Chao News Client Correspondent Xu Yan Wang Wei
Yongshang Fenghua The spring is coming. On April 12, the launch ceremony of the "Literature and Art Endows Beauty with Drama" Project and the Spiritual Civilization Promotion Activity in Shounan Street, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City kicked off. The English version of the Yue Opera short film "Chen Po's Journey Across Thousand Years" met the audience for the first time.
"Chen Po's Crossing Over a Thousand Years" is based on the historical legend of "Chen Po's Good Crossing". It is one of the representative works of a batch of Yue Opera short plays rooted in regional culture created by the Yinzhou Yue Opera Troupe in recent years. It has been rated as an outstanding literary and artistic project in Yinzhou District.
"Last year I was invited to watch the premiere of the Yue Opera drama "Mr. Chen's Journey Through a Thousand Years", and I was very pleasantly surprised. The plot and singing of this little drama were very contagious, and it led me to understand the story of Granny Chen, and then I was Chen Po’s kindness has been passed down for thousands of years. I think this is both an excellent traditional Chinese virtue and a carrier of traditional Chinese opera, which is very suitable for ‘going out’.” At the beginning of this year, Liu Liyuan, a teacher at the Foreign Languages School of Zhejiang Wanli University, spent two months on it. This little drama is translated into English. Teacher Liu claims to be a middle-aged fan of traditional Chinese opera culture. In the past few years, she has been committed to the dissemination of opera. She has offered the elective course "Appreciation of Opera" in colleges and universities to bring the beauty of opera to campus. At the same time, international students were brought into the theater to experience opera and so on.
It is reported that the performance video of the Yue opera short drama "Chen Po's Journey Across the Thousand Years" will be produced with Chinese and English subtitles and will be disseminated online on major online platforms.
Listening to and singing operas is the daily life of people in Shounan Street. Among them, the "Lizhi Yayi" Yue Opera Club has a group of opera fans with an average age of 65. They take the initiative to promote opera and make more young people fall in love with opera.
Wang Jinwen, a national first-class actor, famous Ningbo opera master and Plum Blossom Award winner, was hired as a gold medal opera instructor. She said that she would lead a team of tutors into communities, business districts, campuses, etc. to help opera blossom locally. On the day of the event, the "Hometown of Opera in Zhejiang Province" was officially awarded. In the future, the street will make every effort to create a model for the "Inheritance and Revitalization of Opera" in the south.
This year, Shounan Street, together with Ningbo Yong Opera Research and Transmission Center and Yinzhou District Yue Opera Art Transmission Center, jointly developed hundreds of Yue Opera and Yong Opera quality teaching courses to enhance the theoretical literacy and professional abilities of opera lovers in the area.
Shounan Street promotes the three major projects of "popularization, benefiting the people, and revitalization" to build a new pattern of national opera in Shounan. Just at the end of last year, Shounan Street was awarded the fourth batch of "Hometown of Opera in Zhejiang Province". It was also the first town and street in Yinzhou District to win this honor.
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