Blue Sky, Yang Donghu, Hao Jie, Yang Yang, Gao Hongmei, Hao Shuai, Yang Nan, Wang Xilong, Tian Hui, Fu Xiru... The 10 outstanding actors selected by the Shanghai Peking Opera House will appear in the Series of Top Talents of the Shanghai Peking Opera House from next month onwards, and the first performance will be performed on the Shanghai Tiantou Yifu Stage on March 26.
The special performance of the Shanghai Peking Opera House's Top Talents Series will launch two classic repertoire performances every month, and each selected top talent will perform two consecutive performances, combined with the artistic characteristics and learning experience of each starring actor, and select the most representative genres and classic plays of the industry. The performance repertoire consists of a big drama and a folding play, mainly a traditional repertoire, but also a classic new drama.
The performance presents the combination of culture and martial arts, singing and doing well, through stage experience to promote actors to challenge themselves, stimulate potential, transform and grow, and gradually become the reserve force of "Shangjing strength faction", shouldering the heavy responsibility of leading various trades and genres nationwide in the future.
Ten top-notch talents will successively bring "Heroes of the Crowd, Borrowing the East Wind, Huarong Dao", "Lin Chong Night Run", "Beating the Nephew on the Grave", "Cao Cao and Yang Xiu", "Serial Set", "Three Thieves and Nine Dragon Cups", "Jiang Pinglaoyin", "Golden Knife Array", "Red Lady", "Xie Yaohuan", "Yutang Spring", "Yangmen Female General", "Great Haunting Heavenly Palace", "Intercepting the River to Fight", "Evil Tiger Village", "Zhou RenXian Sister-in-law", "Zhuangbei", "Changsakapo Hanjinkou", "YaguanLou", "Tielong Mountain", "Taizhen Waichuan", "White Snake Legend", "Zhu Curtain Village", "Zixu Escape".
In recent years, relying on the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation and the Shanghai Xiqu Art Center Art Development Foundation, the theater has cultivated a large number of high-end talents in opera art and established a high-quality actor echelon. Among them, a group of outstanding graduate students of the "Youth Research Class" and the winners of the "Qingjing Competition" who are full of vigor and vitality have become the mainstays of the opera stage.
This year, the theater continued the overall strategy of "branch returning" and the talent training mechanism of "one person, one policy", and in this batch of echelons, 10 outstanding actors were selected as the top talent training objects, and tailor-made for them the sea charm and focus on the Beijing Classics - the series of top talents of the Shanghai Peking Opera House. The cultivation of Peking Opera talents is a long-term systematic project, which needs to be actively carried forward by the previous generations of artists to carry forward the spirit of "passing on the help" and the systematic inheritance mode of "oral transmission and heart teaching".
In 2016 and 2018, the theater planned and implemented the "Famous Teachers Passing on the Arts" project, and over the years more than ten famous artists have taught classic plays and presented them on the stage. This time, the theater specially hired national famous artists and famous teachers to carry out the "one-to-one" teaching of the classic repertoire of the genre to 10 outstanding actors, helping them to fully grasp the genre table acting method and genre style, and highlight their personal artistic expertise, so that they can form a distinct personal artistic style while inheriting the traditional classics.
Author: Wang Xiaoli
Photo: Courtesy of Shanghai Peking Opera House
Editor: Wang Licheng
Editor-in-Charge: Xiaofang Xing
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