News from China Central Broadcasting Corporation on November 4 (Reporter Lin Fuyu) The excellent performances of Shanghai stage art are being held in full swing and will continue until December. A total of 20 plays were shortlisted for this performance, covering different art categories such as Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Shanghai Opera, Huai Opera, Pingtan, Comic Opera, Acrobatics, Drama, and Symphony.
2021 Shanghai Outstanding Stage Art Repertoire Exhibition (Photo courtesy of interviewees issued by China Central Broadcasting Network)
In the next two months of performances, the drama “The Way of the Teacher”, Shanghai Opera “Under the Eaves of Shanghai”, the large-scale revolutionary modern Kunqu Opera “I have a descendant”, Huai Opera “Shan Mei”, etc. will be staged one after another.
The modern Kunqu Opera created by the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe is adapted from the 1963 classic film of the same name by the Changchun Film Studio. The heroic story of the struggle.
Different from Peking Opera and Shanghai opera “Red Lantern”, which takes “Li Yuhe” as the first protagonist, Kunqu Opera “Have a Descendant” takes “Li Tiemei” as the first protagonist, which is in line with the spirit of the era of “revolution has its own descendant”. It is worth mentioning that the play invited national treasure-level artists Shang Changrong, Cai Zhengren, Zhang Jingxian, and Li Xiaoping as art directors to gather outstanding creative forces inside and outside the group, and build the main creative team together. Under the leadership of old artists, they have repeatedly tempered , Strive for perfection, continue to polish, and strive to create excellent works.
The new version of the opera “Morning Bell”, which has been revised and polished several times, pays more attention to character creation, enhances the ideological nature of the play and the richness of characters, and highlights the foundation and historical necessity of the party’s founding of Shanghai as the birthplace of the Communist Party of China. The composer has made new adjustments to the orchestration, which also allows the music and screenwriter Yao Yuan’s lyrics to be in harmony and unity, further showing the heroic deeds of those heroes who sacrificed for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The red battle is not limited to the battlefield, but also includes shopping malls. The Shanghai Pingtan Group celebrates the centenary of the founding of the party, and created the novel Pingtan “War. No Smoke”. It tells the story of the people of Shanghai, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, stabilized finance, stabilized prices, and won the economic “Huaihai Battle” during the year of Shanghai’s liberation. . Young actors Lu Jinhua and Xu Yifeng incorporated “Shanghai elements” such as Shanghai opera, Huai opera, Shanghai comics, etc. in their performances.
In order to encourage the creation and performance of private colleges and groups, and promote the exchange and learning between the city, district, private and fraternal colleges and groups, the Shanghai opera “Flying over the Seven Bridges”, which won the “Excellent Repertoire Award” by the municipal outstanding private colleges and groups, will also participate This show. This Shanghai Opera, carefully created by Shanghai Xindongyuan Shanghai Opera Troupe, focuses on the history of Qibao Town, Minhang, the west gate of Shanghai.
In order to increase the artistic appeal of “Flying over the Seventh Bridge”, the play followed the Shanghai Opera arias and stories with the characteristics of emotional people. For the first time, the composition introduced artistic tunes such as Yue Opera, Jingkun Opera, and Pingtan, which increased the difficulty of performance and memory of the actors.
It is also the local “Shanghai Voice”, the Shanghai Opera “Under the Eaves of Shanghai” launched by Shanghai Changning District Shanghai Opera Inheritance Center (Changning Shanghai Opera Troupe) is based on Xia Yan’s script of the same name. The works follow Xia Yan’s creative spirit of realism, and are recreated according to the characteristics of Shanghai opera and the aesthetic needs of contemporary audiences, making the characters more vivid, making the play better, and making the singing sound better.
As a local drama in Shanghai, burlesque is mainly based on original realistic themes and is good at reflecting the life of the citizens. The burlesque “Nongtang Lixiang” is the key reality theme play of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2019, telling the changes of the times experienced by several households in the “Shanghai Old Nongtang” He Renqing is warm and cold, and won the audience’s approval with the original Shanghai-style comics.
The Yue Opera “Deep Love between Mountains and Seas” created by the Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre takes the emotional journey of a pair of Shanghai-aided Guizhou fathers and daughters from separation to mutual understanding as the main line, running through the story of the Miao girls getting rid of poverty and becoming rich. , And with the style of the Miao family. The work retains the innovative genes of Yue Opera. In addition to traditional opera directors and Yue Opera singing, the main creative personnel such as orchestral arranger, musical choreographer, live lighting show, film and television service are added, making the whole stage refreshing.
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Zhou Long’s “Shan Hai Jing” and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s annual commissioned new-creation special concert (Photo courtesy of interviewees sent by CCTV)
In addition, the drama “The Road of the Teacher” won the “Reform Pioneer” medal and the only representative of the basic education circle, Yu Yi, was created as a prototype. It is an ordinary and great way of teachers that constantly explores and promotes the reform of educational concepts.
Shanghai, which is on its way to the Asian Performing Arts Center, has never lacked good-sounding and beautiful Shanghai-style cultural travel masterpieces. As a business card of Shanghai culture, the acrobatic show “Time and Space Journey” has been upgraded to version 2.0 this year. This time “Journey in Time 2” will give the audience an immersive experience. The 3D-effect multimedia projection will vividly present the flowing river, the frolicking goldfish, the floating sea of clouds, and the landmark buildings of Shanghai.
The “Shan Hai Jing” commissioned by Zhou Long by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will also make a major debut, using large-scale orchestra as the carrier and multi-movement band concerto to create the dream of the imaginary universe.Return to Sohu to see more
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