Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Ma Li Correspondent Guo Nan
Love the Lantern Festival three five scenery, the moonlight Chan Juan, brilliant lights.
On the occasion of the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Tiger in 2022, the famous Yue opera performance artist Mao Weitao and Zhang Yiqing, an actor of the Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe, brought the well-known and familiar Yue opera new version of "Liang Zhu" classic fragment "Caoqiao Jiebai" to everyone on the stage of the CCTV Lantern Opera Gala.
The beautiful melody spread throughout the motherland, and also brought gifts carrying the nostalgia of overseas compatriots.
It is worth mentioning that with Mao Weitao on stage, it is the first virtual Yue opera actor "Shangguan Wan'er" - from the yue opera skin in the virtual world of the game to the innovative interpretation of holographic technology on the spot, which fully demonstrates her unique charm as a female student of Yue opera.
The two "glories" illuminate each other
Taking into account both tradition and new trends, it has always been a true portrayal of Mao Weitao's "seeking innovation".
In 2019, under the guidance and support of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Zhejiang Province, shengzhou municipal bureau of culture and tourism and other units, Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe and Wang Zhi glory launched cross-border cooperation in Yue opera culture to jointly help Yue opera "break the circle" and make Yue opera enter the eyes of more young people nowadays.
Wan'er cross-dimensional "worshipper" Mao Weitao became a female primary actor of the Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe; and Wan'er's Yue opera skin was also born.
The two sides chose "Liang Zhu", which is of great significance to both Yue opera and Mao Weitao, and recreated it according to the image of Liang Shanbo played by Mao Weitao in the new version of "Liang Zhu" - if the new version of "Liang Zhu" is a reinterpretation of the classic, then the cross-dimensional "worship of the teacher" is a fashion expression of oriental traditional culture in the Internet age.
The purpose that Mao Weitao constantly pursues is to bring Yue opera back to the public eye and attract more young and unfamiliar eyes. Her efforts have not been in vain, the new fan team has gradually become large, and the age group has transitioned from "post-80s" to "post-00s".
In 2006, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yue opera, Mao Weitao proposed in the article "Yue Opera That Unfolds to the Future": Can Yue opera have more cultural bearing in today's society? Standing on the spiritual high ground of the times, how to make Yue opera resonate with the audience with emotions and thoughts?
Today, 16 years later, the answer is still, "seeking innovation."
Mao Weitao has said many times that the development of Yue opera in the past hundred years has taken an inclusive and enterprising path. However, when talking about the current situation of the development of Yue opera, Mao Weitao frankly said that compared with other local dramas, Yue opera has survived quite well, but as an industry person, it can be said very unceremoniously that if Chinese opera continues to develop in this way, there is no way out at all.
"Don't complain about this era for abandoning you, first of all, reflect on yourself, whether you are ready for the Internet era."
She believes that the characteristics of Yue opera art should not be immutable, rather than being blunt in the same vein, it is better to combine traditional culture and modernity, so that the dissemination is more comfortable and more truly recognized by the public.
On the shore of the West Lake, butterflies "flutter"
In 2006, Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe re-created and rehearsed the Yue opera "Liang Zhu" to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Yue opera, and this ancient love story was rejuvenated with new vitality.
Under the premise of fully respecting the classics, the new version of "Liang Zhu" completes the development lines of the "Liang Zhu" story and the emotional context of the characters from a more humane and humanistic perspective, fully makes this ancient love story that has been recited for many years fully young and interesting and modern, and realizes the most poetic, romantic and modern integration of Yue opera, which was born in Jiangnan folk drama for a hundred years.
The stage expression of the play "using the fan to symbolize the butterfly" allows the actors to bring out the emotions of the characters and the imagery of the opera through the action and scheduling of the fan in the performance. At the same time, through the integration of modern dance vocabulary into the traditional opera program, the "encounter", "acquaintance", "worship", "separation", "farewell" and "butterfly" of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in the whole drama can be presented with the appearance of both classical and modern, both traditional and fashionable, both Chinese and world.
Generations of Yue opera people adhere to the principle of "keeping right and innovating", adhering to the principle of "respecting the classics, but not following the classics; using the modern, but not abusing the modern", this butterfly that has flown for more than 1400 years has finally become a classic engraved in the history of art after undergoing repeated transformations.
Zhejiang is the hometown of Yue opera, but also the hometown of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, their love story has been polished by countless artists for thousands of years, and has been pupated into a butterfly, praised by the Chinese people. Yue opera is a treasure of Chinese opera culture and art. Baiyue Cultural Creation and "Butterfly Theater", as a new cultural symbol of Yue opera art, will adhere to the concept of carrying forward tradition, keeping right and innovating, and add more dazzling brilliance to the Yue opera art that has experienced more than a century of wind and rain.
Last year, the successful holding of the "Fenghua Reproduction • Baiyue Cultural Creation First Yue Opera Excellent Repertoire Invitation Exhibition" was hailed as the most grand exhibition and performance activity in the Yue opera industry in the past ten years - not only received great attention from inside and outside the industry, but also caused a heated discussion in the circle of opera fans, which was called "Crossing the Circle Festival" by opera fans, and looked forward to the arrival of the exhibition season in 2022.
This spring, the second invitational exhibition will be held as scheduled.
At that time, Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Theatre, Shanghai Yue Theatre, Hangzhou Yue Theatre, Shaoxing Xiaobaihuayue Theatre, four Yue opera industry "super popular" performance groups will bring audiences and friends six classic Yue opera repertoire, including "Lu You and Tang Wan", "Meng Lijun" and "Lu Wenlong".
On April 16th and 17th, Mao Weitao, a famous Yue opera performance artist who appeared on stage at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and CCTV Lantern Opera Gala, will return to the stage with the image of "Liang Shanbo", and together with Zhu Yingtai Chen Xiaohong, the "First Generation", present the new version of yue opera "Liang Zhu" in full, and at the end of the performance, specially invited world-class composer, 88-year-old Mr. He Zhanhao, and violinist Ms. Wu Zhengyu to play the violin concerto "Liang Zhu HuaDi".
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