At the 2020 New Year's Eve Gala of Station B, the traditional opera program "Surprise Hong" stunningly mixed and matched the classic singing segments of six kinds of operas, quickly "out of the circle" and triggered heated discussions. As a traditional Chinese theatrical form, opera has charm in every move and style, and it is very customary to smile and laugh, and it blooms its own unique charm on the modern stage.
From March to May, Nanjing Poly Grand Theatre will bring a number of classic opera repertoire: Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Theater (Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe) classic Yue opera "Liang Zhu" and "Five Girls Baishou", the famous Peking Opera performance artist Li Shengsu starred in the traditional classic Peking Opera drama "Phoenix Returns to the Nest" and Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu starring "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", so that more Nanjing opera lovers can feel the rhyme of opera at close range and appreciate the style of national essence.
Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Theater (Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe) Yue Opera , "Five Girls Worship Shou" stills
"Hundred Flowers" bloomed, and "Liang Zhu" and "Five Daughters Worship Shou" reproduced the classics of Yue opera
The Yue opera "Liang Zhu" and "Five Daughters Worship Shou" are well-known classics for many years. With the fan metaphor of butterflies, the rebirth of butterflies, the poignant love story in the new version of "Liang Zhu" is moving; the genre singing voice is wonderful, and the vivid and interesting character images in "Five Girls Worship Shou" are fascinating.
On March 11-12, 2021, the Yue opera "Liang Zhu" and "Five Daughters Baishou" performed by Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Theater (Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe) will be staged successively at Nanjing Poly Grand Theater.
It is worth mentioning that on March 12, Cai Zhefei, a national first-class actor and winner of the "Plum Blossom Award", will take the stage at the Nanjing Poly Grand Theater to help the Yue opera "Five Girls Worship Shou", playing the role of Zou Shilong. From more than 30 years of art, Cai Zhefei has starred in many excellent plays, she is Sasuke in "The Legend of Chunqin", Zhang Sheng in "The Tale of the West Chamber", Qian Li in "Wu Yue Wang"... She has a solid foundation, both literature and martial arts, virtue and art, and is a new generation leader of Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe, and has won the 29th Chinese Drama "Plum Blossom Award" and the 12th Wenhua Performance Award of the Ministry of Culture.
Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu, a traditional classic drama of Peking Opera, starred in the stills of "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang"
Led by Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu, "Phoenix Returns to the Nest" and "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" are good dramas
On May 1-2, 2021, the traditional classic peking opera dramas "Phoenix Returns to the Nest" and "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" will be staged on the stage of Nanjing Poly Grand Theater.
A troupe of the National Peking Opera House brought together famous Peking Opera performance artists Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu to show the style of Peking Opera. The Peking Opera "Phoenix Returns to the Nest" is adapted by Mei Lanfang based on the Qing Palace collection of "Cycle Sequence", which runs through the coincidences and misunderstandings full of comedic overtones from beginning to end, and is clever and witty.
Among them, cheng Xue'e's several large singing voices are gorgeous and chic, such as songs, which are widely circulated in Mei Pai's singing voice. The "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" is known as "auspicious opera" in the Peking opera circle, which is a classic traditional drama that people must order and family-style when they set up a stage to sing during the New Year's Festival.
What has attracted much attention is that Yu Kuizhi, who starred in Hong Gong and Liu Bei this time, is known as "the leading figure of peking opera art today", while Li Shengsu, who starred in Cheng Xue'e and Sun Shangxiang, is the leader of the troupe of the National Peking Theatre, which can be called the most glorious representative of the Mei (Lanfang) school of art today. In 2020, the traditional drama "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" was loved by the audience of the three generations of old, middle-aged and young people when it appeared on the stage of Nanjing Poly Grand Theatre, and the amazing performances of Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu made the fans and friends of the live drama addicted. Inheriting the essence of the country and the good drama, the two fully cooperated "Phoenix Returns nest" and "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" are worth looking forward to again.
It is understood that the two performances of "Phoenix Returning to the Nest" and "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" are both subsidized by the government of Nanjing Cultural Tourism, and the purchase of tickets can enjoy government subsidies, providing affordable and people-friendly Peking Opera events for Nanjing opera lovers.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping
Source: Purple Cow News