A few days ago, the press conference of the 10th anniversary of the Beijing Peking Opera Company's "Dream Seeking Chengze" was held at the Beijing Overseas Cultural Exchange Center.
"Seeking Dreams, Chengze" means "seeking the dream of prosperity of Peking Opera and inheriting the grace of the predecessors and sages". As a brand project of Beijing Peking Opera Company, "Dream Seeking Chengze" takes the search for roots, adherence to tradition, and tribute to the sages as the leading ideology, and excavates, sorts out, and stages traditional old operas as the work content, aiming to explore the endogenous power of Peking Opera art and cultivate a new generation of opera fans. Since 2014, "Dream Seeking Chengze" has performed a total of 93 performances, and staged a total of 48 traditional old dramas. From May to December this year, "Dream Hunting Chengze" will be performed 13 times at the Chang'an Grand Theater. On May 25th and 26th, the classic repertoire "Bead Curtain Village" and "The Legend of the White Snake" will be sung, and the meaning of paying tribute to the continuation is self-evident. Ten years ago, when the "Dream Seeking Chengze" project was launched, the first work performed was "Bead Curtain Village".
After ten years of hard work, the leading actors of the Beijing Peking Opera Company, Du Zhenjie and Zhang Huifang, have cooperated with pianist Ai Bing and drummer Liu Yang for a long time, so that "Dream Seeking Chengze" has achieved good results in repertoire excavation and talent training, and has also gained the support of many theater fans and audiences. "The more I dig, the more I feel that these skills cannot be lost, and the so-called 'one play, one taste, one person, one look' is exactly this truth." Du Zhenjie said. He and Zhang Huifang reached a consensus at the beginning of the project that they should not only watch videos but also learn from teachers when excavating old dramas. "I can only meet the audience if I learn well, and I demand myself as a newcomer." Zhang Huifang said that the ten years she has gone through with the "Dream Seeking Chengze" project have been a precious decade for her to continue to make progress in art.
The performances of the "Dream Seeking Chengze" project have spread all over the country, and many young audiences have become attached to Peking Opera, injecting fresh blood into the promotion and inheritance of the quintessence of the country. They set up a "Du Douer" fan group, which includes both college students and leaders from various industries and fields. The 10th anniversary logo of "Dream Chengze" was designed by Yang Sitao, a member of the fan group and designer, in the pattern, the four characters of "Dream Chengze" are surrounded by a lantern, and the number "10" is formed at the same time, symbolizing the journey of "Dream Chengze" for Peking Opera art in the past ten years. At the press conference, Du Zhenjie and Zhang Huifang jointly unveiled the LOGO, leaving a warm moment when the artist and the audience rushed to each other.