Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) The Tsinghua University special performance to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" entering campus will be performed at the New Tsinghua Academy of Tsinghua University from June 14th to 16th. Tickets for this performance have been officially opened.
Stills from the youth version of "The Peony Pavilion".
Youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" has been performed more than 400 times since its premiere in 2004. The performance has been performed in dozens of cities at home and abroad. It has been hailed by many as "a Kunqu opera performance that cannot be missed in this life." The play is directed by the famous writer Bai Xianyong, created and performed by the Jiangsu Kun Opera Theatre. It stars Shen Fengying and Yu Jiulin, two national first-class actors from the Jiangsu Kun Opera Theater and winners of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award.
The youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" is based on Tang Xianzu's original work, and the editor completely inherited the original words. After careful sorting, he created a story with "love in dreams", "love between humans and ghosts" and "love on earth" as the core. 27% off selected items, divided into upper, middle and lower volumes. The full performance lasted for 3 consecutive days, 3 hours a day, which is enough to keep the theater fans lingering and immersed in the world of Kun Opera. As Mr. Bai Xianyong said: "Kun Opera has nothing but the word 'beauty', beautiful diction, beautiful dance, beautiful music, and beautiful human emotions. It is a comprehensive art of beauty and one of the greatest cultural achievements of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
400 years ago, Tang Xianzu, a dramatist and writer of the Ming Dynasty, created "The Peony Pavilion", which can be called a world cultural treasure. "Love doesn't know where it starts, but it goes deep. The living can die, and the dead can live." Liu Mengmei and Du Liniang cross over. The love of life and death lingers to this day. In 2003, the Suzhou Kun Opera Theater in Jiangsu Province and the famous writer Bai Xianyong, who had a "peony love" in their destiny, joined hands with cultural and opera elites to jointly create a youth version of "The Peony Pavilion", hoping to bring back the youthful life of Kun Opera.
When the youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" premiered, it was all performed by young actors, and the stage was filled with a youthful atmosphere that was consistent with the original work. This stems from Mr. Bai Xianyong's unique creativity. He hopes to use the performances of young actors to attract more young people to love the ancient art of Kun Opera and understand the profoundness of Chinese traditional culture. For the audience, the most intuitive thing about the play is the youth of the actors.
Twenty years ago, when the youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" premiered, Shen Fengying and Yu Jiulin were just in their mid-twenties, in their prime, beautiful, handsome, and charming. The youth version does not just refer to the youth and beauty of the actors. In Bai Xianyong's view, it is a misunderstanding to think that young actors are the youth version. The "youth" in "The Peony Pavilion" has a more important meaning. However, the images of Shen Fengying and Yu Jiulin are too eye-catching, and their visual impact seizes the opportunity, easily bringing the audience into the love story of ancient boys and girls.
It can be said that this work has been performed in Beijing several times over the past 20 years and has formed an indissoluble bond with the audience. Seventy-eight percent of the audience are college students, and each performance is a sensation in colleges and universities across Beijing. As a result, a "Kun Opera craze" has emerged among college students. Students have spontaneously organized Kun Opera clubs and classes, and young people are even learning to sing in a decent manner. Kun Opera. Later, many colleges and universities began to offer Kunqu opera appreciation or study courses. In this craze, the youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" played an indispensable role, and the performance of this 20th anniversary performance in Tsinghua University is even more special.
It is reported that this performance is also part of the youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" 20th anniversary spring and summer tour exclusively operated by Rice Culture China, a subsidiary of Shanghai Jingying Culture Media Group. During May and June, the youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" will be held in Sichuan , Chongqing, Anhui, Hebei, Tianjin and other places.
editor Tong Na
proofreader Liu Jun
