Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Ma Li
As night falls, the lights shine brightly.
On February 15th, the 2022 Beijing [Yunkun Cavity Lantern Festival] Opera Gala was grandly performed at the Hangzhou Red Star Theatre, thus opening the curtain of the 2022 [Zhejiang Jingkun New Year Performance Week] of Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center.
The whole Beijing-Kunming opera evening is full of literature and martial arts, with a variety of genres, Beijing rhymes and strong Kun flavor. It is composed of four art sections: "New Year's Day", "Watching Beijing Opera", "Listening to Kunqu Opera", and "Beijing-Kunming Martial Arts Lantern Festival", which concentrates on many wonderful scenes and singing voices of the center (Beijing and Kunming two groups). The warm applause, cheers and screams of the audience rose and fell, pushing the party to a climax again and again.
Throughout the evening, the outstanding Jingkun artists of Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center sang and danced, soaring and jumping, the tone of the Kun cavity was melodious and graceful, and the posture of Peking Opera was dignified and elegant, so that the audience could not turn their eyes, listened to it like a mesmerizing, and unfinished. The whole Beijing-Kunming evening party last night a total of more than 40 minutes of performance, the choreography and directing team worked together, joined hands, many of the Beijing-Kunming traditional repertoire excerpts in the whole evening was reorganized and blended, the stage presentation technique is novel, unique, very clear show the vigorous stage vitality of the traditional art of Beijing-Kunming.
This Spring Festival Lantern Party fully demonstrated the unique artistic expression charm of Jingyun Kunlu, with a bright rhythm and a simple stage landscape.
The opening program "Zodiac Lantern Festival" fully demonstrated the flexible and changeable body language of the Jingkun actors, twelve kinds of opera style bodies, twelve opera zodiac faces, and vividly showed twelve clever and cute zodiac animals on the stage, and the "big tiger" played by You Zhilei was mighty and domineering, leaping lightly, and passing on the auspicious atmosphere of this year's tiger year to the audience.
The chapter of "Listening to the Beijing Cavity" is cleverly composed of the industry of Peking Opera.
The outstanding Danjiao Luo Rongzheng, Jiang Yan, Mao Lingying and Jin Jin sang the beautiful and elegant Danjiao genre of Peking Opera, singing particularly pleasantly and beautifully; the flower-faced actors Mao Yi, Zhang Xu, Cheng Peijie, Kong Lingqian, and the high-pitched and exciting singing section aroused bursts of applause from the audience. Young veteran actors Wang Feng and Zhuang Huayu sang the famous Peking Opera sections "Dingjun Mountain" and "Three Stores" with full charm.
The passage "Watching Kunqu Opera" concentrates on the performance talents of Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Actors of Zhejiang Kunqu Opera, such as Yang Kun, Tang Jianhua, Xiang Weidong, Bao Chen, Zeng Jie, Hu Lou, Wang Jing, Zhang Kangan, Hu Linan, Tian Yang, Wang Hengtao, Zhu Bin, etc., with songs and dances, and complete in literature and martial arts. Scenes such as "Yaguan Lou", "Peony Pavilion • Garden", "Changsheng Hall • Small Feast", "Sword Chronicles • Night Run" and "Water Margin • Picking curtains" caused the audience to laugh from time to time.
At the end of the evening, Jin Sujun, An Lina, Ni Runzhi, Cui Baoyu, Huang Yong, Cheng Xianghui, Li Xingxing, Sha Guoliang and other Zhejiang Jingkun martial arts actors performed the traditional performance procedures and complex and changeable song and dance bodies of The Jingkun Martial Arts, as well as the carpet skills of churning and falling and tossing and turning, throwing, spinning, bumping, picking, playing, turning, picking, and throwing, playing, turning, picking, and throwing, showing a rich and colorful performance.
On the stage, swords, guns, swords, axes and forks, full of swirling and flying, wonderful. 【Jingkun Martial Arts Lantern Festival】This chapter connects many wonderful martial arts clips, dazzling group dances, one after another "fighting strings", and the thrilling "three dangers and four smashing martial arts big stalls", which fully demonstrates the neat flipping skills and light flipping skills of the excellent martial arts team of Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center.
The end of the party slowly ended in the famous Zhang Pai Qingyi Wang Xiaojun singing the Beijing song "Powder Spring and Autumn", and nearly 100 outstanding Jingkun actors took to the stage in turn in the melodious and beautiful Beijing song singing, which pushed the performance atmosphere of the whole party to the climax.
At the moment of curtain closing, the affectionate and delicate Kunyun vocal cavity touched everyone's heartstrings, and the high-pitched and exciting Beijing-style melody inspired the Jingkun people to continue to forge ahead; when nearly 100 cast members of Zhejiang Jingkun rushed to the front of the stage and bowed to the audience, the warm applause thundered and swirled, and the applause and praise lasted endlessly in the Red Star Theater Theater.
Finally, in the cheerful background music, Weng Guosheng, the chief planner and producer of the evening party, Weng Guosheng, secretary of the party committee and director of the center of Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center, on behalf of all the cast and crew of the center, expressed his deep gratitude to the fans and audiences who enthusiastically watched last night's performance, and warmly invited the audience and friends to continue to watch the performances of the seven Beijing-Kunming operas such as "Peony Pavilion", "Wangjiang Pavilion" and "Baolian Lantern".
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