Continue to adhere to the Chinese cultural context and adhere to integrity and innovation. The reporter learned that the first large-scale and regularly held national art exhibition event in China with national opera as the core-the 14th Oriental Famous Drama Month has arrived as scheduled, 3 Blooms again from April 15th to April 19th.
This Oriental Famous Opera Month brings together Shanghai Huai Opera Troupe, Shanghai Yue Opera Troupe, Shanghai Hu Theater, Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre, Henan Opera Art Protection and Inheritance Center, Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe (arranged in order of performances by the troupes) and other troupes. It includes 11 high-quality plays on 9 channels including Peking Opera, Kun Opera, Yue Opera, Shanghai Opera, Huai Opera, and Qu Opera. Excellent works of the Shanghai style are on display, and the ancient opera art bursts out with new era values and cultural connotations.
Since its inception, Oriental Masters and Famous Drama Month has always aimed to "promote national operas in contemporary times", focusing on new plays, displaying new achievements, cultivating new audiences, and practicing the principle that "every Chinese should watch at least one show in their lifetime" So far, more than a hundred winners of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award have appeared on the stage here.
Classic inheritance captures new audiences
On March 15, the Shanghai Huai Opera Troupe’s inherited version of Huai Opera "The Golden Dragon and the Ephemera" will be the opening performance of the 14th Oriental Famous Drama Month. The play is starred by national first-class actor Chen Jiyun. This is The play is back on TOYI after 15 years. "The Golden Dragon and the Mayfly" won more than 40 drama awards in less than a year, becoming a Grand Slam award-winning play, and was hailed as "the dawn of opera in the new century."
Huai Opera "The Golden Dragon and the Mayfly" inheritance version
On April 19, the Kun Opera "Horse on the Wall" starring Plum Blossom Award and Magnolia Award winners Li An and Shen Zhenli will appear as the closing performance of Oriental Famous Drama Month, recreating the story of classical love. A tragic comedy. Kun Opera "Horse on the Wall" is adapted from Bai Pu's work. It is the first new Kun Opera play rehearsed by Beijing and Kun Opera master Yu Zhenfei in his life. It has been a repertoire of Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe for many years and has been passed down from generation to generation through continuous polishing and innovation.
Li An, Shen Yanli
New opera types broaden the audience's horizons
It is the tradition of Oriental Famous Opera Month to introduce a new opera type every year. This year, Henan Opera will meet the Shanghai audience. Qu Opera, also known as "Gaotai Opera" and "Qu Opera", is a traditional drama developed around the 1920s based on Henan opera and stilt walking. It is one of the eight major opera types in China, the second largest opera type in Henan, and a national-level opera. Intangible Cultural Heritage.
html On April 16th and 17th, the large-scale opera "Lu Zhen" will be performed on Dongyi for the first time. The play is written by Chen Yongquan and directed by Zhang Manjun. It stars opera newcomers Li Jinghua and Yang Shuaxue. It cleverly combines Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman", "Blessing", "The True Story of Ah Q", "Kong Yiji" and other works to create a brand new The art space "Lu Town" is a space where different characters in Lu Xun's works engage in spatio-temporal dialogue, forming multiple scenes of "seeing" and "being seen". The whole play is intertwined with many threads, combining fiction and reality. The madman's persistence, Lu Dingping's rebellion, Fourth Master Lu's hypocrisy, Xianglin's helplessness, the evil of the clan forces, etc. are all intertwined, depicting a picture of all living beings in a sick society. Expressing the call for a better era, it became an innovation in the adaptation of Lu Xun's original work.Shanghai Yue Theater Troupe Shows Their Style
html On March 23rd and 24th, Shanghai Yue Opera Theater will present "The Romance of the West Chamber" and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" among the "Four Classics of Shangyue", gathering many powerful actors from the Red Mansion Troupe. Among them, "The Romance of the West Chamber" is jointly performed by Chen Huidi, a leading actress of the Yuan School, Yang Tingna, a young student of the Xu School, Sheng Shuyang, a female dancer of the Fu School, and Wu Qun, an old student of the Zhang School of the Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre. "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" stars Wang Rousang, a young student of the Shanghai Yue Opera Theater's Fan School, as Liang Shanbo, Sheng Shuyang, a Hua Dan actor from the Fu School, as Zhu Yingtai, and Wu Qun, an old student of the Zhang School, as Zhu Gongyuan.On March 31, the famous actor Shu Yue will lead a unique Shanghai Opera rap show to open the show. Zhu Jian, Cheng Zhen, Shen Jiani, Wan Zitao, Jiang Zishan and other outstanding actors from the Shanghai Theater will jointly present the classic Shanghai Opera excerpt "Sunrise Reunion" "Three Looks at the Lanterns", "Ludang Fire - Battle of Wisdoms", "Broken Marriage - Romance" and medleys of the ten major genres of Shanghai Opera with their own characteristics, showcasing the style of "Shanghai local accent".
Shanghai Peking Opera Theater's "Huyun Fenghua"
From April 12th to 14th, three major plays from the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater will be staged in turn. Yu Pai Kunsheng and Shanghai Peking Opera Company's national first-class actor Wang Peiyu will join forces with Qiu Pai's famous painter and national first-class actor Wang Yue (specially invited) to present the Peking Opera "Lost Street Pavilion·Empty City Strategy·Beheading Ma Su" , this is the second in-depth collaboration between two famous actors from the north and the south after the 8k panoramic Peking opera film "Catch and Release Cao".
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In "The Yang Family General", the "Prince of Peking Opera" Fu Xiru tries to "catch up with two" by playing the two roles of Yang Jiye and Kou Zhun. The "competition" with Pan Hong, played by the famous painter Tang Yuancai, is quite interesting in the play. What to watch. Li Guojing, a Tsing Yi from the Mei School with both literary and military skills, will join hands with Yang Nan, a national first-class actor from the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater and a young student from the Ye School, to present the auspicious play "The Phoenix Returns to the Nest".
"The Yang Family"
"The Phoenix Returns to the Nest"
Oriental Famous Drama Month is directed by the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, and is managed by Beijing Poly Theater Management Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Film Industry Group. It is co-sponsored by Pudong New Area Culture and Tourism Bureau, The Paper, and Shanghai Oriental Art Center Management Co., Ltd.
