On stage and off stage, inside and outside the play

On the evening of October 4th, Beijing Mei lanfang Grand Theater, "'Juyuan Fanghua' Peking Opera Qiandan Kunsheng Kunjing Concert", "Late Love", originally scheduled for August performance, the epidemic was postponed to the National Day holiday, although the drizzle drizzled from noon to night, but the enthusiasm of the audience did not diminish, braving the wind and rain, came to watch the performance.

Before the show, the young audience in the neighboring seat talked, and the two girls claimed that they were not professional hobbies, but because they were engaged in design and came to the scene to absorb nourishment.

Da Axis Wen Ruhua is 75 years old, full of silver hair, still strives for excellence in the performance, plus a rocking board of Zhang Pai's famous drama "Red Lady", singing and leaving the stage are all plot performances, virtue and art, and the audience bid farewell with warm applause. On the fifteenth day of the first month of 2003, at the Chang'an Grand Theater, the "brand" Lantern Festival of the Beijing Opera House, Wen Ruhua wore a suit and sang excerpts from Peking Opera composed for Chairman Mao's poems.

The finale of Qiu Pai flower face Qiu Yun, Qiu Shengrong's daughter, the daughter inherits her father's business, and a section of "The Case of Beauty" is shocking. She thanked everyone for braving the rain and performing two more performances in succession, and the audience was very satisfied. The Qiu family mansion is located in the west of the front gate along the river street, opposite the Zhengyi Temple Theater, "the front shop and the back factory". Later, it was the office of a society, and because he was familiar with the secretary general of the society, he "visited" the house several times.

The main room is where Qiu Shengrong lives, the east wing is where the family lives, the west wing is the residence of the domestic staff, and the north room will be used by guests. Although "the autumn wind is now again, it has changed the human world." However, the society is still in the traditional pattern, the main room is the secretary-general's office room, the east wing is the secretariat staff, the west wing is the driver and other auxiliary personnel, and the north room is the conference room and reception room. Qiu Yun once came here to reminisce, "I was born in this courtyard"...

The characteristics of this performance, on and off stage, inside and outside the play, gender inversion of men and women, female laosheng, male Dan, female flower face, as a cappella, actor dress, but also its true color, contrast, stage art effect is better, the first on-stage Wang Ruoding, long cheongsam, high heels, "Winter Emperor" (Meng Xiaodong) attire; Zhang Pai Wenruhua, Meipai Hu Wenge, Cheng Pai YangLei, are all traditional Chinese costumes, not only singing moving, but also does not affect its performance effect.

At the end of the last century, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade held a patent lecture outside the Fuxing Gate in Beijing, and the translator for the French speaker was president Mitterrand's Chinese translation, Chinese the language was authentic, not listening to the voice in the stands, and would never believe that it was a typical French beautiful man...

(Ma Xiushan, October 5, 2021)

Related links: "Juyuan Fanghua" Peking Opera Qiandan Kunsheng Kunjing Concert (Mei Lanfang Grand Theatre website): "Qiandan Kunsheng Kunjing Concert" is a special artistic style in which the actor's life image and the character stage image form a distinct gender contrast in the opera. Qiandan is a male Dan, and male actors play gentle and elegant or lively and beautiful female characters. Kun Sheng is a female old student, and female actors play a solemn and calm or graceful male role. Kun Jing is a female flower face, and female actors play male characters who are strong and resolute or rough and reckless.

Peking Opera song "Small Open Door", the imperial palace concubine appears or writes accompaniment for changing clothes.