"The combination of Cantonese opera and symphony is easier for our young people to accept."
"As a drama, I can develop in this direction, which is very amazing to me, I am a 'post-00', as a young person, I was not very interested in this aspect, but watching this performance made me very impressed."
"Combining modern aesthetics and optimizing the emotional core, this is a good adaptation direction for traditional drama."
"Guangdong Cantonese Theater is really at the forefront of innovation, the audience is the life of the theater, if you can't absorb a new generation of audiences, the theater will die out, so I think this combination is very good, and attracting young audiences is definitely the right path."
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On the evening of September 6th, the flower of life | Zeng Xiaomin Cantonese Opera Art National Tour (Wuhan Station) "I am Zeng Xiaomin" - "Drama Say" symphony concert was staged at the Wuhan Theater, Zeng Xiaomin, Ding Fan, Wen Ruqing, Wang Yanfei and many other Cantonese opera masters and rookies, as well as Hubei Symphony Orchestra, Guangdong Cantonese Theater Orchestra and other music artists presented a cultural and artistic feast with great audiovisual impact for nearly 1,000 audiences. After the performance, the audience gave the artists a thumbs up.
The anti-epidemic Cantonese song "Blossom of Life" pays tribute to the city of heroes
The evening was directed by Tu Yuzheng, a national second-level director, and Fan Tao, a national first-class conductor, as the conductor; the symphony orchestra integrated traditional instruments such as Gao Hu, Yangqin, and Guzheng to form a band of nearly 100 people. The party was divided into several chapters such as "I Am Zeng Xiaomin", "Winter to Spring", "Drama Say", "Cantonese Yun South Wind" and other chapters, focusing on the theme of "I am Zeng Xiaomin", combined with the theme video and the wonderful fragments of her representative works "White Snake Biography", "Lady Chenguo", "Liu Yi's Strange Origin", in a big screen manner, presenting Zeng Xiaomin's personal artistic achievements, ideological and cultural accomplishment, industry leadership, showing her as a new generation of leading figure in Cantonese opera art, with the spirit of perseverance, innovation and dedication of Cantonese opera people. Under the background of the Acura era, the thriving cultural scene of the Bay Area and the vigorous development momentum of the Bay Area cities have opened a more brilliant chapter in the art of Cantonese opera.
In the chapter of "Winter to Spring", Zeng Xiaomin performed a magnificent and pointed anti-epidemic Cantonese song "Life Blossoms", showing the optimistic and confident spirit and the state and emotion of going all out to overcome difficulties, paying tribute to Wuhan, a heroic city that has made great sacrifices and contributions to the fight against the new crown epidemic. This is the second time that Zeng Xiaomin has led the team to perform in Wuhan, and this performance, for the Guangdong Cantonese Theatre, has a deeper meaning, Zeng Xiaomin said: "Walking into this city again, with the same feelings and different feelings. Touched by the vitality of the city's world-renowned vitality, touched by the thriving vitality and vitality here, I hope that through the sound of Cantonese opera in Guangdong, more beauty will be passed on to the people of Wuhan. ”
Zeng Xiaomin and Ding Fan sang "Liu Yi's Strange Flower Good Moon".
In the chapter of "Drama Says", Zeng Xiaomin presented the audience with the singing sections of "White Snake Biography", "Embroidered Red Flag", "Liu Yi Qiyuan", "Lady Chenguo" and other plays, and she performed the artistic images of Bai Suzhen, Sister Jiang, Dragon Girl Sanniang, and Lady Xian that she had successfully shaped on the stage over the years with a unique Cantonese opera singing voice. Among them, "The Legend of the White Snake" and "The Strange Adventure of Liu Yi" have been successfully adapted to the movie screen. The changeable stage shape combined with the symphony presents an ups and downs, gripping audiovisual effect, so that the audience is immersed in a cultural feast full of Lingnan characteristics.
Zeng Xiaomin and Wen Ruqing collaborated to sing "White Snake Legend " Love".
In the name of Cantonese opera, he cooperated with the Hubei Symphony Orchestra
Zeng Xiaomin's Cantonese opera art national tour from Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Yinchuan to Wuhan, this is a Cantonese opera cultural tour, using Cantonese opera to communicate with local cultures, so that more people know Lingnan culture. Music Director Chen Huazhi said: "On this journey of Cantonese opera, we have been going north with a historical vein, all the way through China. Musically, through our artistic treatment methods, we produce a new Cantonese opera expression, hoping to bring the listening enjoyment of Cantonese opera to audiences everywhere! We came into contact with different local music groups and interacted with each other, which was also the most meaningful part of the trip. ”
Zeng Xiaomin was surrounded by young fans asking for autographs.
Fan Tao, a state-level conductor, believes that this form of communication is still very important for opera, he said: "In fact, not everyone needs to understand every word he is singing, but for its music, everyone has a sense of resonance and intimacy." The fusion of symphony and Chinese folk music is also a promotion of opera music! ”
Wherever the tour goes, it will cooperate with excellent local orchestras, each orchestra cooperation, is an in-depth cultural exchange, Hubei Symphony Orchestra Secretary Wang Lexin said: "This time it is an honor to cooperate with that Guangdong Cantonese Theater, it is also a kind of exercise for us, Cantonese opera we are the first contact, this cooperative performance, subverted our understanding of traditional Cantonese opera, all of our performers feel very novel, very beautiful!" ”
On the evening of September 8, the Guangdong Cantonese Theatre will stage the modern Cantonese opera "Red Turban" for wuhan audiences.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen intern Ke Jiamin correspondent Zhu Yancai
Photo: Guangdong Cantonese Theatre Xue Caihuan