Dawan News Anqing is a "city with drama". In recent years, the city has effectively assumed its cultural responsibility as the "Hometown of Opera", vigorously promoted Huangmei Opera to "sing up, go out, go out, and go online", and continued to create a "Golden Week·Huangmei Opera" where you can enjoy the scenery during the day and watch the opera at night. "Cultural tourism brand continues to enhance people's sense of cultural gain.
A city with drama
Anqing City is a "city with drama". The Hui Troupe started from here and moved to Beijing, blending southern and northern tunes into one pot, giving birth to the quintessence of Chinese Peking Opera; Gao Langting, the first Hui Troupe to enter Beijing, and Cheng Changgeng, the originator of Peking Opera, both came from Anqing. Shipai Ancient Town even left behind "the best children of Liyuan, There is a good saying that no class can be built without stones.” Huangmei Opera originated and flourished in Anqing. It is popular all over the country and is famous at home and abroad. It has become one of the "five major types of opera in the country". According to big data, Huangmei Opera has become the most popular local opera among netizens.
Anqing opera has a fertile soil and a strong mass base, and has successively produced leading figures in Huangmei opera such as Yan Fengying, Ma Lan, and Han Zaifen. At present, the city's opera creation, performance, research, and education systems are relatively complete. It is the only "China Huangmei Opera Development Base" and "China Local Opera Type Inheritance and Development Base" named by the Chinese Drama Association. The "Anqing Huangmei Opera Protection and Inheritance Regulations" have been promulgated and implemented. .
In addition to Huangmei Opera in Anqing City, rare local operas (opera tunes) such as Gaoqiang, Tanqiang, Wennanci, Quxi, Huaiqiang, Longqiang, and Tongcheng Opera are also active in the fields. The city currently has 11 professional theater troupes (8 Huangmei Opera Troupe, 1 Peking Opera Repertory Troupe, 1 acrobatic troupe, and 1 Gaoqiang inheritance center), with more than 800 professional performers and more than 400 private opera troupes and folk classes. There are more than 4,000 practitioners in the area. At the same time, there are research and training institutions such as Anqing Huangmei Opera (local opera) Research Institute, Anhui Huangmei Opera Art Vocational College, Anqing Normal University Huangmei Opera College, Anhui China Huangmei Opera Museum, and students of opera and related majors. Nearly 500 people.
Innovation "New Stage"
Every evening at 7:30, the "Seven Fairies" of Huangmei Drama Troupe of Huaining County meets netizens on time in the live broadcast room. In just over a year from the stage to the live broadcast, this troupe with a history of more than 60 years has been popular among many young netizens for singing "Cry", and has received more than 6 million likes and more than 1 million loyal followers. fan.
There are no gorgeous stages and lights, nor gorgeous costumes and props. However, this group of girls and boys born in the 90s and even the 00s, with their youthful vitality and deep love for Huangmei Opera, comforted the majority of netizens and silently Contribute your own strength to the inheritance of opera.
According to Liu Lihua, the leader of Huaining County Huangmei Theater Troupe, the public account of Huaining County Huangmei Theater Troupe has reached 1.325 million fans since it was launched in January 2022. It has shot more than 170 short videos and more than 350 live broadcasts. The number of viewers of each live broadcast has maintained There are more than 10,000 people, and at most 40,000 people are watching online. Statistics from the platform show that since its arrival in January 2022, the live broadcast room of Huaining County Huangmei Opera Troupe has received more than 360 million likes, ranking first among the most popular county-level opera troupes of the year, and has achieved good social benefits.
Create a "Drama Pier"
Reporters learned from the Anqing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism that in recent years, Anqing City has closely focused on creation and production to create high-quality Huangmei Opera art, while also focusing on talent training to enhance the artistic appeal of Huangmei Opera.
Through “cultivating celebrities”, “recommending newcomers” and “nurturing new seedlings”, Anqing City has gone deep into schools and towns across the city to select primary and secondary school students with artistic expertise to be “ordered to train” in opera colleges and universities to improve the quality of Huangmei Opera students. At the same time, an interactive mechanism between famous opera masters and colleges and universities has been established, and Huangmei Opera undergraduate and junior college students are arranged to have practical training in the troupe during holidays.
According to reports, "Zaifen Huangmei" has established a four-level talent echelon including an art inheritance committee, a key actor team, a youth troupe, and a children's art troupe.
In addition, Anqing City has also increased the artistic influence of Huangmei Opera by increasing performances. Over the past 30 years, the city has successfully held 9 China (Anqing) Huangmei Opera Art Festival, and the 10th Art Festival will be held in 2024.
In the past five years, Anqing Huangmei Theater Troupe has traveled to more than 80 cities in nearly 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country, as well as in Russia, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, etc. Newly created plays have been staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts for several consecutive years. By promoting Huangmei Opera to go abroad (border) and out of the province, efforts will be made to build the "Opera Pier" in Anqing, China.
Dawan News Reporter Jiang Liuqiao
Editor Zhang Siping
