The poet Liushahe once said: "Chinese have a Chinese mentality, and Chinese have Chinese ears." "What does Chinese ear like to hear?" Of course, it is a treasure of opera handed down from the ancestors.
On the evening of September 20, the 2021 Jiangsu Mid-Autumn Festival Opera Gala will be broadcast on Jiangsu Satellite TV. This annual high-level opera art event in Jiangsu Province has appeared on the screen of Jiangsu Satellite TV for the first time in 15 years. The party is divided into seven chapters: prologue, pink ink youth, new plum first bloom, naked danxin, splendid pear garden, passing on the torch and ending, through the opera performance, showing the latest achievements in the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, and showing the latest achievements in the inheritance and development of Jiangsu opera.
High-tech + large and small screen
Help promote and disseminate opera culture
The 2021 Jiangsu Mid-Autumn Festival Opera Gala, with the theme of "Mid-Autumn Festival, Flourishing Huazhang", covers Kunqu Opera, Peking Opera, Su Opera, Yue Opera, Tin Opera, Yang Opera, Huai Opera, Huaihai Opera, Liuqin Opera, Dan Opera and other dramas, and the performance forms are full of songs and dances, some rapping and singing, some literature and some martial arts.
Jiangsu Mid-Autumn Festival Opera Gala debuted on the screen of Jiangsu Satellite TV this year, innovating the art of opera with a very distinctive TV language. The director group of the party said: "I hope that the traditional culture can be promoted through the presentation of the TV evening and let more young people fall in love with opera." ”
The evening party took advantage of the spatial characteristics of Jiangsu Radio and Television's "Litchi Grand Theater" to pull the dance scenery to the maximum, "from the entrance to the last performance area of the depth of about 40 meters, in such a depth of field, the visual feeling of the shooting is very different; the on-site recording and the studio, location shooting combined, in the virtual, keying, crossing machine and other modern scientific and technological means of blessing, the formation of a richer visual effect; the top camera position and aerial photography, upgrading and other mainstream photography methods combined, the beautiful moving line of the opera and the artist's performance multi-angle, All-round presentation.
The party will also be broadcast on the evening of the 20th in Jiangsu Literature and Art Broadcasting, Litchi News, I Su Client, Big Blue Whale, on the evening of the 21st landing on Jiangsu Variety Channel, Jiangsu Education Channel, Jiangsu International Channel, the audience can also meet with friends and relatives on Weibo, video number, vibrato, B station and other more platforms to watch the play, the integration mode of large and small screens will further help spread and promote opera culture, which also reflects the responsibility of Jiangsu Radio and Television Station in the process of promoting traditional culture.
Focus on immersive experiences
The panorama shows the beauty of opera
Taking the "Martial Arts Collection" in the chapter of "Pink Ink Youth" as an example, not only does it use the "free perspective" photography system to instantly freeze the tense movements and display the panorama, but also adopts the "de-dance beautification" design, only using lighting to outline the freehand beauty of the opera. The director group of the evening party introduced: "Peking Opera Wusheng has an action called 'shooting geese', with his arms outstretched, one leg kicked forward, and at the same time he leaned back, the performance on the stage was only in a moment, we slowed down, froze, and showed in all directions, so that the audience could feel the difficulty of the action, the skills of the actors and the beauty of the opera. ”
The "New Plum Blossom" chapter, led by Gong Lili, winner of the 28th Plum Blossom Awards and young Yang opera actor, Shan Wen, the top of the 29th Plum Blossom Awards and young Kunqu opera actor, and Li Xiaoxu, winner of the 30th Plum Blossom Award and young Yue opera actor, is a visual effects blockbuster that combines virtual and real, highlighting the dynamic and static beauty of opera performances with technology, presenting beautiful and pure ancient style visual effects, and creating an artistic conception of "people swimming in the painting". In the eyes of the party director group, "This performance is quite amazing, really only the 'horns' can do it, their hands, eyes, body, law, and steps are very in place, unique style, and have the strength to go out of the circle." ”
Zhou Dongliang, Chen Cheng, Li Zhengcheng, Li Yijie and other leading figures of Jiangsu opera gathered together in the "Splendid Pear Garden" chapter, which broke through the traditional opera viewing relationship, and the party director group believed: "We found the most suitable beauty for the classic singing section, and the famous artists were placed in the location, supplemented by film-level color grading to highlight the beautiful light and television effects." "Both TV people and opera people are a completely new attempt, and almost no one has done this before." This is the transformation of theater to television, but also an interesting exploration of opera innovation, and we are looking forward to the feedback from the audience. ”
Seven generations of tin opera inheritors are surprised by the same frame
Looking at the entire opera world is extremely rare
Jiangsu is the fertile land of opera, the "ancestor of a hundred operas" Kunqu opera was conceived here, branched and scattered, inherited in the present six hundred years; "Huiban into Beijing" set off from here, integrated with the flow, bloomed into the light of Peking Opera art. Jiangsu has 49 artists won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, ranking first in the country. There are also too many moving stories of respecting the predecessors and helping the future generations in the Jiangsu opera circle, and it is touching to regard art as the precious entrustment of life and the responsibility of inheriting the past and the future.
This year's evening party not only shows the latest achievements in the creative transformation and innovative development of Jiangsu opera, but also shows the latest achievements in the inheritance and development of Jiangsu opera. The chapter "Passing on the Torch" invites Shen Peihua, the first generation of tin opera inheritors, with the second generation of tin opera actor Ni Tongfang, the third generation of tin opera actor Xu Meixia, the fourth generation of tin opera actor Dong Yunhua, the fifth generation of tin opera actor Ji Chunyan, the sixth generation of tin opera actor Kong Zhen, the seventh generation of tin opera actor Jiang Jingyi in the same frame, the oldest Shen Peihua is 98 years old, is the "big baby" of the tin opera industry, the youngest Jiang Jingyi is 19 years old, taking on the heavy responsibility of tin opera inheritance. In the eyes of the evening director group, "This is a unique gathering, but also a moving presentation of famous teachers and apprentices, and it is also an extremely rare seven generations of the whole Chinese opera industry." In the dialogue of the seven generations of tin opera inheritors, the audience will feel the friendship of green leaves to the roots, and see the generations of opera stretching and thriving. ”
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