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Since March, the most common messages received by "Shanghai opera people" are "performance cancellation" and "performance refund". Under the epidemic, the inability to enter the theater has even become a source of pressure for many theater lovers.
But Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre and other theater troupes have launched online theater viewing! Let's read the original book and watch the drama while preventing the epidemic at home!
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Peony Pavilion Garden
Du Liniang, the daughter of Nan'an Taishou Du Bao, carried her parents and the school teacher on her back, and Yahuan Chunxiang went to the back garden to swim in the spring, facing the beautiful scenery of the morning, birds and flowers, and could not help but touch the scenery. (Picture and text from Shanghai Kun opera troupe)
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I have never seen Kunqu Opera's "Peony Pavilion Garden Dreams",
Let's take a look at the knowledge points first!
Are "Garden Tours" and "Dreams" two plays?
"Garden Dreams" is a traditional repertoire known for its lyricism. The original book is the tenth play, and the outstanding is "Frightening Dreams". The performance book separates the first half of the show, called "Garden", and the second half of the show is still called "Frightening Dream".
Which singing segments in "Garden Dreams" are particularly outstanding?
The whole play is full of songs and dances. It's full of poetry. He created the image of a boudoir Qianjin Du Liniang who dared to break through feudal etiquette and passionately pursued pure love, and her beautiful appearance. As well as the deep-hidden sichun and huaichun psychology, it has been portrayed realistically and delicately. His outstanding achievements in literature, music and performance have become one of the representative repertoire of Chinese Kunqu opera, and it is a compulsory basic play for the study of Boumen Dan (that is, five days) Tiedan. Among them, [Bubujiao] [Soap Luopao] [Hillside Sheep] and [Mountain Peach Red] are the famous Southern Qu singing sections, which have been popular among the population for four hundred years and have been recited for an enduring period.
What is the plot of the whole play? What's the deeper meaning?
"Garden Tour" begins with Du Liniang and Chun Xiang singing the introduction of the business tune [around the ground]. Du Liniang had never set foot in a garden in the family because she obeyed her mother's admonition. Today is carrying my parents on my back and visiting the garden with Chun Xiang. The song "Around the Ground" shows the excitement that the master and servant could not stop before visiting the garden. This kind of excitement, miss and Yahuan have a clear qualitative difference, Chunxiang is just a simple joy, and Du Liniang is trying to break through the feudal shackles, excitement mixed with timidity. Her beautiful and graceful appearance was revealed for the first time in the same beautiful nature, and she could not help but be ashamed: "How can Bu Xiang Bou bring her whole body to life", singing her characteristic ambivalence. "If you don't go to the garden, how do you know that spring is as promised?" It is Du Liniang's long-term isolation from spring sighs! "A lifetime of love is nature", not only is Du Liniang's love of natural scenery revealed, but also shows her unfairness to the cruel restriction of women's personality by feudal etiquette. Therefore, the picturesque spring color actually caused her sentimentality: "It turns out that Zi Yan is red all over the place, and it seems that all of them are paid with the broken well decadence" "The Shao Guang Zhen of Jinping people", revealing the sharp opposition between etiquette and individual freedom. In "Visiting the Garden", the playwright awakens the youthful vitality of Du Liniang's long-term imprisonment through the charming beautiful spring colors, and further encourages her to boldly pursue the freedom and happiness of love. However, in feudal society, the pursuit of love freedom is impossible, unless it is a dream, so "Garden" will be followed by "Frightening Dream". Du Liniang's secret meeting with the scholar Liu Mengmei in the dream further deepened the ideological significance of the play.
(The above content is from the Chinese Kunqu Dictionary)
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02
Next door to heaven is the lunatic asylum
As night fell, in the office of the dean of the madhouse, a performance was underway that was personally supervised by the dean, planned and participated by patients. Wu Suo, Scruples, Mimi and Li Bai are all identified as crazy and live in a madhouse, Wu Suo is lonely and helpless, scrupulous and timid and cautious, Mimi is kind and tacky, Li Bai is arrogant and arrogant and does not meet, they all live in their own world, simple and naïve. In the world they imagined, different characters appeared in ink, Deputy Director Jia Zheng was depressed due to the cancellation of the meeting, high school student Zhou Wentian went crazy, and lawyer Yang Ren's maternal body culture shock... Although the performance encouraged the patients, it could not satisfy the dean, so the actors began the most absurd leaping action, they wanted to get rid of control and eventually return to the normal society. (Picture and text from Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center)
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"Paradise Next Door is a Lunatic Asylum"
Author: Yu Rongjun
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Yu Rongjun is a gold-medal screenwriter at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. With the style of absurd comedy and the language of fashion and humor, he has created a comedy work full of absurd meaning, showing the spiritual emptiness of some people through the behavior of crazy people, and making a kind satire on the ills of modern civilized society, so that the audience can experience the various confusions of the people in the play in laughter...
Can you understand madness?
03
Capital
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Is capital an angel?
Capital is the devil?
Capital can make us step up to the sky, but also let us fall into the abyss.
Everyone has a capital in their hearts, what is the appearance of capital in your heart?
And look at the capital triangle strong attack, take you into the world of capital! (Picture and text from Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center)
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Capital
Author: Marx
Publisher: Jiangsu People's Publishing House
In this work, Marx used the world outlook and methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism to reveal the laws of economic movement in capitalist society and the laws of the emergence, development and demise of capitalism.
What is capital for you?
04
La Traviata
Verdi pushed the Romantic opera to the peak, and this opera "La Traviata", based on the famous novel of the French writer Dumas, was created in the middle of the 19th century and is one of Verdi's most representative opera works and has become a classic. The film was filmed at the St. Margaret's Open-Air Opera Festival, and the open-air production is extremely magnificent. (Picture and text from Poly Ticketing APP)
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La Traviata
Author: Dumas Jr
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
This book tells the twisted and poignant love story of a young man Armand and Margaret, the most famous socialite of Parisian high society. The work has a strong tragic color and is thought-provoking.
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05
Carmen
In Seville, Spain in 1860, a beautiful and stubborn gypsy girl, Carmen, a tobacco factory worker, met Don José, the captain of the cavalry squad, in a fight with other female workers. Fascinated by her wild beauty and untamed temperament, José not only let Carmen go, but also fell in love with her and lived a wandering life with Carmen. But the good times did not last long, and Carmen later fell in love with the matador Escamiro... (Picture and text from Poly Ticketing APP)
Carmen
Author: Merimé
Publisher: Yunnan People's Publishing House
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