Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client, March 26 (reporter Fan Yaqin correspondent Zheng Qinfang) Chu opera, as a local traditional drama in Hubei Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritage, has been adhering to the "development in inheritance, protection in development". On the 25th, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily found that the Chu opera people in Wuhan have been making unremitting efforts in "inheritance and development" to improve the professional skills of actors with "old with new" and "passing on help".
Chu opera "Sweeping Pine", right is Lu Hongcheng.
Promote the work with drama and train young actors to "go out"
Huangpi is the birthplace of Chu opera, on the 25th, the reporter came to the rehearsal hall of the Chu Opera Troupe in Huangpi District, and the 10 groups of actors of the troupe were performing "Zhou Ren Out of the House", "Zhao Yuzhen Pretending to Be Crazy", "Sweeping Pine", "Losing His Son And Frightening", "Killing four doors", "June Snow", "Hanging Paintings", "Flower Guns" and other plays one by one. Li Qiong, head of the Chu Opera Troupe in Huangpi District, introduced that the troupe selected 8 classic art works to invite well-known experts from provinces and cities to spend nearly 100 days to teach and study special plays, on the one hand, to cultivate the basic skills of young actors, on the other hand, to lay a good foundation for them to "go out" to participate in provincial and municipal competitions in the future. ”
Chu opera "Against the Flower Gun", a row of left He Fei, right lu Hongcheng.
"The biggest gain I gained from this study was to be able to calm down and figure out the role." Lu Hongcheng, who had just finished acting in the Chu opera "Sweeping Pine" and "Flower Gun", told reporters. Paired with old students and clowns, "Sweeping Pine" is a traditional play that attaches equal importance to singing and doing, mainly testing the actor's "hair-raising skills". Lu Hongcheng, who entered the art school at the age of thirteen and has been singing for 20 years, won the 13th Hubei Drama Peony Flower Award in 2021. He Fei, who played "Flower Gun" with Lu Hongcheng, participated in the "Drama Gathering Langfang Ringing China" National Youth Opera Invitational Competition in October 2021, as the only actor from the district and county-level theater troupe, she not only won the affirmation of the on-site expert judges, but also gave a full score to the famous domestic Peking Opera performance artist Wang Peiyu after she performed the Chu opera "Forced to Rest". Compared with the repertoire that He Fei is good at, there are certain requirements for the actor's "Shozi Gong" and "Flower Gun Gong" in "Flower Gun", and she firmly told the reporter with a firm look: "I have confidence in myself and can practice it." ”
Retirement does not retire, the older generation of artists do a good job of "passing on the help"
Shen Yunxiao, a master of Chu opera art, once said, "Stand on your own soil and stretch out your hands." You I learned it, I can't take it away", Zhang Guangming, a national-level actor and Chu opera performance artist, said frankly: "Chu opera is a local drama in Hubei, and it has a long history unlike Peking Opera and Han Opera. Then we Chu opera people must go out of the circle and absorb the classic things of foreign dramas. After retiring, Zhang Guangming mainly engaged in the teaching of opera, this time she taught "Lost Son Crazy", which was adapted from Peking Opera to Chu Opera. Zhang Guangming said: "Opera is to see things, and "Lost Son Crazy" is very exercised in the actor's 'water sleeve skill', which helps to improve the artistic quality of the actor. ”
Chu drama "Lost Son Crazy".
The reporter also saw a gray-haired grandfather at the scene, he is a national first-class actor, Chinese opera performance artist Jia Zhengnan, 80 years old this year, he smiled and told the reporter: "I began to learn "Sweeping Pine" from the age of twelve, and sang on the Chinese opera stage for more than sixty years, which is also my masterpiece. "Adapting a Chinese opera work into a Chu opera work, the singing voice, the recitation, and the music must all change." Jia Zhengnan, who has experience in Chu opera performance, said: "I added a high cavity to the singing cavity, and changed the singing voice to the singing voice of Chu opera. For teaching, Jia Zhengnan said: "It is not easy to come once, each time it is three classes a day, from early education to late. I hope that after the children learn, they will understand and experience on their own, show more to the audience, and gradually improve. ”
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