Stills from the performance of "The Party's Daughter". Beijing News reporter Zheng Xinqia photographed
Under the devotion of conductor Li Xincao, seven major actors, including soprano Lei Jia and baritone singer Liao Changyong, together with the artists of the Opera Singers' Team, the Orchestra, the Choir and the Central Chinese Orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, jointly told the audience the touching story of the light of the firm faith of Communist Party members during the revolutionary period. The popular classic singing sections, gripping dramatic plots, and vivid and three-dimensional character images let the audience once again feel the heroic feelings of the communists who regard death as a homecoming in the real and perceptible "Cuckoo Slope", and relive the glory days of the blue wisps of the Chinese Communist Party.
It is reported that the classic national opera "Daughter of the Party" will continue to be performed until July 18.
Scene: Lei Jia aria sings crying audience
After the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra and the Central Chinese Orchestra played a moving overture, the theme song "Rhododendron" that runs through the whole play sounded leisurely, the curtain opened at the climax, thunder and lightning were intertwined, Tian Yumei, played by Lei Jia, and seven Communist Party members were about to be executed, the drama tension was extremely strong, and a high-pitched and powerful aria "Returning the soul in the blood and the fire" vividly expressed Tian Yumei's revolutionary spirit of not stopping life and fighting endlessly. The seventh uncle of the medicine-picking old man played by Liao Changyong sang his witty, rough, loving and upright and amiable image of him with such songs as "loyalty and adultery since ancient times" and "I will pick up the great responsibility of heaven", presenting the audience with an old and strong, iron shoulder and moral enthusiasm.
In the sixth scene of the strongest drama conflict in the whole drama, Lei Jia fully showed her good performance skills, and in the face of different conflicts such as Gui Ying's sacrifice, covering up her comrades-in-arms, and taking her daughter to be heroic and righteous, her voice was sometimes affectionate and delicate, sometimes sonorous and powerful, comprehensively and three-dimensionally portraying Yumei's different feelings for her girlfriend, her daughter, her lover, and the party, and the layers were clear and full of appropriateness. In the nearly eight minutes of aria "Thousand Miles of Spring Colors Fill the Homeland", Lei Jia portrayed Tian Yumei's glorious image in the hearts of the audience with a rounded and dramatic tension performance, which made countless audiences in tears.
Under the baton of conductor Li Xincao, the musicians of the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra and the Central Chinese Orchestra expressed the simple, natural and tense tones of the singing sections and ethnic folk music in the play, adding a strong stroke of color to shaping the character image, rendering the stage atmosphere, and explaining the changes in the drama. The villagers, bandits and revolutionary martyrs in the play are all played by singers from the Choir of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, who not only have to assume important musical interpretation functions, but also create a variety of theatrical roles, which won the praise of the audience.
After the performance, Mr. Wang, a 60-year-old civil servant, said in an interview with the Beijing News reporter, "This is an opera suitable for all ages, and the lyrics are very grounded and easy to understand." Mr. Yan Su's characters are very vivid, their loyalty to the party's cause, their steadfastness to the faith makes me very moved, many tears are turning in my eyes, especially this year, which is the centenary of the founding of the party, by watching the efforts and sacrifices made by the old party members for the overthrow of the reactionaries in the country, it has also affected us now, thinking about how we should make new contributions to realize our Chinese dream. ”
Musicians from the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra and the Central Chinese Orchestra performed under the baton of conductor Li Xincao. Beijing News reporter Zheng Xinqia photographed
Legacy: Tribute to the classics after the 30th anniversary of the premiere
The classic national opera "Daughter of the Party" was created and performed by the Opera Troupe of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (now Chinese the People's Liberation Army Cultural and Labor Troupe) in 1991 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. The script is based on the 1958 film literary script of the same name, written by Yan Su (author), Wang Jian, He Dongjiu, Wang Shouyuan, composed by Wang Zujie, Zhang Zhuoya, Yin Qing, Wang Xiren, Ji Cheng, Fang Tianxing, peng Liyuan, Yang Hongji and other opera performance artists completed the first round of creative performances, successfully shaping the first generation of "Tian Yumei", "Seven Uncles" and other classic stage characters, which can be called a model of national opera. The play won the second Wenhua Award in 1992, and participated in the gift performance to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1999, and has won a number of national art awards. Classic songs in the play, such as "There is a shining star in the sky", "Spring is full of homes", "Rhododendrons" and so on are widely sung.
Coinciding with the great moment of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the 30th anniversary of the premiere of the play, the National Centre for the Performing Arts, with the strong support of the Department of Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Propaganda Bureau of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission, and the People's Liberation Army Culture and Art Center, continued the red blood, paid tribute to the classics, and celebrated the centenary of the Communist Party of China with this fine art that expressed the iron faith of communists and the fearless revolutionary spirit of living to the dead. This is also the first opera play produced and launched by the National Centre for the Performing Arts on the new journey of the second centenary goal led by the Communist Party of China, and all the cast and crew have carefully polished it with the spirit of ingenuity, hoping to inspire and inspire the audience and create new glory on the new journey. Wang Ning, president of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, said: "30 years ago, the best artists in the country at that time concentrated on the national opera "Daughter of the Party", which was carefully created and rehearsed, sang the sincere heart of the party and played the immortal ode of righteousness. The re-production of this opera by the National Centre for the Performing Arts is not only a tribute to the red classic, but also allows the heroic image to continue its strong vitality on the stage. I hope to pass on the ideal light and the power of faith of 'Tian Yumei' in the play, cast the soul of faith, and stand up the backbone of faith. At the same time, we strive to make this work a classic play that continues the spiritual bloodline and inherits the red gene, and becomes a fine masterpiece that lives up to the people's worthy of the times and has both the roots of the nation and the beauty of art. ”
The National Centre for the Performing Arts version of the classic national opera "Daughter of the Party" (rearranged and newly produced) has been included in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Stage Art Creation Project" project, and the "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Excellent Stage Art Exhibition" project co-sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Choreography: 3D light and shadow travel through time and space into the revolutionary mountains
In the performance of the evening, the audience not only enjoyed the impeccable singing and performance, but at the same time, the fascinating stage presentation was undoubtedly one of the highlights that could not be ignored in the audience. 30 years after the premiere of the opera "Daughter of the Party", the main creative team of the Grand Theater Edition paid tribute to the classics, while striving to innovate and use modern stage technologies such as multimedia to bring a new stage aesthetic experience to the audience.
The majestic mountains that rise up in the opening scene are covered with smoke, pulling the audience back to the white-hot period of the Anti-Japanese War in the mountains of Jiangxi in the 1930s, and the stretch of mountains heralds the imminent unfolding of the dangerous and thrilling anti-Japanese resistance behind enemy lines. Bluestone slabs, horse head walls, wooden planks and green tiles, a faction of Gannan architectural style, in the play Ma Jiahui's home is designed and displayed according to the layout of local houses, so that the audience can immerse themselves in the thrilling story direction of the characters in the play, such as "catching traitors" and "raising pickles".
When Yumei and Guiying reminisce about their former girlfriends, the multimedia pictures projected by the ice screen hidden on the stage bring the audience into their former beauty, and the beauty and reality are within reach. On the stage, the seven uncles' grass hut is the second floor of Ma Jiahui's house, which echoes with the damp mountains and does not have the slightest sense of violation. Deep in the mountain bamboo forest, 200 bamboo hanging stage, the stage depth feels as if immersed in the scene, the long mountain forest also let the audience deeply sweat for the search for the guerrillas. Yumei's final heroic righteousness is the climax of the whole drama, with the sonorous and powerful declaration of "laughing at this thousand miles of spring colors full of homeland" sounded, her revolutionary blood stained the rhododendrons on the mountain, played by 48 singers of the National Centre for the Performing Arts Choir, the affectionate and gentle chorus created a magnificent momentum, touching the heart and tears, a shocking and magnificent revolutionary epic, for the audience present that night a vivid and unforgettable art party lesson.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen Zheng Xinqia
Edited by Tian Kaini Proofreader Yang Xuli