When the Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe's "Five Classes and Three Generations" actors came to the stage to take their final bows one after another, and when the Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe's "Kun Da Class" artists took flowers from the hands of the students, the stage was full and the audience was full of emotions. Everyone was excited. Stand up and applaud enthusiastically and cheer. At this moment, everyone on stage and off stage witnessed the ancient art of Kun Opera being passed down from generation to generation. Everyone recalled the history of Kun Opera art over the past few decades. Some actors shed tears on the stage, and some in the audience also shed tears. This scene on and off the stage is like a microcosm of the past years. It is through the watchfulness of generations of Kun Opera people and audiences that the 600-year-old art of Kun Opera can be passed down and its cultural heritage can last forever.
On the evening of May 17th, the Shaw Stage was packed with people. The Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe held a special commemorative performance with the theme of "Colorful Colors in Bloom" - a series of performances celebrating the 70th anniversary of the "Kun Daban" and the 30th anniversary of the "Kunnan Third Troupe" joining the troupe.
Group photo
On this night, all the actors from the "Fifth Class and Three Generations" of Kunqu Opera Troupe appeared on stage. Many audiences, old friends, and classmates and colleagues who have been emotionally bound to the Kunqu Opera Troupe for many years also attended. Everyone gathered in the theater to look back at the "growth" process of Kun Opera, pay tribute to the six hundred years of Kun Opera, and pay tribute to Kun Opera people. This was a lively and special performance. The original performance lasted for more than two hours and lasted for more than three hours. Several generations of Kunqu opera performers gathered in front of the stage and talked behind the scenes. After the performance, the audience was still immersed in the excitement of the performance. Many people chased and blocked the back door of the theater, hoping to meet the artists.
This year marks the 23rd anniversary of Kun Opera being selected as a world "intangible cultural heritage". Every year around May 18, the Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe will hold a series of commemorative activities. This year is a special day for two generations of Kunqu Opera performers. In addition to this commemorative performance, there will also be a collection of excerpts.
Kunming Class Three·30 Years in the Troupe
The performance opened with a short film at No. 9, Shaoxing Road. This is a common memory for people in Shangkun and is also a common memory for every audience who loves Kun Opera. The stage for the entire performance was also designed to look like the small building of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe at No. 9 Shaoxing Road, with simple windows and dancing light and shadow.
The Kunshan Troupe Band specially created the performance "Looking Back Again"
30 years ago, in 1994, young people from the "Kunsan Troupe" walked into this small building and also walked into the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe. There were 54 people in the performance class who joined the troupe back then, and 25 people have remained in the troupe so far. There are 19 people in the music class, and 10 people have stayed in the group so far. Many of them have become leading figures in the opera circles in Shanghai and even across the country. It is worth mentioning that five "Kunsan Class Three" performing artists have won the Plum Blossom Award, continuing the troupe's record of "five blessings".
"During the rehearsal, I sat in the theater and saw those videos and photos, and I couldn't help but shed tears." As a member of the Kunshan Class 3, Gu Haohao, who is the master of swordsmanship, is now the full-time vice chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chairman of the Shanghai Drama Association and head of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe. All kinds of performances have evoked countless memories for her in the past 30 years.
In this performance, almost all the "students" from Kunming's Class 3 who were active on the stage appeared on the stage and performed their own specialties. The five Plum Blossom Award winners Gu Haohao, Zhang Jun, Wu Shuang, Shen Yili, and Li An also performed their own new creations in addition to traditional plays. Through their respective performances, everyone looked back at their artistic growth over the past 30 years since they joined the troupe, and also presented the achievements of this generation of Kunqu Opera people in keeping integrity and innovation.
The most touching scene of the night occurred when the "Kunsan Class Three" made their collective appearance. Among the 25 people who stayed in the troupe that year, many actors from Kunming Class Three have now become staff members in administrative management, stage design and other positions. Many audiences in the audience had watched their performances before, and this night, under Gu Haohao's introduction one by one, they appeared one by one with their new identities and once again won warm applause from the audience.
Gu Haohao introduced all the students from Kunsthalle 3 to the audience one by one.
Not only that, many students from Kunsthalle 3 who had joined the troupe also returned to Shanghai from all over the world that night and came to the Shaw Stage.
"We stand on this stage together today and collectively express our gratitude to our teachers and audience friends for your companionship and support.In the future, we will move forward hand in hand towards the next ten or twenty years. Because our common name is, Kunming Class 3!" When Gu Haohao said this on behalf of the Mantai Kunming Class 3 students, the audience burst into applause.
Kunming University Class · 70 Years in the Arts
The whole party was divided into four chapters. , with music, multimedia and other diverse forms throughout. Each chapter is titled with a Kun Opera tune. In the last chapter of the performance, 8 veteran Kunqu Opera artists took the stage one by one and sang their best parts. Reaching its climax.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the "Kun Opera". As the first batch of Kun Opera talents trained after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the "Kun Opera" began to learn Kun Opera in 1954 and became an important link between the past and the future, as well as the revival and prosperity of China. It is called a generation that creates miracles, a generation that is both moral and artistic, and a generation that inherits the past and forges ahead into the future.
Chinese painting master Dai Dunbang created a new series of works for the Kunming Daban artists
Now, the masters who were famous in Kunming. Now in their senior years, they gradually faded away from the stage and devoted themselves to education. The performance that night was also a rare occasion for them to perform on the same stage as students from Kunming Class 3, which was a tacit understanding between master and apprentice. Art inheritance.
Wang Zhiquan and Gu Haohao sang a duet of "Leifeng Pagoda·Water Fight", Fang Yang co-starred with Wu Shuang in "Tianxia Le·Married Sister", and Zhang Xunpeng and Yuan Jia sang "Leifeng Pagoda·Broken Bridge" ", Yue Meiti and Hu Weilu sang "Handan Ji·Three Drunks", Cai Zhengren and Li An sang "Jade Hairpin·Qintiao"
Wang Zhiquan and Gu Haohao
Fang Yang and Wu Shuang
Zhang Xunpeng and Yuan Jia
Yue Meiti. Hu Weilu
Cai Zhengren and Li An
Gu Haohao recalled that when the troupe went to perform in Taiwan, the teacher brought this play "Leifeng Pagoda·Water Fight", and it was Hua Hua who was chosen to play Xiao Qing as her partner. The fledgling Gu Haohao. Decades have passed. “Back then, it was the teacher who held my hand on stage, but now we are holding the teacher’s hand. Especially emotional. "
In addition, Zhang Mingrong performed "Children and Grandsons: Powerful Monks", while Liang Guyin performed a section of "Water Margin: Capture Alive" to commemorate his old classmate and old partner Liu Yilong, who had just left us.
Zhang Mingrong
Liang Guyin
gained the most that night The one who received the warmest applause was undoubtedly Ji Zhenhua. After singing "Eternal Life Palace·Tanci", Ji Zhenhua not only used his singing voice to make the audience excited and applauded like thunder, he also revealed on the stage that today is the day of the song. His birthday. Amid thunderous applause from the audience, he sang another verse.
Ji Zhenhua
In this night's performance, the artist Zhang Jingxian of Kunming Class 2 took the stage as the narrator, and "Kunming Class 4" and "Kunming Class 4" sang another song. The younger generation of Kun Opera performers of the "Fifth Generation of Kun Opera Troupe" also showed everyone the inheritance of Kun Opera art from generation to generation with their magnificent stage grace. The fifth generation of Kun Opera Troupe of the Third Troupe, everyone on and off the stage, was In this performance, we witness and hope that the art of Kun Opera will continue to flourish.
The curtain call
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