On the evening of October 20, the Ningbo Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe performed "Dream of the Red Chamber" at the Jiangsu Grand Theatre, despite the cold weather and cold rain, many audiences still walked into the theater and enjoyed a covenant of the Red Chamber.
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There are many opera works that have changed according to "Dream of the Red Chamber", and there are multiple versions, each with its own differences. Ningbo Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe's "Dream of the Red Chamber" is the work of the troupe's town group and is the most loved by the audience. The Yue opera version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" consists of eight scenes, starting from Lin Daiyu's first entry into Jia Province, unfolding layer by layer around Bao Dai's love line, and finally Dai Yu burning the manuscript and dying, and Bao Yu's escape. I will make some brief remarks from this edition alone.
Zhang Xiaojun plays Jia Baoyu, pan Qiaoqiao plays Lin Daiyu, and the cast is strong. The feminine and gentle Yue opera singing voice is the most suitable for expressing the pure and touching and tear-inducing love tragedy between Bao Dai, and the gorgeous and exquisite stage setting shows that Jia Fu is "different from other places", and the exquisite and elegant makeup costumes add color to the character performance. The whole theater is full of the strong sound of Jiangnan charm, and the audience's emotions rise and fall with the work, and it seems that there is a swirling infectious atmosphere flowing secretly. This edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has become a classic, and its advantages are beyond description. In addition, there are two points worth studying and discussing.
First, artistic adaptations from literary masterpieces to stage works retain a large number of contrasting techniques. Readers who have read the works of "Dream of the Red Chamber" generally know that Cao Gong is good at using contrasts, and a large number of contrasts are also used in the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber", which is cleverly highlighting the characters and shaping the atmosphere.
In contrast to the character settings, Xue Baochao advised Jia Baoyu to study hard and seek fame, and Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu read the "West Chamber" together in the garden. Raiders and Qingwen also have the meaning of contrast, attacking people urge Baoyu to read books and not let the old man blame, but Qingwen does not prevent Baoyu from drawing eyebrows for himself.
The contrast of character personalities, Bao Chao persuades Bao Yu, Bao Yu's attitude towards Bao Chao has changed, Bao Chao still maintains everyone's girly temperament, and borrows the mouth of the attacker to say that if Dai Yu is absolutely angry. Baoyu was beaten, Xue Baochao came to visit Baoyu, the two went inside to read the poem, laughing loudly, while Daiyu was alone because Qingwen did not hear that it was Daiyu's voice that did not open the door, and hid her face and wept. BaoChao insisted on catering to the mainstream values of society at that time, and Daiyu's sensitive and arrogant temperament pursued her own individual feelings, and the personalities of the two characters formed a sharp contrast.
The contrast of emotional rendering, when everyone visited the garden, Jia Mu praised Xue Baochao for being stronger than several of her sisters, everyone laughed and laughed, and then immediately Dai Yu was alone with a flower hoe to bury the flowers, seeing Luo Ying full of feelings that he was helpless under the fence, in front of which was the joy of everyone, followed by the sadness of one person, overlapping. When Dai Yu was dying, Dai Yu and Zi Juan both cried and sang, the music was mournful and sad, but from time to time there was a festive sound, and the color of the background also appeared twice to represent the festive red, the distance was a lively wedding, and the near side was a sad death, which further set off the loneliness and desolation of Dai Yu Xiang when yu Xiang died.
In the final analysis, so many ingenious comparisons in the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber" are still attributed to Cao Xueqin, and it is also thanks to the dexterous selection and retention of the editors and creators at that time when adapting, which has achieved a classic work and has been sung for decades.
Second, the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber" only takes Bao Dai's love as the main line and does not show the rise and fall of Jia Fu. This is the biggest difference between opera works and literary works. "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a huge work, which cannot be fully presented on the opera stage, and it is bound to show only some characters and plots. The opera works retain only one of the main threads, Bao Daiqing, and the retained characters also serve this clue. Of course, looking back at history, showing love is the safest and most appropriate presentation content in the social environment at that time. However, only this clue is not "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the rise and fall of Jia Fu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" can express the rise and fall of the times. Cao Xueqin "approved for ten years, added and deleted five times", in order to write the meaning of rise and fall, rather than Bao Dai's love. If we can express the original intention of "Dream of the Red Chamber" on the basis of the stage of the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber" for decades, whether the intention of the work can be further sublimated, and the sense of thickness and value of the work can also be increased.
A song of the Red Chamber is sung, the flowers disappear dreams, love and hate become empty, and only Bao Dai's love and rise and fall can reverberate in the corridor of history for a long time.
Correspondent Gu Yu
Proofread sheng yuanyuan
Source: Purple Cow News
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