a heavy guest. The plot is composed of six main parts: "Splendid Lanterns", "Lantern Evening Meeting", "Lantern Watching and Singing", "Dreaming with Lights", "Lantern Viewing Drama" and "Aoshan Lighting", which refers to the history of opera and shows the rich and colorful opera culture. In addition, the scenery cooperates with the non-heritage kip stone lantern and the Quanzhou flower lantern. In each unique and creative opera performance, local folklore is also implanted, such as guessing lantern riddles, English song and dance, walking bridges, filial piety puppets, rolling lantern selling, etc.
In the program, there are not only well-known opera masters and national first-class actors, but more rarely, they have seen the inheritance of opera art in the younger generation. For example, the program "Aoshan Xiaojie" is composed of 13 children performing different kinds of plays in different costumes, paying tribute to the "Thirteen Absolutes of The Same Light", reflecting the opera culture and heritage of different regions. At the end of the party, an Easter egg was also set up for the audience, and when the image of the opera class learning art appeared, it not only showed the difficulties of the opera people behind the scenes, but also paid tribute to the inheritors of Pear Garden art.
The famous opera artists "mix and match" the national style UP master to inject new vitality into the opera
Why did you choose "Xiqu" as the theme of a show evening? This is probably inseparable from the popularity of opera culture in Station B in recent years. It is understood that in 2021, the number of national wind enthusiasts in Station B will exceed 177 million, and the number of people aged 18-30 will account for about 70%. The young people of Station B interpret the national style in various ways, and 62% of the traditional skill video creators are 18-30 years old. At the same time, in the past year, the number of drama video playback has increased by 275% in Station B.
For example, the UP main "Shangju 416 Girl Group" that appeared on the party was composed of 5 post-00s girls from the Xiqu Academy of Shanghai Theater Academy, who sang the video of the ancient song "Chiling" in a dramatic way, which reached 1223.7w on the B station, and was reported by mainstream media such as CCTV, People's Daily, and Xinhua News Agency. The UP masters "Hun Yuan Rysn" and "Han Liang Teacher", who also appeared at the party, are all very popular up chinese style UP masters at present.
"Although the opera is very popular, the opera is not only the opera. "Bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival" balances the proportion of drama and hardcore opera, presents different categories of opera elements, and links between opera culture and Chinese spirit. The staff of station B introduced it like this.
(The picture of this article is provided by Station B)