The heroic city of Chongqing has a thick red cultural accumulation, and the countless heroic stories in the novel "Red Rock" have also been passed down from generation to generation among the people. Sister Jiang is one of the most well-known ancestors of Hongyan's heroic martyrs, and her story has been put on the stage again and again for decades. A few days ago, the China Opera and Dance Theater announced the rearrangement of the opera "Sister Jiang", a famous red classic that will usher in a new presentation.
The opera "Sister Jiang" was published in 1964
Sister Jiang's story is the growing memory of generations of people in New China, and the theme song of the opera "Sister Jiang" "Red Meizan" is a well-known melody. As early as 1964, the People's Liberation Army Air Politics Cultural and Labor Troupe put the story of Jiang Jie in the novel "Red Rock" on the opera stage, which was written by Yan Su and composed by Yang Ming, Jiang Chunyang and Jin Sha, and caused a sensation throughout the country. Since then, Sister Jiang has lived in the hearts of the people of the whole country, fixed as an iron-boned and deeply touching heroine.
As a work originating from the land of Bayu, the musical materials of the opera "Sister Jiang" are rich in "Chongqing genes", which widely absorb Sichuan opera, Sichuan Qingyin, Wu opera, Yue opera, Hangtan, Yangqin, Peking Opera and other art forms for creation, both strong drama and distinct national style, and beautiful and smooth singing paragraphs, profoundly portraying the image of heroic characters, classic and timeless, unforgettable.
Singer Yi Hongyuan will interpret Sister Jiang
"The re-arrangement of the opera 'Sister Jiang' is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China." Tao Cheng, artistic director of the play and president of the China Opera and Dance Theater, introduced that under the guidance and support of the Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Propaganda Bureau of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission, the China Opera and Dance Theater has gathered opera troupes, dance troupes, symphony orchestras, chinese orchestras, stage art work departments and other departments, invited the famous director Wang Xiaoying as the general director, and Yi Hongyuan, a young soprano singer of the China Opera and Dance Theater, as the main actors, and strives to jointly give new era connotation and artistic vitality to this art work that has lasted for more than half a century.
Directed by Wang Xiaoying
As the general director of this rearrangement, Wang Xiaoying admits that the pressure is not small. "The pressure of 'Sister Jiang' is that everyone is too familiar with it, likes it too much, and we can't completely follow the previous appearance, or we don't call it rearrangement, but call it rearrangement."
Wang Xiaoying said that this rearrangement will pay more attention to the fluency of drama on the basis of retaining the essence of the original work, and strengthen the integration and unity of national instrumental music and symphony. In terms of stage presentation, with the contemporary expression concept of classic works and the integration of advanced stage technology means, we carry out innovative exploration of audio-visual.
"It is necessary to convey some new and more poetic and impactful stage image expressions, such as not the realistic image that everyone is accustomed to seeing, but a more poetic, fuller picture, and more visual impact." In fact, it is a very difficult task for us, so all our pressure may be in this area, to be worthy of everyone's liking, but also to be able to make a new artistic expression to pass on to the audience. ”
It is understood that in the next rearrangement process of the opera "Sister Jiang", the China Opera and Dance Theater will also launch a series of online and offline activities, such as inviting college students to watch the rehearsal of the performance, carrying out the sharing meeting between the main creator and the young students, going to Chongqing Hongyan to collect wind, the rehearsal experience class of the opera "Sister Jiang", the Weibo forwarding like help, etc., showing the whole process of the repertoire rearrangement to the young audience, so that they can love the red classics from the heart and inherit the red classics.
Upstream journalist Zhao Xin