The red classic Peking Opera "Cuckoo Mountain", Shanghai Peking Opera House has not been performed for ten years, yesterday on the Tiantou Yifu stage re-performed, two and a half hours in one go, the stage is full of palaces, the stage is full of pits and valleys. When the ninth "Long Roll Red Flag" dropped the last note and froze the last shape, the audience applauded in unison. The actors led by the famous Peking Opera actor Shi Yihong closed the curtain as many as four times, and through wonderful performances, the lofty faith and firm belief of the revolutionary ancestors in the red gene were passed on to every audience.
Picture: "Cuckoo Mountain" stills Official picture
Tough and soft is Ke Xiang
The music of "Cuckoo Mountain" is rigid and soft, just like Ke Xiang played by Shi Yihong. As a member of the Communist Party, Ke Xiang's temperament is strong, and when facing the masses, he must connect with them heart-to-heart, and he is soft. The character image is three-dimensional, and her musical image is three-dimensional. Conductor Wang Yongji said that such a combination of rigidity and softness was completed when the composition and orchestration were first composed, and in the second degree of conductor creation, he further enhanced it to show the volume and tone and the change of mood.
The main characters in the play have their own musical themes. With the development of the storyline and the different emotions expressed by the characters, the use of the characters' musical themes also changes, which plays an important role in shaping the character image and the emotions expressed in the singing voice. Every time the character appears, there will be a musical theme, and it is particularly suitable for the character's personality, such as Lei Gang's music theme has a sense of blood, Mother Du's music theme has bright colors, and the traitor Wen Qijiu has more dissonant harmonies.
"Rhododendron Mountain" has "three more": more music, more singing, more gongs and drums. Its music is very different from traditional opera, integrating elements of many local operas, with many and complex rhythms, and strong singing. Even if Shi Yihong has experienced the "devil training" of "Mei Shang Chengxun" twice a day and each double, he still needs to play two hundred percent of the spirit to finish this play.
The audience applauded and looked forward to more performances
"Home in Anyuan", "Proletarians", "Chaotic Clouds"... As soon as the melody of these classic songs sounded, Shi Yihong on the stage could hear the audience singing. After the performance, Shi Yihong was tired and could not hide his excitement: "I didn't expect the audience to be so excited, I think they have a lot of nostalgic plots, they are here to relive the memories of that year." ”
Quite a dense applause, and Shi Yihong led the actors to close the curtain again and again, making the Yifu stage heat wave. The audience did not want to leave for a long time, so Shi Yihong sang "Cuckoo Mountain is deeply forested, and there is room for maneuver" again. For the audience, "Cuckoo Mountain" is highly musical and sings well, even young people can enter the ear.
At the end of the scene, some viewers lamented that "this play should be toured nationwide", and many people were discussing the details of the play. The family chatted as they walked: "Ke Xiang is wearing shackles and fighting with bandits, the chains are not light!" "Shooting down, leaping over mountain streams, and fighting poisonous tongues and guts are all Sister Shi's Martial Arts skills, Sasshuang!" "How did my sister do her slide through the flying stream, and did she grease the soles of her feet?"
While the main actors perform in the core performance area, each supporting actor is also full of drama, always immersed in the characters. Fighting knives and knives see the flesh, and the blood boils under the stage. There are many group scenes in "Cuckoo Mountain", and each stop-motion shape has both beauty and power, conveying the red spirit of the characters in the play who are not afraid of hardship and sacrifice, showing the vitality and charm contained in the red classics.
Always keep the original intention to play the classic
In addition to the main roles of Ke Xiang, Lei Gang, and Mother Du, almost all the members of the "Cuckoo Mountain" lineup "changed blood", and a group of young actors after 80 and 90 in Shangjing provoked the beams. The train runs fast, all thanks to the headband. In the early rehearsals, a group of leading actors who participated in the performance ten years ago appeared in the rehearsal hall, such as Liu Jun, who played Li Shijian, Qi Baoyu, who played Wen Qijiu, Hong Xiaopeng, who played Tian Dajiang, and Yan Qinggu, who played Du Xiaoshan, etc. They carried forward the spirit of "passing on the help" and passed on the performance experience and experience to this group of new actors.
The young actors who are exposed to this play for the first time are also working hard themselves: watching Peking Opera movies or previous performance videos, reading scripts together, discussing and learning, and helping each other to see where they can improve their progress by singing and reading... Pan Zijian, an actor who participated in "Cuckoo Mountain" for the first time, recalled that the first time he sounded the row, Shi Yihong just came out and sang a long time, everyone was boiling with blood, feeling that heroic spirit and inspiring.
Playing Tian Dajiang is Zhao Hongyun, the seventh generation of Shangjing", who has been playing for him these days, leading him into the heart of the character little by little. This time, the actor Sun Wei, who played Li Shijian, said that the red classic repertoire is too charming, and the lines in the play are "defending the position, defending the red flag, and uniting as one!" He was deeply touched: Defending the position is not only to defend the Rhododendron Mountain, but also to defend the revolutionary position; defending the red flag is not only a defense banner, but also a firm adherence to ideals and beliefs.
Tonight, some of the actors in the "Cuckoo Mountain" crew will also participate in another red classic starring Blue Sky, "Wise Tiger Mountain". Hu Xuan, who played Mother Du, played Mother Li in "Wise Tiger Mountain". Hu Xuan said that the two roles she played were the epitome of the poor people, which made her feel that "without the Communist Party, there would be no new China." Every rehearsal and performance is to learn the history of the Party, and every revisit can draw strength and bring new enlightenment. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)