On the evening of August 30, the classic national opera "Sister Jiang" (2021 edition), which was rearranged and performed by the China Opera and Dance Theater, came to an end at the Tianqiao Art Center Coliseum. The curtain fell, the applause sounded, and Wang Ying, who had been under pressure for two months, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Since its premiere in 1964, the opera "Sister Jiang" has been passed down by generations of artists and has been sung to this day, and has long become a well-known national opera classic. For the soprano singer Wang Ying, although she has been married several times, it is the first time that she has fully interpreted "Sister Jiang" on the stage.
"The pressure is really too much!" Before the performance, when she saw the Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter, Wang Ying couldn't help but say. Familiarizing herself with such a well-known classic in just two months is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges wang ying has faced since her career.
Overcoming the personality difference and stepping over the performance barriers, the two-month "devil training" made Wang Ying's understanding of Sister Jiang have undergone a huge change, and fell in love with this role, "Before this, my impression of Sister Jiang was only a heroine who preferred to die, and when she really walked into her world, she found that she was such a vivid woman, loving her husband, loving children, loving life, and her image was plump and real. ”
Deep roots In the 1990s, I met "Sister Jiang"
Although it is the first time to play "Sister Jiang", for Wang Ying, the role of Sister Jiang is not unfamiliar, and it can even be said that it has a deep origin. As early as 1999, Wang Ying served as the singer of the ending theme song in the TV series "Red Rock" played by Song Chunli. At that time, director He Qun was in the late stage of the production of the computer room, one night, he happened to hear the beautiful music coming from the next machine room, he walked along the sound and found that the director Ding Sheng was editing the MV of the song "A Lark Flying from the Barracks", and the singer of this song was Wang Ying. He Qun did not know the fledgling girl on the screen, but was impressed by her righteous face and thick and agile voice. Wang Ying was then invited to sing the ending song of the TV series "Red Rock", "You Hurry Away". "I was a young singer at the time, and it was a really good opportunity for me, so I gladly accepted it." Since then, Wang Ying and "Sister Jiang" have become friends.
Due to the classic status of the opera "Sister Jiang", many of its singing segments are widely circulated and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As a soprano singer who has been practicing for many years, Wang Ying is very familiar with these singing segments, and she has performed well-known classic songs such as "Red Meizan", "Embroidered Red Flag" and "People of Wuzhou Laughing Together" in symphony concerts for many times, and brought these classic passages into the classroom and told to the students. It is precisely because of her dignified appearance and expressive voice that Wang Ying won the opportunity to perform the opera "Sister Jiang".
Devil Training Washing your face and brushing your teeth are memorizing lines
As a revolutionary female figure, Sister Jiang is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and her spirit has touched and inspired generations of audiences. Getting such a classic role is a great opportunity for young people who are just starting out, and it is a real pressure for Wang Ying, a famous soprano singer who has won the reputation of "beautiful bel canto" in the industry. "I was acting in "Sister Jiang" for the first time, and the amount of lines in this play was very large, and the preparation time was very short, and it was very difficult to eat the feelings of the characters thoroughly."
As a soprano singer active in the domestic screen and song world, Wang Ying is very confident in her singing, but due to the short time, she is not too familiar with the lines, performance, stage scheduling and the grasp of the character's comprehensive feelings, and she still needs to work hard.
On June 22, Wang Ying finished the performance of the musical "Beijing Story" and threw herself into the preparation of "Sister Jiang", and there were only more than two months on the day of the performance. In Wang Ying's words, these two months can really be described as "devil-style training." Because there are many slogan-style lines in the play, Sister Jiang is particularly passionate when she speaks to her comrades-in-arms, and she needs to express her feelings with full emotion, which is in strong contrast with Wang Ying's usually calm and soft tone in private, "So I wash my face and brush my teeth and think about this character and find feelings." Sister Jiang is an underground party, I sometimes talk at home to find this very vigilant feeling, and even sleep at night with the music and lines of "Sister Jiang" to wake up, I feel that I am magical. ”
Excellence The director and conductor are very helpful
In order to better interpret the role of Sister Jiang, Wang Ying was meticulous in the rehearsal process, and every detail had to be refined. She admitted that in this process, director Wang Xiaoying and conductor Xu Zhijun gave her a lot of help.
"Xu Zhi is very familiar with this drama, and his understanding of Sister Jiang's spirit of sacrificing her life and dying for the cause of the communist revolution is particularly thorough, and in the discussion with him, I have been greatly inspired." Director Wang Xiaoying's suggestion is more meticulous, "Director Wang is very serious and meticulous in doing things, and he will arrange the subtle performances to the fullest." "In a scene where Sister Jiang and Fu Zhigao are fighting wits and courage, director Wang Xiaoying refines Wang Ying's performance to the point of twirling the hair on the comb." At the beginning, I reflected Sister Jiang's momentum on her head and chest, doing it more deliberately, and the director guided me to pay attention to my inner performance and not stick to the surface. He helped me a lot with my performances. Although he is a theater director, he knows music very well, and can closely combine performance and music, and grasp it very accurately. ”
Wang Ying's personality is very similar to Sister Jiang, she was stubborn from a young age, and was rated as the "Sister Jiang" in the family, so that this time she starred in Sister Jiang, and was laughed at by her sister as "the true color". But in fact, when Wang Ying really walked into this role, she found that Sister Jiang was not only a stubborn heroine who was stubborn in her heart and was particularly strong in encountering severe torture, she was a woman with flesh and blood, "She is a wife and mother." After Sister Jiang saw her husband being killed in the second scene, the singing of the liver and intestines gave me a great touch, this heroic character is very plump, flesh and blood, love and righteousness. ”
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting
Editor/Bow Lifang