Hubei Daily News (Reporter Yan Fangting, Correspondents Chen Kun, Hua Lingyun) The 10th Wuhan “Opera Pier” Chinese Opera Art Festival will open in Han on July 20. The festival lasted for 30 days. There will be 32 wonderful performances by 17 outstanding Chinese opera troupes. 19 Plum Blossom Award actors will join in the event, and 13 Plum Blossom Award, Second Plum and Plum Blossom Award winners will lead the starring role. The opera films will be screened in a concentrated manner.
This year’s Opera Art Festival has three units: “Wuhan Has Opera, Plum Blossoms River City” theater performance, “Wuhan Opera, Talented Talents” Rising Star Competition, and “Wuhan Opera, Golden Years” film screening, aiming to continue to consolidate the audience. foundation, and help the opera culture to break the circle.
In the theater performance unit of “Wuhan Opera: Plum Blossoms River City”, there are two sections: the main theme repertoire of “Gifts to the 20th National Congress” and the traditional repertoire of “Classic from Generation to Generation”. “Jade Dragonfly”, Jingzhou Huagu Opera “Shuangyu Cicada” and other classic old operas, Kunqu Opera “The World Says New Words”, Chu Opera “Yang Naiwu” and other newly edited works, as well as Kunqu Opera “Qu Qiubai”, Chu Opera “Offer Everything” Modern dramas such as “To the Party” will meet Jiangcheng drama fans. The opening drama is “Wuhan Opera: Plum Blossom River City Famous Opera Concert”. Ten Jiangcheng Plum Blossoms, including Zhu Shihui, Liu Ziwei, Yang Jun, Pei Yongjie, Peng Qinglian, Xia Qingling, Cheng Cheng, Wang Li, Zhan Chunyao, Yu Weigang, etc. River City. The closing play is the newly created play “Yang Naiwu” by Wuhan Chu Theater. This play is a new work tailored for Yu Weigang, winner of the 30th Chinese Opera Plum Blossom Award. It maintains the performance characteristics of Chu opera, especially Li Yaqiao’s artistic style and voice. On the basis of the genre, take “Yang Naiwu” as the first protagonist to absorb modern technology for re-creation, and create actors’ “dining scenes”, “house-watching dramas” and “gonggong dramas”.
In the new star competition unit of “Wuhan Opera, Talented Talents”, it will focus on the artistic performance of young actors, and invite some talents from Wuhan’s youth art talent training program to participate in the “Liyuan New Star Yi Pier” youth competition. Eight actors selected for the Wuhan Youth Artistic Talents Training Program, including Liu Sixiu, Fang Jiahuan, Zhang Jiaqiang, Geng Liya, Bi Weiran, and Zeng Chun, will compete on the same stage. Professional judges will comment on the scene, and the audience will vote in real time. The three most popular actors will be selected on the spot. At the same time, the audience’s favorite actor will be selected through online voting. In addition, the immersive resident Peking Opera “Yi Zhangqing” starring three young actors Fang Jiahuan, Zhang Jiaqiang and Zhang Qingmin will also be staged in this unit.
In the film screening unit of “Wuhan Opera: The Golden Years”, 10 repertoires from the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Drama Association’s “Digital Film Project for Outstanding Repertoires of Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award-winning Actors” will meet the audience at Tianhe Cinema 1001 of Zhongnan Theater. Covering ten classic plays such as the Peking Opera movie “Sounding Nine Heavens”, the Yue Opera movie “Love Detective”, and the Henan Opera movie “Su Wu Shepherd”, the audience will follow a number of Plum Blossom Award winners into the golden years in the long history of opera.
This year’s Opera Art Festival still continues the policy of benefiting the people, and warms the hearts of Jiangcheng opera fans with the most affordable prices. Tickets for all performances are between 20-180 yuan. In addition, viewers can also purchase package tickets through the “Tenglv Travel” official account and mini program. At the same time, the official WeChat account of “Wuhan Theater” will give out 2,000 public welfare tickets to citizens.