On February 15th, Station B held the Lantern Festival for the first time ,bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival," which took the search for the ancient Lantern Lantern Festival's large-scale lanterns as the main line, and integrated opera and popular elements in a cross-border mix-and-match manner, presenting an unprecedented opera feast.
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Station B held the Lantern Party for the first time "Bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival"
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, on the other hand, many opera lovers have injected new vitality into it. The "Shangju 416 Girl Group" sang the ancient style song "Red Ling" in a dramatic way, and the playback volume of B station was 1223.7w. 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".
"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, in the era of Internet video, is riding on the east wind of new forms and carriers, and is full of more vigorous vitality.
[Reporter] Liang Yan
【Author】 Liang Yan
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client