To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of People's Artist Yuan Xuefen, the Colorful Drama Channel of Shanghai Radio and Television Station has broadcast the classic works and precious images of Master Yuan Xuefen every night for five consecutive days since March 22. The familiar melody and touching art make people once again indulge in the charm of the master, and also nourish people's hearts with the fountain of art in this spring that has been "cold in the spring" due to the epidemic.
Yuan Xuefen
This special section will once again present the classic masterpieces of Master Yuan Xuefen - the Yue opera films "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and "Xianglin Sister-in-law". As the four classics of Yue opera, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is the first large-scale color film in New China, while "Xianglin Sister-in-law" is hailed as a "milestone" in the reform of Yue opera. Although these two films have been broadcast on the drama channel many times, they are still widely loved by opera lovers, and the images of Zhu Yingtai and Xiang Linyi created by Master Yuan Xuefen can be called the insurmountable peak of Yue opera garden art.
Stills from "Xiang Lin Sister-in-law"
In addition to the two widely circulated movies, the special section also arranged three episodes of the TV series "Xiang Lin Sister-in-law", which was rarely broadcast before and was not widely circulated among the audience. Compared with the 90-minute movie version, the story of the nearly 30-hour Yue opera TV series is more detailed, the relationship between the characters, the contradictions and conflicts are more complicated, and the image of the young Xianglin sister-in-law played by Yuan Xuefen in the play fills the blank of the movie version. The broadcast of the movie and TV series "Xianglin Sister-in-law" can also be seen by the audience to feel the process of perfection of classic art in continuous polishing and modification.
In addition to the two yuan pai classic plays, in 5 days, colorful drama will also continuously play the album "Famous Artists" and "Yuan Xuefen and Her Yuan Pai Art". The album collects Yuan Xuefen's stage performances and TELEVISION videos in different periods, which can be called the culmination of Yuan Pai's art collection, including both popular and well-known singing segments such as "Qin Xin" and "Qua Fu", as well as "Plum Blossom Soul , Heavy Stage Farewell", "Embroidered Hundred Flowers", "Female Looks" and other rare video materials such as "Lost Pearls in the Sea". Through these singing segments and performances, the artistic process of the yue opera Yuan school of art nurturing, developing and maturing is presented more completely.
"Acting innocently and singing seriously" is the sincere teaching left by Master Yuan Xuefen to the Yue opera people and also to the people of the world, the language is simple and sound. To remember the master, we must not only relive the classic works of art she left behind, but also feel the master's artistic virtues and art from it, and draw the strength of the master's personality.
To this end, the special section will also broadcast four episodes of the character feature film "Listening to Snow". The special topic takes the interviews and speech materials of Master Yuan Xuefen at different times and on different occasions before his death as the main body, and through the narration of the master himself and the memories of his former teachers and disciples, it shows how a little girl in the eastern mountains of Zhejiang has grown into a people's artist of Yue opera who is admired by the mountains and dedicates her life to Yue opera. The special topic tells the story of Yuan Xuefen's self-reliance and self-reliance in the great Shanghai of the Ten Mile Ocean Field, leading the reform of Yue opera; how to pursue progress after the founding of New China and advocate co-performances between men and women; and how to continue to innovate in her later years, paying attention to the theoretical construction of Yue opera and the cultivation of talents.
Yue opera must develop, inherit tradition, and develop even more. This is also the concept that Master Yuan Xuefen has always adhered to before his death. Although she never formally accepted disciples in her lifetime, the disciples of the Yuan Sect were all over the country, and the art of the Yuan Sect was even more thriving in the new era. In the special section, "A Generation of Grandmasters A Hundred Years of Flowing Fangs - Commemorating Yuan Xuefen" and "A Generation of Fenghua - Yue Opera Performance Artist Yuan Xuefen Memorial Session" will focus on the style of Yuan disciples in various places in the form of commemorating the master, showing the confidence of Yue opera people in the new era to continue their traditions, keep their integrity and innovate.