On February 15, Station B held the Lantern Evening Party "Bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival" for the first time, the program took the search for the ancient Lantern Lantern Festival's large-scale lantern color Aoshan Lantern as the main line, and integrated opera with popular elements in a cross-border mix-and-match way, 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" also ushered in a new Kun edition, 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, together with young opera actors, reproduced the classic national essences such as "General Xianghe", "Spring and Autumn Pen", "Dingjun Mountain", "Suolin Capsule" and "Playing Dragon Robe" in a film and television manner, presenting the different trades and spiritual cores of opera. "Aoshan Xiaojie" is performed by 13 children opera actors with different kinds of plays, 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, showing "one minute on stage, ten years offstage" through classic images, in order to pay tribute to the inheritors of Pear Garden art, so that opera can return to the life of Chinese across time and space.
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 re-liked by young people, on the one hand, 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 inject new vitality into it. The "416 Women's Group of Shangju Opera" sang the ancient style song "Chiling" in a dramatic way, which was played by 12.237 million people on the B station, and was reported by mainstream media such as CCTV, People's Daily, and Xinhua News Agency. Station B's well-known "head-changing" UP master Lao Bajie combines opera with cyberpunk to create a hard-core Hanfu makeup, which can really be described as "everything can be Chinese style".
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 most beautiful night show "Waiting for Your Return" in 2021bilibili integrates tradition and modernity, making the opera "hot" 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 masters, "Shangju 416 Girl Group", Hun Yuan Rysn, Teacher Han Liang, and the kung fu dreams of the two uncles have come. Several aunts in the director Xiao Ce square dance universe also transformed into the "melon-eating masses" in the party.
Opera is breaking through different circles and ushering in new developments. This is also 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 interpret the national style in various ways, and 62% of the traditional skill video creators are 18-30 years old. 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 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.
Opera, in the era of Internet video, is riding on the east wind of new forms and carriers, and is full of more vigorous vitality. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)