In the face of the enthusiastic audience, Zeng Xiaomin played Bai Suzhen around a "love" word, and the action and emotional expression were particularly delicate. In "Intercession" and "Wounded Feelings", she showed her extraordinary martial arts skills, in addition to fighting with the crane deer two fairy children with swords, flying alone with a sling to seize the Lingzhi, performing dazzling "kicking guns", but also using the long water sleeves she is good at as a "weapon" - so that the audience can see not only an extension of a snake-like form, breaking through the traditional "shot" performance form, which is a successful innovation in the performing arts of opera.
On the evening of May 30th, under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, sponsored by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province and the Department of Culture and Tourism of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and undertaken by Guangdong Cantonese Theatre and Ningxia People's Theater, Zeng Xiaomin's National Tour of Cantonese Opera (Yinchuan Station) was successfully held at the Ningxia People's Theatre. National second-level actor Zhu Hongxing and other Cantonese opera celebrities brought one of Zeng Xiaomin's representative works, "White Snake Legend and Love", to the Yinchuan audience.
Zeng Xiaomin, Wen Ruqing, Wang Yanfei and Zhu Hongxing, and other famous Cantonese opera artists performed one of Zeng Xiaomin's masterpieces, the Cantonese opera "White Snake Legend of Love".
Cantonese opera "White Snake Biography • Love" with "love" as the main line throughout the play, after many revisions and improvements and practical performances, has further purified the aesthetic audiovisual impression, and interpreted an opera story that has been performed for two or three hundred years into a contemporary love fable. And it is the constant emotions of the characters in the play that constantly introduce the hearts of the audience, especially young audiences, into the depths, thus generating strong resonance. In 2017, Zeng Xiaomin won the 28th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award with the Cantonese opera "White Snake Biography and Love", and won the 16th Wenhua Performance Award in 2019, the play was also jointly put on the big screen by Pearl River Film Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong Cantonese Theater, Foshan Cultural Development Investment Management Co., Ltd., and was released nationwide after its premiere in Guangzhou on May 20, with a Douban score of 8.2, Bilibili barrage of more than 2 million, deeply loved by "post-90s" and "post-00" young audiences, attracting countless fans.
After the performance, Zeng Xiaomin and a group of cast members closed the curtain, the audience stood up and applauded, and the fans and fans could not wait to go on stage to offer flowers, and the atmosphere was warm. Zeng Xiaomin greeted the audience cordially, she said: "Thanks to the strong support of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, we are from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with the World Intangible Cultural Heritage Cantonese opera walked 1829 kilometers to Yinchuan, Ningxia, and met the lovely Yinchuan audience friends. I sing another Cantonese song "Fire and Red Cotton" to the audience friends in Ningxia and also pay tribute to Guangzhou! ＂
After the performance, Zeng Xiaomin and a group of cast members closed the curtain.
"This is the first time since the establishment of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 1958 that Cantonese opera has come to Yinchuan to perform, and the Cantonese opera "White Snake Legend • Love" brought by the Guangdong Cantonese Theatre gives Ningxia audiences the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of Cantonese opera and appreciate the charm of 'southern red beans'." Good repertoire and good performances can resonate with the audience across the language barrier. Liu Ping, a famous Qin opera performance artist, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, vice chairman of the China Drama Association, and first-class inspector of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, said: "Cantonese opera "White Snake Legend of Love" brings a fresh breath, beautiful legends, beautiful love, and spread through the ages. Although it is Cantonese opera, it has no obstacles, beautiful lyrics, beautiful stage mood, beautiful singing voice, beautiful actors, exquisite acting skills, excellent production, and won full color! The fine repertoire can also bloom with a hundred flowers, not to mention the familiar story of Chinese! ”
The audience stood up and applauded, and the fans couldn't wait to come on stage to present flowers, and the atmosphere was warm.
Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen intern Wei Xuying