2021-04-23 13:38
For more than a month, the Shanghai Peking Opera House has been busy, and they are rehearsing a big play, "Rhododendron Mountain". This play is known as a peak of the model play, and the heroine Ke Xiang is the famous Meipai Qingyi Shi Yihong. Shi Yihong is deeply impressed by the true legend of Mei Pai, and once sang all the four major schools of Mei Shang Cheng Xun in one day at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and his skills shocked the pear garden. This "Cuckoo Mountain" is her favorite modern play, but it is also extremely difficult, and she has polished it for twenty years.
Shi Yihong has the ability to conquer people with a single sentence. Before the appearance of "Cuckoo Mountain", I did not see his person first, a sentence "proletariat waiting to watch the terrifying waves", there is a thunderous momentum, and it is gentle and ever-changing, clear and pleasant, rushing into the clouds, and sneaking into people's hearts.
The play "Cuckoo Mountain" is not among the eight model plays, it is a play polished after experiencing eight model plays and accumulating rich experience. Shi Yihong spoke highly of the play, believing that the play had entered a milestone in Chinese Peking Opera musicals, it had all the elements of musical theater, and incorporated many techniques of Peking Opera, especially the recitation of "Cuckoo Mountain", which was musical and had poetic lines.
In the early 1960s, Wang Shuyuan, a screenwriter at the Shanghai Opera House, released the script "Rhododendron Mountain", which he had devoted several years of painstaking efforts to ten major changes, which soon appeared on the drama stage, causing a sensation, and soon derived the Peking Opera version and the commentary version, and in 1974, it was made into a movie and became a literary and artistic work that swept hundreds of millions of people.
The movie "Rhododendron Mountain" tells the story of after the Autumn Harvest Uprising, when the party organization sent Ke Xiang to the Rhododendron Mountain on the border of Xianggan and Gansu to lead a spontaneous peasant self-defense army. Ke Xiang served as the party representative of the Self-Defense Army, which propagated the party's policies, united the masses, purified the ranks, defeated the landlords' armed forces, and successfully reorganized this peasant self-defense army into the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. After the film was released, Yang Chunxia, who played Ke Xiang, immediately became the "goddess of the whole people", and "Ke Xiangtou" was also the favorite hairstyle of women at that time.
"Cuckoo Mountain" is a modern drama, but it is deeply rooted in traditional drama, all the footwork, body shape, singing, reading, doing, playing, four skills and five methods are integrated into it, rehearsing it is extremely difficult, especially the heroine Ke Xiang must have a good image, a tall figure, both literary and martial arts, can sing and fight, in line with such harsh requirements, can play this role can be described as a rare corner, and Wu Dan was born, and Shi Yihong, who was born in Mei Pai, can be described as unique.
Shi Yihong began to learn drama at the age of 10, by chance, he was carefully guided by Zhang Meijuan, Lu Wenqin and many other famous teachers of the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre, coupled with Ken's stupid kung fu, he quickly stood out, and in his early 20s he won the Plum Blossom Award, the highest award in Chinese theater performing arts.
This rehearsal of "Cuckoo Mountain", Shi Yihong still put a lot of effort into reading white, modern drama of reading white and traditional drama have a lot of differences, Shi Yihong remembers, in 2001, when the first rehearsal of this play, just read the lines, it caused a burst of laughter, it turned out that the dan corner of traditional Peking Opera is not to speak in the voice, and in modern drama, Shi Yihong wants to use the voice combined with the small voice to read the white, more in line with the character setting.
Compared with the first performance 20 years ago, Shi Yihong himself felt that this time the performance was slowly solidified. The understanding of Ke Xiang is getting deeper and deeper, you can put aside a lot of technical things and walk into the characters, and at this time, the audience sees Ke Xiang, and the actor himself has been hidden behind.
The Shangjing version of "Rhododendron Mountain" has not been performed many times, and it has only been performed twenty times in the past twenty years, but each performance has received a warm response, which is both an audiovisual feast and a spiritual baptism. Shi Yihong said that the charm of Peking Opera is infinite, it has both beauty and heritage, and the predecessors have created many great works of art, whether it is inheritance or innovation, it is the responsibility to do it well. On the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Party, "Rhododendron Mountain" will be staged several times in Shanghai, and if you want to appreciate the subtleties of modern Peking Opera, don't miss this big drama.
(Look at the news Knows reporter Cai Liang, Xia Qi, Xu Jin, Wu Zhenhua, Zhang Qi, Gao Yuan)