Changsha Evening News All-Media Reporters Huang Neng and Yan Jiawen
The old warehouse of the theater was "renovated" into the "Wuling Secret Realm", and an oriental love myth drama slowly began here. On April 12, the media meeting and ticketing ceremony for the new Chinese style immersive fantasy show "New Bangs Chopping Wood" was held at the Hunan Province Flower Drum Opera Protection and Inheritance Center.
spent 2 years of careful planning, renovating the 462-square-meter old space, escorted by a multinational production team, and 300 choreography and polishing sessions. "New Bangs Chopping Wood" is finally going to meet the audience. The Huxiang cultural story "Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter" is reborn. Will the opera DNA of Hunan people be awakened?
The collision between traditional flower drum opera and the contemporary musical "Breaking the Circle"
"Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter" can be called a treasure of Hunan folk oral literature and an IP of Hunan culture. In the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1984, Li Guyi and Jiang Kun performed "Liang Hai Chopping Woodcutter", which was better than the traditional performance, making "Liang Hai Chopping Woodcutter" famous throughout the country. The love story of Liu Hai, a young woodcutter, and Hu Xiuying, a fox fairy, is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Their pursuit of true love transcends the times and is fascinating.
At the media meeting, Chen Zhengguang, chief planner of the crew of "New Liu Hai Chopping Wood" and Secretary and Director of the Party Committee and Director of Hunan Flower Drum Opera Protection and Inheritance Center, introduced that "Liang Hai Chopping Wood" is one of the classics of Hua Drum Opera and has always been loved by the audience. With the changes of the times, traditional opera is facing many challenges such as audience loss and diversified market competition. The troupe has been thinking about how to achieve innovative development of opera art while inheriting classics. In 2022, they inspected many times and came into contact with the Yiyihaoxue team, which is a very cutting-edge team in the Shanghai musical market. At that time, the Taiwan TV drama team was beginning to formulate the new Chinese-style immersive Yue opera "New Dragon Gate Inn". The two parties coincided with the concept of exploring the innovative development of traditional opera and contemporary musicals, so they simultaneously started "New Bangs Cut". Woodcutter" project planning. Considering the long-term operation of the site, the institute chose to join forces with Hunan Radio and Television Golden Eagle 955, and the three parties reached a cooperation.
In 2023, the Yue opera "New Dragon Gate Inn" became popular. The lead actress Chen Lijun frequently appeared on the hot lists of major Chinese social media, setting off a long craze on the entire Internet, attracting many young audiences who had never been exposed to Yue opera before. Enter the theater. So, can "New Bangs Chopping Wood" continue the popularity of "New Dragon Inn"?
Chen Zhengguang emphasized that "New Bangs Chopping Woodcutter" is a new attempt at Hunan Flower Drum Opera. It is a "circle-breaking" collision of traditional Flower Drum Opera and contemporary musicals, and it is also a new interpretation of the classic Eastern love myth.
The old warehouse transformed into the "Wuling Secret Realm" and staged an immersive fantasy show
Gao Ruijia, the chief director of the crew of "New Liu Hai Chopping Wood", introduced that the performance uses musicals to tell the story of Flower Drum Opera, but retains the original flavor of Flower Drum Opera and is suitable for different audiences. Audiences of all ages walked into the theater to watch. The fantasy experience brought by sound, light and electricity is unparalleled, the actors' wonderful performances are fascinating, and the theme of love and courage delivers heart-warming power.
The "New Liu Hai Chopping Wood" small theater is located in the Huagu Theater of Hunan Province. It was transformed from an old warehouse. The 462-square-meter immersive space recreates the secret realm of Wuling for thousands of years. In terms of viewing methods, the performance breaks away from the conventional horseshoe-shaped theater characteristics and is divided into four viewing areas. Audiences sitting in the front row can even feel the wind blowing on their sleeves during the play, see the sweat on the foreheads of the actors, and feel emotionally infected. Extremely powerful. The design of the theatrical space that reduces the boundaries between the audience and the use of lighting and sound effects to match the plot makes it easy for the audience to become part of the theater and drama, achieving an immersive experience similar to "script-killing", which is what young people now favor. New viewing mode.
real scene integrates naked-eye 3D multimedia technology, incorporates Chinese style elements into the ink style, and cooperates with stage machinery, Wire and other stage stunts. "New Bangs Chopping Woodcutter" has hidden mechanisms everywhere, and various sound, light and electricity are used to enhance the visual, auditory, olfactory and other senses. Give the audience the maximum immersive viewing experience. Combining martial arts and dance, multimedia visual effects are superimposed with narrative lighting and Wi-Fi stunts to create exciting fighting scenes; movie-level Fuhua Tao blessings, flower drum opera, Hunan embroidery, brocade, bamboo weaving and other Hunan intangible cultural heritage elements are integrated into the show to showcase the lake. Hunan heritage and oriental aesthetics.
In terms of music, "New Bangs Chop Woodcutter" invited the famous Korean composer Zhang Shaoying to compose the music, and collaborated with the domestic first-class music production team to create a creative fusion of pop music and traditional Huagu Opera music. Coupled with meryersound sound surround and the new spatial audio technology spacemap go, the sound of live real-time performances has strong spatiality and more possibilities, truly making the sound "move" and "jump" to create a surround sound effect.
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