"Birds in pairs on the trees, couples returning home", as the most popular classic in the history of Huangmei Opera, "The Match of the Immortals" is a household name. This drama was first brought to Shanghai by Huangmei Opera performing artists Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang in 1

"Birds in pairs on the trees, couples returning home", as the most popular classic in the history of Huangmei Opera, "The Match of the Immortals" is a household name. This drama was first brought to Shanghai by Huangmei Opera performing artists Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang in 1954 , participated in the first opera viewing and performance conference in East China and became an instant hit. A year later, the two starred in the Huangmei Opera movie "A Fairy's Match" of the same name, which was filmed by the Shanghai Film Studio. After its release, it became a rage and was well-known throughout the country.

From a small local opera, it has become one of the top five opera types in the country. Huangmei Opera and "The Fairy's Match" both became famous in Shanghai. 70 years later, Anhui Huangmei Opera Theater, where Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang worked, came to Shanghai again with the latest third edition of "A Fairy's Match", which was performed on the Shaw Stage on November 20. Starring in the play is Plum Blossom Award winner Yuan Yuan, who is also the fourth generation of "Seven Fairies" in theater history. Her co-starring actor Dong Yong is national first-class actor Zhao Zhangwei.

As a favorite of Huangmei Opera, the importance of the "Seven Fairies" in "The Match" is undoubted. Over the past 70 years, the "Seven Fairies" have been passed down in an orderly manner. As the fourth generation, Yuan Yuan studied under the second-generation "Seven Fairies" and one of the "Five Golden Flowers" of Huangmei Opera, Wu Yaling, and inherited and took over this role from her.

In April this year, the Huangmei Opera Theater of Anhui Province performed a national tour, and performed this play at its first stop in Shanghai. Yuan Yuan still vividly remembers the enthusiasm of the Shanghai audience. "Our Huangmei Opera Theater in Anhui Province has a special connection with Shanghai. At that time, Huangmei Opera became famous in Shanghai, and the song it sang was "The Fairy's Match". Later, the first black-and-white Huangmei Opera movie was made at the Shanghai Film Studio, making this melody and the image of the Seven Fairies fly. Entering thousands of households."

Although this is the second time she has come to Shanghai to perform the play, Yuan Yuan said that she often plays the role of Chang Xin in "The Match" and she took over the role of "Seven Fairies". It has been more than ten years, and now it is the third revised version. "This year is the 70th anniversary of "The Fairy Match" being put on the stage. We have been upright and innovative, inherited the traditions of the older generation, and at the same time, we have used the aesthetic method that young people like to bring it to life." This play has been performed for the current audience. "

Yuan Yuan was born in Hefei, Anhui. She began to be exposed to Huangmei Opera at the age of 6, and was admitted to the Huangmei Class of Anhui Art School at the age of 13. At the age of 17, Yuan Yuan was admitted to the Huangmei Opera Theater of Anhui Province with the first place in her major. In the theater, she studied under Wu Yaling and became her only apprentice. She received Wu Yaling's personal instruction and passed down the play "The Match". So far, Yuan Yuan and "Seven Fairies" have been together on stage for more than ten years. Last year, for this role, Yuan Yuan won the Plum Blossom Award, the highest award in Chinese opera.

has gone through three editions in more than ten years. This edition of "The Fairy's Match" is more in line with the aesthetics of the current era. The length of the entire play has been compressed to two hours and five scenes, the overall rhythm is more compact, and the stage design is simple and beautiful.

As for performance, Yuan Yuan has been thinking about how to deepen and innovate herself in addition to inheriting the performance skills of the older generation. For example, how to highlight the rhythm and priorities of singing and reciting, and how to make the performance grounded and full of meaning.

In various subtle character treatments, Yuan Yuan used her artistic talent and understanding of the repertoire to enrich and update the emotional connotation of the Seven Fairies, and is considered to have "infused this classic character with the beauty of the times." From the young girl in love in "Magpie Bridge", to the well-married bride in "Lu Yu", to the virtuous and loyal wife in "Shang Gong" and "Weaving Silk", to the torture in "The Parting" The separation of "Seven Fairies" is not only the change of identity from fairy to wife, but also the inner tempering and personality growth of women in life experience. The changes in mood and externalization in different scenes of this version of "Seven Fairies" have become particularly clear.

In recent years, Yuan Yuan has brought "Seven Fairies" to campus and overseas, spreading Huangmei Opera in various ways. She has participated in the online live broadcasts of "The Match" and "The Concubine", with the most one broadcast having more than 4.8 million views and a total of more than 11 million views. She expressed the hope that more and more young people would fall in love with Huangmei Opera and make Huangmei Opera become more and more "younger".