Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Li Rui
When the Kunqu opera "Peony Pavilion" meets the popular golden song "Little", and there is a figure skating dance as a companion, what will be the picture? On February 15th, Station B held the Lantern Festival for the first time "Bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival", which took the search for the large-scale lanterns of the ancient Lantern Lantern Festival as the main line, and integrated opera and popular elements in a cross-border mix-and-match manner, presenting an unprecedented opera feast.
Cross-border mix-and-match to create a different kind of Lantern Party
Xu Song's "Yan Homecoming" is mixed and matched by Wang Peiyu and Alan, integrating opera singing and pop music, presenting the connotation of reunion and playing the new national style song to the extreme. "Little" ushered in a new Kunqu version, based on "Peony Pavilion", national first-class actors Shao Tianshuai and Weng Jiahui cooperated with figure skating dance to create an immersive viewing experience. In addition, the famous opera artist Meng Guanglu and the young opera actors recreated the classic national essences such as "General Xianghe", "Spring and Autumn Pen", "Dingjun Mountain", "Suolin Capsule" and "Fighting Dragon Robe" in a film and television manner, and presented the different trades and spiritual cores of opera with the traditional drama of the five horns.
"Aoshan Xiaojie" is performed by 13 children with different costumes, paying tribute to the "Thirteen Absolutes of Tongguang", reflecting the opera culture and inheritance of different regions. At the end of the party, an Easter egg was also set up for everyone, and when the image of the opera class learning art appeared, as a tribute to the inheritors of the art of Pear Garden, it was as if the opera crossed time and space and returned to the life of the Chinese.
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 opera director, 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.
Break through the circle and inject new vitality into the opera
In recent years, opera has been embraced by young people again, first of all, because of the unique charm of opera. The purity of life and the end of the ugly, benevolence, righteousness, wisdom and faith have precipitated the moral and aesthetic choices of China's civil society for generations. On the other hand, many opera lovers injected new vitality into it, and the "Shangju 416 Girl Group" sang the ancient song "Red Ling" with a drama cavity, and the number of plays on the B station reached 12.237 million.
Many high-quality opera content is also continuing to "break the circle", the first 4K panoramic Cantonese opera movie "White Snake Legend , Love" after the release of the box office reached 200 million yuan, the online B station played more than 10 million, the score of up to 9.9, the new form of traditional Cantonese opera culture broke the barriers of the circle, by the young people's enthusiasm. The "Waiting for Your Return" program in "The Most Beautiful Night of 2021bilibili" integrates tradition and modernity, making opera popular all over the Internet.
"Bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival" allows the ancient and the young to shake hands, let the ancient and modern dialogue, set the scenery and the non-heritage stone lantern and cooperate with 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 addition to the famous opera artists, the guests also include the very popular Guofeng UP lord, "Shangju 416 Girl Group", Hun Yuan Rysn, Teacher Han Liang, and the kung fu dreams of the two uncles have come, and several aunts in the director Xiao Ce Square Dance Universe have also transformed into "melon-eating masses" in the party.
Opera is breaking through different circles and ushering in new developments. Based on the strong traditional cultural creation atmosphere of the B station community. In 2021, the number of national wind enthusiasts in Station B exceeded 177 million, and the number of people aged 18-30 accounted for about 70%. The young people of Station B use various ways to interpret the national style, and among the traditional skill video creators, 18-30 years old account for 62%, and more and more people understand, learn and inherit traditional culture through video.
In the past year, the number of theater video playback has increased by as much as 275% in Station B. Although opera is very popular, opera is not only opera, "Bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Society" balances the proportion of opera cavity and traditional opera, presenting different categories of opera elements and the link between opera culture and Chinese spirit. In the era of Internet video, opera is riding on the east wind of new forms and carriers, and it is full of more vigorous vitality.