"This film is a very valuable thing for me personally, for this play, and even for the contemporary Chinese Peking Opera industry, and it has achieved the dissemination and recording of the trend of drama in line with the world today." Wang Peiyu, a famous Peking Opera actress, said that the film she is talking about is the upcoming "Peking Opera Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" that will be released nationwide on October 28, and the film was screened in advance at the Shanghai Yihai Theater yesterday.
NTlive is well known to many theater lovers, through multiple camera shooting and on-site directing, covering the crowd outside the theater with high-definition images, "Peking Opera Search and Rescue Orphans" is the first attempt to explore this form of Chinese opera. On September 8, 1947, the legend of Liyuan Meng Xiaodong's "Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" was staged in the China Grand Theatre, becoming a song of "Guangling Absolute Sound" for the farewell stage of the "Winter Emperor". In 2018, Wang Peiyu stepped on the same stage and carefully reproduced the "Winter Emperor" singing voice, recreating this version of "Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans".
In addition to reproducing this performance three years ago, the film also took a precious picture of the rehearsal moment, and through the form of pre-screening interviews, led the audience to enter this work in an all-round way, including Chi Jinsheng, Liu Lianqun, Chai Junwei, including a number of Peking Opera artists and traditional culture masters in front of the camera, such as "the cultural field of traditional Peking Opera art", "doing drama as a person" and other cultural concepts are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that contemporary audiences and even future generations can see this colorful art form that spans time and space.
The first time to test the waters of high-definition drama scene, why did you choose the small volume of "Search for Orphans and Save Orphans"? In Wang Peiyu's heart, this drama is a special existence, and it has irreplaceable significance for the Inheritance of the Yu Sect and the Female Laosheng Branch. The story of "Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" has a long history and has also evolved on the Peking Opera stage. Master Tan Xinpei designed the core singing voice for the role of Cheng Baby, making it the first protagonist of the play. After Yu Shuyan worshiped Tan, he had time to learn "Sou Lonely" in the future, only from Mr. Guan Dayuan to the general appearance, and carefully polished the two singing voices with artistic talent, which also made "Sou Lonely" change from water opera and pad drama to Yu Pai representative repertoire. Passed to Meng Xiaodong, it was a play performed at the China Grand Theater in Shanghai on September 8, 1947, which became a unique and isolated book, and the most original Yupai singing voice was preserved when singing, which flowed to future generations.
"The significance of documentary film is not only to reproduce his own performance three years ago, but also to provide new possibilities for the contemporary transmission of Peking Opera." Wang Peiyu told reporters. This classic old drama has also accompanied Wang Peiyu's growth path all the way, from 1991 when she did not enter the science class, she listened to the tape and learned "Search for Orphans and Save Orphans", and the aesthetic enlightenment of the old students was also given by this. In 1994, at the age of 16, Wang Peiyu represented the Shanghai Opera School in the "New Miao Cup", winning the first place in the professional group with "Search for Orphans and Saving Orphans", and later won the award at the 2001 National Television Art Competition. In 2011, Wang Peiyu herself combined Yu Pai and Ma Pai to produce the "Mo ben Danqing version" "Zhao Orphan", with the role of Cheng Bao won the current Chinese drama plum blossom award, but she still wants to get over the addiction, reproducing the classic version of more than 70 years ago, which has this "Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" that echoes Mr. Meng Xiaodong's time and space.
"Peking Opera Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" is the first high-definition video of Chinese opera in the 6 years since the establishment of the "New Scene" HD video screening series created by Beijing Ozhewei Culture Communication Co., Ltd. It is reported that the "new scene" will also release "Peking Opera Search for Orphans and Save Orphans" overseas, bringing the treasures of traditional Chinese art to the international stage.
Author: Wang Xiaoli
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Editor: Xu Luming