Jimu news reporter Zhang Cong
Correspondent Ewen Wenwen Liu Chen
Photo by Jimu news reporter Xiao Hao
In 1958, the first row, in October 1959 for the first time into Beijing performance, after that, the national opera "Honghu Red Guards" burned all over the country, in 63 years of time to sing the song of "Honghu Lake water waves" to the world.
After 63 years of acting, "Honghu Red Guards" has welcomed a new chapter.
On September 25th, as the special invited highlight of the 4th "Hubei Arts Festival", Hubei Opera and Dance Theater brought this national opera classic into the Hanxiu Theater, when "Honghu Red Guards" met this show that was three times larger than the traditional theater space, what kind of chemical reaction would occur on the scene?
Scene: Boating on the water for the first time in 63 years, when the applause sounded, there was innovation everywhere
Not only "opera", because of the sense of space and technology content of Hanxiu Theater, "Honghu Red Guards" with the title of "4D Science and Technology Version" is more like a "blockbuster" full of immersive experience.
On the afternoon of the 25th, the "Honghu Red Guard", which lasted for more than two hours, won many applause from the audience. Jimu News reporters found that in addition to the curtain closing and the classic singing passages of the play, the applause was mainly for three segments - the stunt actor restored the "Divine Soldier Heavenly Descent" link from a height of 27 meters; "Han Ying" took a small boat through the "Honghu Lake Water Surface" to sing the "Honghu Lake Water Waves" paragraph; and the Red Guards returned to Peng Jiadun and killed Peng Batian, who was fleeing towards the reeds.
The applause is based on the "science and technology version" "Honghu Red Guards" to give the audience a new sensory experience: the plot paragraph of "Divine Soldiers Descending from Heaven" in the traditional theater version of the Honghu Red Guards uses freehand techniques to show the Red Guards members climbing into the courtyard wall at night, and when they arrive at the scene of the "Science and Technology Edition", the 4 "Red Guards" directly rely on Weiya to really fall from the sky.
The singing part of "Honghu Lake Water Waves" used to use cloud curtains to create a "wave" feeling, and the actors walked through the stage by steps; the National Centre for the Performing Arts version of "Honghu" used the practice of artificially pushing boats to create a scene of boating in Honghu Lake. On the same day, Han Xiu's "science and technology version" "Honghu Red Guards" with the help of the water system of the Han Xiushui Stage made "rafting" a real scene for the first time in 63 years: the sturdy fisherman Hanzi jumped into the water like a flying fish to stir the waves, accompanied by Han Ying's beautiful song of "Honghu Water, Waves, Waves and Waves", the boats swayed on the water, the lotus flowers collected from the lake reflected the smiling faces of the Red Guards, and the picture of "the boat went to cast the net in the early morning, and the fish came back at night" really jumped on the stage.
The different feelings are also the regional characteristics of "the shore of Honghu Lake is hometown" created by large reeds, and the sharp-eyed audience can also see the symphony orchestra and folk music orchestra behind the invisible reeds - it is reported that this is also the first time that "Honghu Red Guards" has transferred the orchestra from the orchestra below the traditional theater stage to the same performance plane as the actors; and the National Orchestra has joined the orchestra for the first time, enriching the soundtrack of the "science and technology version" of "Honghu Red Guards" together with the symphony orchestra.
Behind the scenes: Before the "Waves of Honghu Lake" is sung, the heroine needs to run around the field for most of the time
With high-altitude equipment and a huge water system, and at the same time three times larger than the traditional stage, the new stage brings a new visual experience to the "technology version" of "Honghu Red Guards" and brings new challenges to the actors.
After the premiere, Ma Yaqin, the heroine of "Honghu Red Guards" and the fourth generation of "Han Ying", told Jimu News that because the space of hanxiu theater is too large, she has made adjustments from voice control, physical reserves and performance details.
"Compared to traditional theater performances, this version requires my singing and vocal use to be more exaggerated." Ma Yaqin mentioned that in the Han Show, the distance between the audience and the actors is even farther, "In the traditional theater, the audience in the first few rows can see the expressions of the actors, such as anxiety, excitement, tears... But the first row of this theater may not be visible. She said that the huge space makes "Honghu Red Guards" really return to the category of "opera", "we can only rely on sound expression to restore the story and convey emotions, which is a huge test for how we use our voices." ”
The test is not only the voice - the traditional stage is obscured by the curtain, the "backstage" on the stage of the Han Show "does not exist", "its entire stage is a large plane, open and unobstructed, equivalent to us 360 degrees in front of the audience, before we can relax in the background, side stage, but this performance at any angle, even if it is a small corner, need me to 'bring the play on the stage', can not let the audience see the actors have a lax look." ”
There is also physical fitness. On the traditional stage, before "Honghu Lake Water Waves" is sung, "Han Ying" only needs to wear from the left side of the backstage to the right side and then sing, and the straight-line distance is no more than 20 meters. But in Han Xiu, "Han Ying" needs to move from the main stage to the water stage and then go rafting, and the distance between this is almost half a circle around the Han Show Theater, at least a few hundred meters, "The music time for me to prepare is only so long, I can only change clothes while running, I can't stop and then get on the boat to sing, the challenge is still quite big." ”
In addition to the actors of the provincial song, this time, 15 male actors from the Hanxiu Theater also participated in the performance of the "science and technology version" "Honghu Red Guards". In an interview with Jimu News, Zhang Zhen, a 26-year-old acrobat who is responsible for the "Divine Soldier Descending from Heaven" and other links, mentioned that compared with Han Xiu's simple acrobatic skill performance, the performance of "Honghu Red Guards" needs more performance skills, and "post-95" he said that he was honored to participate in the performance of this national opera, "My parents like this opera very much, after hearing that I participated in the performance, they said that they must come to see it these two days!" ”
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