"This year is the 16th year that we have sent dramas to Shanghai, every year we 'go up the mountains and go to the sea', Foshan and Shanghai are definitely going to go, and have become 'inspection-free' hospital groups." Yesterday, Jiang Jianguo, president of the Huangmei Drama Theater in Anhui Province, gave two lectures at the Sinan Mansion and the Oriental Art Center, along with Wu Yaling, a famous Huangmei opera artist, who made money for the Huangmei opera "Tianxian Match" and "Thunderstorm" that will be staged in the 12th Oriental Famous Drama Month. Seeing the young faces on the stage, Jiang Jianguo smiled and said: "I am not a national-level actor now, but a national-level salesman." ”
Picture: Huang Mei drama "Tianxian Match" official picture
"The birds in the trees are in pairs, and the green water and green mountains are smiling." This familiar tune has almost become synonymous with Huangmei opera. So far, "Heavenly Immortals" has not only not faded with the passage of time, but has become more and more popular with singing. "Tianxian Match" and "Female Horse" are the reserved plays of Huangmei Opera, which are often performed on the stage, but Huangmei Opera cannot be without new plays and newcomers, so this time the famous drama Moon is matched with a traditional drama "Tianxian Matching" and a new drama "Thunderstorm". In addition to the four "plum blossoms" Jiang Jianguo, Wu Yaling, He Yun, Huang Xinde, there are also excellent young actors Yuan Yuan, Zhao Zhangwei and so on.
On April 2, "Tianxian Match" was first staged in Dongyi, with Yuan Yuan playing the Seven Fairies and Zhao Zhangwei playing Dong Yong. Yuan Yuan has just turned 30 years old and has been with HuangMei Opera for more than 20 years. Zhao Zhangwei also came step by step in this way, and when he finally received this classic role, it can be described as "excited and wandering". The audience is too familiar with this role and this play, and how to pass on this play qualifiedly is a great responsibility for him, so he finds various videos and picture materials, carefully studies the script, analyzes the personality of the characters in the play, and better creates theatrical roles.
Picture: Huang Mei drama version of the "Thunderstorm" poster official picture
Shanghai audiences are familiar with the drama and the Shanghai opera "Thunderstorm", and the Huangmei opera version of "Thunderstorm" on April 3 has many new changes, such as the curtain opening, the Huipai-style building and patio come into view, and for example, with Zhou Ping as the main perspective, all the dramatic conflicts revolve around the inner distress and soul struggle of this character, highlighting his repentance of original sins and yearning for the light. Based on the rigorous adaptation logic, Jiang Jianguo described this play as measuring it with a ruler, and formulated two premises at the beginning of the creation: first, in opera, it cannot be simply copied and copied, and the text adaptation needs to pay attention to opera elements; second, in Huangmei, music must retain the authentic Huangmei tune.
Jiang Jianguo carefully calculated that "Tianxian Matching" has been performed more than 20,000 times since the 1950s, and "Thunderstorm" created in 2005 has also performed more than 200 times, and the cast list is almost all young actors. Wu Yaling recalled the time when she first debuted, when she was in school, she studied Boudoir Dan and Hua Dan, and the first new role she took after entering the group was Zhengu, the personal maid of Princess Yunhua in "Dragon Girl". At that time, she was very resistant, thinking that the hot Zhengu was not her profession and should not be played by her, and the role of everyone such as a bridesmaid or princess was suitable. Fortunately, this period of secretly depressed time did not hinder the progress of Wu Yaling's artistic path, and it was Zhengu's role that made the audience remember her at once. Later, the experience of sharing the stage with many Famous Huangmei opera artists also tempered her, making her more hopeful to create more performance opportunities for the current young actors.
An audience member asked how Wu Yaling, as the last actor in the "Five Golden Flowers" to stay in the troupe, persisted. Wu Yaling admitted that the stage of Huang Mei Opera always has a strong attraction for her, and she has never wanted to leave, even because of the time when playing Zhengu was very depressed. Now not far from retirement, she also wants to meet a good book and then create a good artistic image, "The outside world of flowers and flowers is very wonderful, I only like the acre and three points on the stage, some people say that I am sticking, I don't need to stick, I am very good here." (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)