On November 3, at the Airport Grand Theater, the Chinese Chao Chao musical "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" directed by drama director, conductor, and composer Cai Donghua appeared at the 13th Qintai Music Festival, attracting many young audiences. play. Cai Donghua, who is good at crossing boundaries, transferred the artistic interpretation of this masterpiece to the stage, cleverly establishing an emotional link between ancient people and modern people, and the food, clothing, music, dance and culture of the Southern Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago can be reproduced on the stage.
Before the performance, a reporter from Changjiang Daily interviewed Cai Donghua and talked about his insights on artistic creation. Cai Donghua revealed that the performance in Wuhan this time was the latest revival version, which was also the 57th performance of the national tour. He said: "There has always been a trend in the industry. Only good artistic works can participate in the Qintai Music Festival. The audience in Wuhan is also very enthusiastic. I like Wuhan very much."
On the afternoon of November 2, drama director and conductor , composer Cai Donghua and his performance team met and communicated with the audience in Wuhan.
After 8 years of polishing, the ancient painting was "revitalized" to the stage.
"Han Xizai's Night Banquet" is one of China's top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. It depicts the scene of a banquet and merrymaking at the residence of Han Xizai, the great eunuch of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in the form of a long scroll. It also will The story of Han Xizai and Empress Li has been preserved to this day in this special art form. Between the five scenes of the prologue "Bodhisattva Barbarian" and "Listen to the Pipa", "Six Units in the King's House", "Have a Break at the Banquet", "Wind Instruments" and "How to Stop the Night Banquet", Cai Donghuan observed and listened to the passage from the perspective of "Tang Bohu" history. During the performance, the audience can see and hear all the characters in the painting appear on stage, and the thousand-year-old scroll slowly unfolds on the stage with rich sounds and colors.
"activating" ancient paintings in the form of musical drama on today's stage, opening up and carrying forward the artistic interest in classics, is one of the keys to making the works "stand-alone". "The play "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" took eight years to develop," Cai Donghua said. The creation of this play came from his own experience. When he was a child, he studied calligraphy and painting, and later studied music, became a conductor, and became a composer. He first wrote a pure musical about "Han Xizai's Night Banquet", which premiered in Shanghai in 2014 and lasted three and a half hours. In 2017, he made another drama version and participated in the Wuzhen Theater Festival. In 2020, everyone began to think about whether it would be possible to recreate a musical with both musical and dramatic elements. In order to better present the repertoire, Cai Donghua reduced the music to only about an hour, added dramatic elements, and finally created this "musical drama". It has gained a good reputation after starting a national tour.
"When we were creating, we didn't think so much about the national style and trend, but now it seems that it is just in line with the current hobbies of many young people." Cai Donghua said that the works currently presented to the audience, It is also a play for young people, with all the actors in their twenties. The "Han Xizai Night Banquet" performed in Wuhan has made some deletions and changes. "The original version was about a couple going to the art gallery to see the exhibition, traveling into the painting, and then using their vision to open a piece of history. During the actual performance, everyone reported that it was very confusing and would skip the scene. The current version is to delete it The couple's "jumping in and out" performance focused entirely on history itself, with Han Xizai and Li Yu appearing directly on the stage. "
On the afternoon of November 2, drama director, conductor, and composer Cai Donghua led the performance team to meet the audience in Wuhan. Meet and communicate.
The return of aesthetics allows young people to feel the beauty of the national trend
"Whether it is "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" or "Music Legend of Dream of Red Mansions" or "Music Legend of Peony Pavilion", in the past ten years, my original intention has never changed and is to convey it to everyone. The beauty of national fashion, the beauty of national fashion drama, the beauty of national fashion music. "Cai Donghua said that the national fashion musical drama "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" is a collision of music and painting, ancient and modern, Chinese music and Western music, and it also uses neoclassical aesthetics. Expressing the exploration of Chinese music, "we hope it can allow the audience to enter the painting and participate in the feast of this painting." At the performance site, the actors will also sit on the stage and invite the audience to drink tea, appreciate paintings, and listen to music. "I hope the audience can enjoy art and feel romance and beauty when watching the performance."
Cai Donghua believes that in recent years, more and more famous paintings have been adapted into stage art works, and most of them have captured the aesthetic connotation of the original paintings. ""Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is more like a TV series, "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" has a movie quality, and "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was arranged into the dance drama "Only Green", which is still a hit." In "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" At the performance site, many young audiences came to watch the show wearing Hanfu. With the rise of the national trend, Cai Donghua is happy to see the audience pursuing such works. “National trend is first of all a kind of cultural self-confidence, and the courage to let traditional things be expressed in the present.” He believes that excellent traditional culture will return to life in a way more suitable for modern aesthetics. “Young people love China’s traditional culture and national trend. Music, it’s a very beautiful thing.”
(Changjiang Daily reporter Huang Lijuan, correspondent Wu Wenlu and Wang Andi)
[Editor: Wang Rongfei]
[Source: Changjiang Daily-Changjiang Net]
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Cai Donghua believes that in recent years, more and more famous paintings have been adapted into stage art works, and most of them have captured the aesthetic connotation of the original paintings. ""Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is more like a TV series, "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" has a movie quality, and "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was arranged into the dance drama "Only Green", which is still a hit." In "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" At the performance site, many young audiences came to watch the show wearing Hanfu. With the rise of the national trend, Cai Donghua is happy to see the audience pursuing such works. “National trend is first of all a kind of cultural self-confidence, and the courage to let traditional things be expressed in the present.” He believes that excellent traditional culture will return to life in a way more suitable for modern aesthetics. “Young people love China’s traditional culture and national trend. Music, it’s a very beautiful thing.”
(Changjiang Daily reporter Huang Lijuan, correspondent Wu Wenlu and Wang Andi)
[Editor: Wang Rongfei]
[Source: Changjiang Daily-Changjiang Net]
Statement: The copyright of this article belongs to the original author. If there is an error in the source or infringement of your legitimate rights and interests , you can contact us via email and we will handle it in time.
On November 3, at the Airport Grand Theater, the Chinese Chao Chao musical "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" directed by drama director, conductor, and composer Cai Donghua appeared at the 13th Qintai Music Festival, attracting many young audiences. play. Cai Donghua, who is good at crossing boundaries, transferred the artistic interpretation of this masterpiece to the stage, cleverly establishing an emotional link between ancient people and modern people, and the food, clothing, music, dance and culture of the Southern Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago can be reproduced on the stage.
Before the performance, a reporter from Changjiang Daily interviewed Cai Donghua and talked about his insights on artistic creation. Cai Donghua revealed that the performance in Wuhan this time was the latest revival version, which was also the 57th performance of the national tour. He said: "There has always been a trend in the industry. Only good artistic works can participate in the Qintai Music Festival. The audience in Wuhan is also very enthusiastic. I like Wuhan very much."
On the afternoon of November 2, drama director and conductor , composer Cai Donghua and his performance team met and communicated with the audience in Wuhan.
After 8 years of polishing, the ancient painting was "revitalized" to the stage.
"Han Xizai's Night Banquet" is one of China's top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. It depicts the scene of a banquet and merrymaking at the residence of Han Xizai, the great eunuch of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in the form of a long scroll. It also will The story of Han Xizai and Empress Li has been preserved to this day in this special art form. Between the five scenes of the prologue "Bodhisattva Barbarian" and "Listen to the Pipa", "Six Units in the King's House", "Have a Break at the Banquet", "Wind Instruments" and "How to Stop the Night Banquet", Cai Donghuan observed and listened to the passage from the perspective of "Tang Bohu" history. During the performance, the audience can see and hear all the characters in the painting appear on stage, and the thousand-year-old scroll slowly unfolds on the stage with rich sounds and colors.
"activating" ancient paintings in the form of musical drama on today's stage, opening up and carrying forward the artistic interest in classics, is one of the keys to making the works "stand-alone". "The play "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" took eight years to develop," Cai Donghua said. The creation of this play came from his own experience. When he was a child, he studied calligraphy and painting, and later studied music, became a conductor, and became a composer. He first wrote a pure musical about "Han Xizai's Night Banquet", which premiered in Shanghai in 2014 and lasted three and a half hours. In 2017, he made another drama version and participated in the Wuzhen Theater Festival. In 2020, everyone began to think about whether it would be possible to recreate a musical with both musical and dramatic elements. In order to better present the repertoire, Cai Donghua reduced the music to only about an hour, added dramatic elements, and finally created this "musical drama". It has gained a good reputation after starting a national tour.
"When we were creating, we didn't think so much about the national style and trend, but now it seems that it is just in line with the current hobbies of many young people." Cai Donghua said that the works currently presented to the audience, It is also a play for young people, with all the actors in their twenties. The "Han Xizai Night Banquet" performed in Wuhan has made some deletions and changes. "The original version was about a couple going to the art gallery to see the exhibition, traveling into the painting, and then using their vision to open a piece of history. During the actual performance, everyone reported that it was very confusing and would skip the scene. The current version is to delete it The couple's "jumping in and out" performance focused entirely on history itself, with Han Xizai and Li Yu appearing directly on the stage. "
On the afternoon of November 2, drama director, conductor, and composer Cai Donghua led the performance team to meet the audience in Wuhan. Meet and communicate.
The return of aesthetics allows young people to feel the beauty of the national trend
"Whether it is "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" or "Music Legend of Dream of Red Mansions" or "Music Legend of Peony Pavilion", in the past ten years, my original intention has never changed and is to convey it to everyone. The beauty of national fashion, the beauty of national fashion drama, the beauty of national fashion music. "Cai Donghua said that the national fashion musical drama "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" is a collision of music and painting, ancient and modern, Chinese music and Western music, and it also uses neoclassical aesthetics. Expressing the exploration of Chinese music, "we hope it can allow the audience to enter the painting and participate in the feast of this painting." At the performance site, the actors will also sit on the stage and invite the audience to drink tea, appreciate paintings, and listen to music. "I hope the audience can enjoy art and feel romance and beauty when watching the performance."
Cai Donghua believes that in recent years, more and more famous paintings have been adapted into stage art works, and most of them have captured the aesthetic connotation of the original paintings. ""Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is more like a TV series, "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" has a movie quality, and "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was arranged into the dance drama "Only Green", which is still a hit." In "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" At the performance site, many young audiences came to watch the show wearing Hanfu. With the rise of the national trend, Cai Donghua is happy to see the audience pursuing such works. “National trend is first of all a kind of cultural self-confidence, and the courage to let traditional things be expressed in the present.” He believes that excellent traditional culture will return to life in a way more suitable for modern aesthetics. “Young people love China’s traditional culture and national trend. Music, it’s a very beautiful thing.”
(Changjiang Daily reporter Huang Lijuan, correspondent Wu Wenlu and Wang Andi)
[Editor: Wang Rongfei]
[Source: Changjiang Daily-Changjiang Net]
Statement: The copyright of this article belongs to the original author. If there is an error in the source or infringement of your legitimate rights and interests , you can contact us via email and we will handle it in time.Email address: [email protected]
