On the stage, when the revolutionary theme meets Cantonese opera, what kind of effect will it be interpreted? "The Hometown of Chinese Music" Dongguan Daojiao Town created a large-scale original modern Cantonese opera - "Tinder". Last night, "Tinder" was successfully premiered at the Star Theater of Dongguan Cultural Center.
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This original work carefully created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, based on the revolutionary deeds of The Daojiao Revolutionary Martyr Ye Duohui, conquered the audience with its wonderful plot, rich singing voice and beautiful stage effects, won bursts of applause, and received wide acclaim. The performance of "Tinder" is also an important part of the Daojiao "Cantonese Opera Music Art Golden Week" launched on October 13.
"Tinder" adopts an innovative model of co-creation
The thickness of history, the lightness of art, the traditional singing voice, the modern narrative... The reporter felt the literary and artistic charm of this work at the scene. If you are interested in the development and innovation of Cantonese opera, this modern Cantonese opera "Tinder" created by Daojiao cannot be missed.
The main creative lineup of Cantonese opera "Tinder" is strong - led by Liang Yunan, a national first-class screenwriter who has won important awards such as the "Five One Project Award" and "Wenhua Award" of the Central Propaganda Department, Liang Shuqing, a national first-class actor and winner of the 18th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, and Pan Shaoxing, a famous Cantonese opera actor and director, as deputy directors, Huang Jian, a national first-class performer (music design), Xiong Chunhong (stage design), Liu Fengshu (lighting design), Fang Guoliang (makeup design) and so on. He also invited Feng Gangyi, a famous Cantonese opera performance artist and winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award "Second Degree Plum", to perform.
"Tinder" began to brew as early as November 2019, from the formal formation of the creative team to collect materials, organize materials, write scripts to rehearsals, which lasted a year.
The prototype of the protagonist in the play is Ye Duohui, a revolutionary martyr of Daojiao. Although it is a heavy revolutionary theme, "Tinder" is presented in a small way, focusing on the growth and transformation of ordinary people in the grand historical background. Ye Duohui used his revolutionary spirit to ignite the "fire" in the hearts of his father and wife, and let the people around him actively support the revolution and devote themselves to the revolution. The Cantonese opera "Tinder" shows the mark of the big era through the fate of these small characters.
In order to be closer to the historical facts, Liang Yunan and the creative team have come to Guanguan many times to interview, search for the real historical materials of Ye Duohui, and on this basis, they created the script of "Tinder".
In terms of stage presentation, "Tinder" also has the innovative characteristics of modern Cantonese opera, not only has a rich singing voice, but also combines the atmospheric and aesthetic stage structure, adopts fashionable lighting, and even introduces symphonic elements, and strives to meet the appreciation needs of audiences with different preferences.
Liang Yunan: I saw the "tinder" of Cantonese opera in Daojiao
Liang Yunan introduced that this time he and Daojiao Town joined hands to create the Cantonese opera "Tinder", and adopted an innovative cooperation model. After entering Daojiao, the main creative team not only made every effort to create a high-quality drama, but also focused on helping Daojiao's local Cantonese opera talents improve their artistic level.
Most of the main cast members in the play are Daojiao local Cantonese opera talents and members of Daojiao's local music and art clubs.
"What is very rare is that there is a professional-level cantonese opera team in Daojiao Town." Liang Yunan said that in Daojiao, he saw the "tinder" of Cantonese opera.
Because of the abundance of Talents in Daojiao Cantonese Opera, most of the main actors of "Tinder" are professionals of the Daojiao Town Cultural Service Center, and the extras are mostly members of the Daojiao Local Qu Art Society.
With the local actor team as the mainstay, the benefits are obvious, not only to train local actors, but also to restart this drama at any time in the future, through continuous polishing and excellence, so that the Cantonese opera "Tinder" can be active on the stage for a long time and become an "evergreen drama".
And this is also what Liang Yunan hopes - cantonese opera "Tinder" can become a long-term work. He said that although the story of "Tinder" takes place in Daojiao, he hopes that in the future, "Tinder" can go to the whole province and the whole country, so that more people who did not care about Cantonese opera can pay attention to Cantonese opera, so that more people, especially young people, can like Cantonese opera.
The birth of excellent works is inseparable from the deep mass foundation. As the famous "Hometown of Chinese Opera Arts", Daojiao Town currently has 21 registered amateur music clubs, 2 provincial and municipal Cantonese opera (Quyi) creation bases, 1 drama and music association, 1 youth Cantonese opera music training center, and more than 600 Cantonese opera lovers who participate in performance activities all year round. Among them, "Cantonese Opera Opera Golden Week" is a Cantonese opera opera activity brand carefully built by Daojiao Town for many years, and has been held for 18 consecutive years since 2003.
In recent years, Daojiao Town has adhered to the main theme of local themes, actively created a high-quality drama of "applause and applause", and promoted the Dongguan Cantonese opera opera to shine in innovative development, such as "Poverty Alleviation Storm", "Caiju Huisheng", "Warm Old Man's Heart", "Life and Death Signature", "Miao Shan Qing", "Muyu New Singing Happiness Song" and a number of original Cantonese opera opera opera works, which have frequently won provincial and municipal and national awards and attracted much attention.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng Reporter: Shi Zhongqing Correspondent: Dao Jiaoxuan
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Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Cai Dongqing