Original title: Reliving Red Memories and Continuing the Inheritance of Opera (Theme)
——The 9th Wuhan "Opera Wharf" Chinese Opera Art Festival Ended Successfully (Subtitle)
The background of the big era and the emotional entanglement of the small people are integrated, and the fate of the Hui opera artists and the fate of the opera are intertwined, weaving a magnificent cultural history. On the evening of October 7th, with the end of the performance of the Hui opera "Hui Ban" in Wuhan Theater in Wuhan, Hubei Province, the 9th Wuhan "Drama Dock" Chinese Opera Art Festival came to a successful conclusion.
Sponsored by the People's Government of Wuhan Municipality, Hubei Province, organized by the Publicity Department of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and executed by Wuhan Performance Co., Ltd. and Wuhan Theater Co., Ltd., the Wuhan "Drama Wharf" Chinese Opera Art Festival has always been characterized by famous troupes and famous artists, with the goal of inheriting excellent traditional opera culture, promoting the innovation of opera culture exchanges, enriching and enlivening the opera performance market in Wuhan, and promoting the prosperity and development of Wuhan "Opera Wharf", and continuously polishing the Wuhan "Opera Wharf" performance brand.
Since the opening of the festival on September 15, the festival has launched 20 performances in 10 dramas of Peking Opera, Huangmei Opera, Commentary, Qin Cavity, Hui Opera, Fujian Opera, Changsha Flower Drum Opera, Han Opera and Chu Opera, which are divided into theater performances, new star competitions, line performances and other units, bringing together 13 winners of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, including Wang Yushu, Cheng Cheng and Wan Xiaohui.
According to reports, the ticket price setting of this art festival follows the principle of benefiting the people, and arranges some free public welfare tickets, many audiences enter the theater to watch performances, and the online stage broadcast unit attracts many netizens. At the same time, this year's art festival also opened the "Greater Wuhan Unique Drama" and "The Ninth Wuhan 'Opera Dock' Chinese Opera Art Festival" vibrato and Weibo topics, of which the topic of "Light Up the Rising Star Project" continued to occupy the seventh place in the city's hot search list once it was disseminated, attracting 37.81 million netizens and fans.
This year's festival closely follows the theme of the centenary of the founding of the party
An immersive neon theatre created by this year's festival
"Post-00s" interprets the youth version of the Chinese drama "The Legend of the White Snake"
There are good plays in the theater
A total of 7 plays were performed at the Wuhan Theater, namely the youth version of the Chu opera "Wanli Tea Ceremony", the Huangmei opera "Five Girls Worshiping Shou", the Peking opera "Red Lantern", the Hui opera "Hui Ban", the youth version of the Chu opera "Jailer Ping wrong", the youth version of the Peking opera "Chen Sanliang", and the youth version of the Han opera "The Legend of the White Snake". 7 plays in 5 genres not only have classics interpreted by famous artists, but also have the youth inheritance of the Rising Star Project.
Wuhan Chu Theater's performance of the youth version of the Chu opera "Wanli Tea Ceremony", which integrates the unique Yingshan cavity, picking mulberry tone, high cavity, immortal cavity, etc. in the Chu opera, is the creative repertoire with the most performances in the past 10 years, the widest tour area in the country and the largest number of audiences. The lead actor Yu Weigang won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award for his play, and it was the "Shen Mei Version" that participated in this year's festival.
The Huangmei opera "Five Daughters Worship Shou" brought by Hubei Provincial Opera Art Theater is a classic play. In this play, the audience sees a wonderful group play, led by Cheng Cheng, the winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award.
The modern Peking Opera "Red Lantern" brought by the Peking Opera House in Hubei Province, co-performed by Wang Xiaochan and Wan Xiaohui, winners of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, brought the audience back to those magnificent years. The play celebrates the mainstay role of the Chinese Communist Party in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
The Hui ban brought by the Huijing Theater in Anhui Province is divided into 6 scenes of "Farce", "Deception Drama", "Prison Drama", "Fighting Drama", "Talking Drama" and "Beijing Class", through the survival of an ordinary Huiban in a specific historical period, it interprets the benevolence, kindness, self-improvement and courage to innovate in the process of Peking Opera transformation such as "The Dispute of Flowers and Elegance" and "The Confluence of Hui and Han".
A good drama stirred up wuhan's "drama dock" and made the fans and friends of the play addicted. It is worth mentioning that this year's art festival is the first large-scale literary and artistic activity after 20 months of renovation and upgrading of Wuhan Theater. The appearance is "repaired as old", retaining the unique style of combining the Su-style architectural pattern with the details of the Chinese garden; the inner is comprehensively improved, solving the drainage, optimizing the parking space, reducing the number of seats, and carrying out acoustic and lighting transformation with "embroidery kung fu". The newly upgraded theater environment also greatly enhances the audience's viewing experience.
In October, the Wuhan Theater will also be unveiled as one of the main venues of the 17th China Theatre Festival.
"Cloud" appreciates the classic study of party history
This year is a major moment for the centenary of the Communist Party of China and the historical intersection of the "two hundred years", closely following the theme of the centenary of the founding of the party, this year's art festival launched the "I learn party history in the play" and "cloud performance" platform, planning the "study party history" series of opera performances, continuing the red blood, carrying forward the red culture, stimulating patriotic feelings, and presenting gifts to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
Peking opera "Daughter of the Party", Han opera "Red Detachment of Women", Chu opera "Xiang Police", commentary drama "Revolutionary Family", Fujian opera "Life", Huang mei opera "Yingzi", Qin Cavity "Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang", Changsha flower drum drama "Peach Blossom Smoke and Rain", one after another revolutionary theme plays, interpreting one touching and deep red story after another, praising heroes who have not changed their true colors. These excellent red operas have been put on the "cloud" and broadcast on Platforms such as Weibo, Yi Live, and WeChat Public Account.
At the same time, this year's festival also invites wang Rongrong, Zeng Zhaojuan, Li Xiaoxiong and other opera masters to carry out lectures on the history of the party. The content of the lecture revolves around the works, guides the audience to appreciate the history of the party in xiqu middle school, stimulates the enthusiasm of the vast number of opera fans to love the party and the country, and praises the glorious course and great achievements of the Communist Party of China in the past century.
Use red opera to cultivate patriotic feelings, reproduce the glory years, carry out party history study and education in the form of literature and art, and guide theater fans and audiences to understand party history in edutainment and fun. The majority of netizens have left messages saying that in their online viewing and interaction, they have enhanced their ideological consciousness and action consciousness of "listening to the party, feeling the gratitude of the party, and following the party".
Pear Garden Newcomer Shine Wharf
The cultivation of opera talents is the foundation for the development and continuation of opera art, and attracting young people to pay attention to opera art and inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture can promote the sustainable development of the opera industry.
This year's festival helps the cultivation of local talents, boosts the popularity of new stars in the "Drama Pier", and creates a new star competition activity of launching the "Liyuan Newcomer Yi Pier", so that the development of Wuhan 'Opera Wharf' is younger, more opera stars are discovered, and young opera performers from Wuhan Peking Theatre, Wuhan Chu Theatre and Wuhan Han Theatre are invited to carry out 6 performance activities.
Wuhan Peking Opera House performed the youth version of Peking Opera "Chen Sanliang", Wuhan Chu Theater launched one of the most popular classic plays "Prison Guards To Settle Grievances", and the youth version of Chinese opera "The Legend of the White Snake" was launched by Wuhan Han Theater, and the young actors of various theaters and troupes provoked beams and performed wonderfully. In addition, they also brought 3 folding opera performances in the "Neon Theater" theater dock landscape group outside the Wuhan Theater.
Valuable stage experience, large-scale performance experience, and the competitive form of "you sing and I appear" have helped the growth of these young talents. Cheng Jun, who played Xu Xian in the youth version of the Chinese opera "The Legend of the White Snake", said: "In the past, when we participated in the 'Drama Pier' Chinese Opera Art Festival, we were all running dragon sets or small roles, which was the first time we participated as the protagonist. ”
According to reports, this year's art festival has built a powerful publicity platform for these opera rising stars, and carried out all-round promotion and publicity through the packaging forms of "two micro and one shake" and "short video + graphic poster", stimulating the vitality of the inheritance and development of excellent traditional opera and promoting the prosperity and development of China's excellent traditional culture. Taking the Douyin platform as an example, the promotional video launched for 6 young actors has a total of more than 2 million views.
Immersed in the accumulation of thousands of years of excellent Chinese traditional culture, but also everywhere reflects the latest achievements of "creative transformation and innovative development" of opera in the new era, the ninth Wuhan "Opera Wharf" Chinese Opera Art Festival has feelings and temperature, both close to life and at the forefront of the times.
(The text and pictures of this article are provided by Wuhan Theatre)