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The 2020 key creative project of the Beijing Opera House, the modern Peking Opera "Xu Yunfeng", is seizing the time to rehearse. At 7:30 p.m. on May 21, Liu Tong, president of the Beijing Opera House, Tan Xiaozeng, a Peking Opera performing artist, Yan Guixiang and his wife, and Tan Zhengyan, an outstanding young Peking Opera actor, visited the online live broadcast of the 2019 Beijing Culture and Art Fund-funded project "Talking About Art and Talking about Beijing" to chat with netizens about the choreographed story of the play.
The modern Peking Opera "Xu Yunfeng" is based on the famous novel "Red Rock", which is a full excavation, reorganization and re-creation of the Peking Opera "Red Rock" created and performed by the Beijing Opera House nearly 40 years ago.
The play tells the story of Xu Yunfeng, secretary of the Chongqing Underground Party Working Committee, who was arrested for betrayal by traitors while on a mission to organize the rescue of victims of the Gele Mountain concentration camp. In this purgatory on earth, he organized his fellow prisoners to engage in a wit struggle with the reactionaries. In the dungeon, he discusses a rescue plan with Hua Ziliang, who pretends to be crazy, and uses his hands to dig the tunnel to freedom. In order not to sabotage the party's rescue plan, Xu Yunfeng refused to escape from prison alone. He made a final spiritual contest with Xu Pengfei with the ideals, will and ambitions of the communists, and completed the rescue task with his life.
The screenwriter of the 1984 version of Peking Opera "Red Rock" is Yan Su and Wang Zengqi, the director is Chi Jinsheng, and the screenwriter of "Xu Yunfeng" is Wang Xinji and the director is Li Qing. The cast of the drama is strong, Tan Zhengyan and Tan Xiao have played Xu Yunfeng, Du Zhenjie and Tan Xiao have played Xu Pengfei, Zhu Qiang and Zhang Kai have played Hua Ziliang, in addition to Mei Qingyang, Cao Yangyang and other well-known actors also play important roles in the play.
For such a classic modern Peking Opera, what preparations did the Beijing Peking Opera House make in the excavation and re-creation, how young actors shoulder heavy responsibilities, and how famous artists challenge themselves. Dean Liu Tong, Tan Xiaozeng, Yan Guixiang and Tan Zhengyan will talk about the artistic experience of the play in choreography and creation in the online live broadcast of Beijing Youth Daily, and how the Beijing Opera House can resume work and production in the post-epidemic period to prepare for the stage again. (Reporter Guo Jia)