On the evening of August 28, the opera "Lu Town", a 2024 communication and exchange promotion funding project of the National Arts Fund, was performed brilliantly at the People's Hall of Henan Province. As the performance came to an end, it also brought a successful conclusion to

On the evening of August 28, the opera "Lu Town", a 2024 communication and exchange promotion funding project of the National Arts Fund, was brilliantly performed at the People's Hall of Henan Province. As the performance came to an end, it also brought a successful conclusion to the first stage of the national tour.

"It's great!" After watching the performance, Mr. Hu, a senior opera lover, couldn't hide his excitement and wrote two big characters in the "Audience Evaluation Form". He said that he had never seen a whole show before, and today he finally sat in the theater for more than two hours. The show was very beautiful from the lighting and scenery, music and singing, to the actors' performances and plot settings.

The opera "Lu Town" is written by the famous playwright Chen Yongquan and directed by the famous director Zhang Manjun. The famous composers Fang Kejie, Liang Xianjun, and Li Hongquan serve as composers, vocal designers, and orchestrators respectively. The play is adapted from Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman", "Blessing", "The True Story of Ah Q", "Kong Yiji" and many other works. Through a unique perspective and ingenious conception, many of Lu Xun's characters are concentrated in Lu Town, creating It creates a brand-new artistic space that allows different characters to engage in time-space dialogue.

Outstanding young actors such as Li Jinghua, Dong Yuanbo and Chang Xiangke, who graduated from the drama class of the China Academy of Opera, took on important responsibilities and lived up to expectations. Whether it was singing or performing, they all left a deep impression on the audience and won the audience's enthusiasm again and again. of applause.

Plum Blossom Award winner Yang Shuaixue, first-class actors Li Yajun, Liu Yanli and other famous opera drama masters showed their profound and solid artistic skills, and performed the characters they played appropriately, making the audience hooked after watching it, and they were almost like the characters written by Mr. Lu Xun. The performance came alive, making everyone feel like they were there, as if they were back in that era.

Mr. Du, a well-known literary and historical scholar and retired provincial cadre, said that he has always been curious about how screenwriters can string together several of Mr. Lu Xun's novels, and how to express so many characters? After watching the performance, these questions were answered. The play was well written and performed.

After the performance, an expert seminar on the opera "Lu Town" was held. Experts spoke highly of the wonderful presentation of the opera "Lu Town". They all believed that not only the leading role was performed well, but the supporting roles and extras also cooperated well and the performance was better every time. It can be called a masterpiece in the history of Henan opera. milestone.

This national tour of "Lu Town" is the first national tour of the National Arts Fund's communication and promotion play carried out by the Henan Opera Art Protection and Inheritance Center. The tour kicked off in Ma'anshan, Anhui Province on August 11 and lasted for more than half a month. It performed 10 times in four provinces and five cities including Anhui, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Henan, covering a distance of more than 3,000 kilometers and benefiting more than 5,000 audiences from all over the country.

(Zhengguan News reporter Qinhua correspondent Zheng Hongqi Cheng Shengze text/picture)