Last night, as the highlight of the "Art Rising Forward" series of performances, the "Yue Ju Golden Generation" Yue opera famous opera series (Yuan Fan version) Yue opera "Liang Zhu" was staged at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. This is the first time that Fan Pai Xiaosheng Zhang Ruihong and Yuan Pai Hua Dan Fang Yafen, who have been in the same window for several years and have been colleagues for more than 20 years, have jointly performed the full book of "Liang Zhu", and it is also a demonstration of the overall strength of the golden generation to the new Mesozoic generation of Shanghai Yue Theatre.
Illustration: (Yuan Fan version) Yue opera "Liang Zhu" was staged last night Courtesy of The Shanghai International Arts Festival Center in China (the same below)
Among the many masterpieces of Yue opera, the influence of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" (hereinafter referred to as "Liang Zhu") is absolutely one of the best. It was the first large-scale color film in New China, and it was a fascinating sight for foreign journalists at the Geneva Conference in 1954. At that time, in order to see the style of the movie "Liang Zhu", some people wandered in front of the movie theater in the early morning. Since then, due to various reasons, Yuan Fan's version of the Yue opera "Liang Zhu" has rarely appeared on the stage.
Liang Zhu can be said to be one of the most well-known folk tales in China, and it is also a well-known Chinese love legend in the world, which can be called the "Romeo and Juliet" of the East. And Yue opera is presented with its affectionate, euphemistic and aesthetic qualities, making this poignant love legend even more moving. Last night, there were not only Aiyue people over the age of eighty who came to the scene, but also college students who were encouraged by their roommates to form a group to watch, and four or five generations of people crowded into a theater to watch "Liang Zhu", and the feelings were also different.
Picture: (Yuan Fan version) Yue opera "Liang Zhu"
More than 20 minutes before leaving the performance, Zhang Xiaoying, who was on crutches, helped Zhou Yanzhi, a 93-year-old mother who was also on crutches, to sit in the left area and greet the neighbor who had arrived early next to him: "I want to take Yi to eat a small Shaoxing again, there are many people, almost late." Unable to see the head, Yi went back to argue. Zhang Xiaoying said that not only are she and her mother a fan of Yue opera, "Ala's entire alley is full of joyful Yue opera." In the past, we used to meet each other to watch plays, but now we are demolishing and moving things, and the old neighbors meet mostly in the theater. "Zhang Xiaoying loves Fan Pai," "Liang Zhu", the Fan Fu Pai partner played on the stage is a little more, this time change Yuan Pai, change the taste. ”
Unlike the veteran theater fans, a group of female students in the front row were discussing the character of Liang Shanbo, and someone issued a "high theory": "If Zhu Yingtai sees Ma Wencai first, the ending is not necessarily yet." "Then the boyfriend didn't have to choose, and it's not now." Even from the perspective of this group of post-00s, Liang Shanbo is not necessarily a good man in their minds, but it does not hinder the charm of opera classics and the appeal of genre singing to them. At the end of the play, someone cried off a pack of tissues and trimmed: "I just think it's a pity for Zhu Yingtai." ”
New beginners cut from the plot, are brought in by the good singing voice, and are infected by the moving performances; while the senior theater fans feel the surprise of "matching at will" in the different interpretations of classic plays and the combination of different genres. The different reactions of people of different ages in a small corner of the audience when watching the opera also reflect the opportunities and opportunities of traditional opera at present. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan)