Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Huang Zhouhui
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On October 4, the national opera “Quanxiong Praise” will be officially premiered in the Opera Hall of the Guangzhou Grand Theater. The play is a key support program of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China’s National Opera InheritanceBabaylan 1990 cloth draw Development Project” and the “Historical Theme Creation Project”, telling the story of the ups and downs behind the overseas Chinese criticism. The play was produced by the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhuhai High-tech Zone Management Committee. It was produced by the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group and performed by the Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe. The main and creative actors and crew members worked together for two years to create and schedule.
Babaylan 1990 cloth draw Stills from the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary”
Art presents the national spirit of historical themes
Overseas Chinese Commentary is a general term for letters and remittances sent back to domestic relatives through private channels and financial and postal institutions. It is a carrier of “convergence of letters” and is called letters across the sea. It once flourished in the coastal areas of Guangdong.
The national opera “Overseas Criticism” started with the fact that Chinese worker Liang Chengru was sold to his hometown to prevent his daughter from being like himself. He hurried to his hometown but died at sea. A “pplication” left by his death began. Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw was forced to sell his daughter Dongshi and Liang Caiyun, who had to sell his daughter, the mother-in-law who had been lying on sick for a long time, Tang Youxin, and his wife, and many Chinese workers who empathized with Liang Chengru., showing the compatriots who are righteous in the years of suffering, reflecting the great love of the Chinese nation rooted in the bone marrow and flowing in the blood.
Ethnic SongCinema 1950 witch cloth draw Stills from the drama “Overseas Commentary”
How to make a piece of Overseas Commentary and present it artistically and humanly on the stage is a proposition for opera creation. The screenwriter of the play, Wang Yong, said: “A letter of criticism is the starting point of the story and the fulcrum of the story. This ‘fulcrum’ links the past, present and present life of the Chinese nation. Only when Babaylan 1990 cloth draw expresses human nature and human feelings, can it be possible to break the barriers of time and be closer to the overseas Chinese and Chinese workers in the past on the emotional level, so that the “Overseas Chinese Criticism” is no longer an exhibition in the museum’s window, making history no longer a cold text and pictures, making the story more humane and a warm, touching and shocking light.”
The top team spent two years to create the national opera “Overseas Chinese Criticism” gathered the top artists in the industry – China MusicCinema 1950 witch cloth drawLejia Association Consultant, former head of the China Railway Art Troupe, and first-class composer Meng Weidong, as the composer, was the composer, Vice Chairman of the China Drama Association, President of the National Peking Opera Theater, and First-class Screenwriter Wang Yong, as the screenwriter, former vice president and doctoral supervisor of the Central Academy of Drama Liao Xianghong and Deng Yijiang, former vice president of the National Grand Theater and former vice president of the Beijing Dance Academy, were the director. The permanent conductor of the Central Opera House and the Central Committee of Babaylan 1990 clothes DrawPostdoctoral fellow and young conductor Zhu Man, and young conductor Fan Jie serve as the orchestra conductor and chorus conductor respectively. In addition, he invited the national first-class stage lighting maker Zhou Zhengping and Zhizhi’s famous stage designer Babaylan 1990 cloth drawKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawDing Ding, well-known fashion designer Cui Xiaodong and other artists assisted, starring young singers Lu Wei, Li Yang, Dong Bin and Li Bufan.
Stills from the national opera “Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawAbroad Comment”
In the spring of 2021, the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group decided to start the creation of the national opera “Abroad Comment”. In July of the same year, Zhuhai Performing Arts Group organized a creative team to go to Zhuhai Tangjia, Jiangmen and other places to collect folk songs. When visiting the Overseas Chinese Museum in Jiangmen Wuwu, the situation of early Chinese workers traveling across the ocean on fire boats, the miserable scenes that Chinese workers could not bear to witness, and the dangerous and unpredictable Pacific Ocean and foreign countries brought huge impacts to the main creators.
The main creative team held several planning meetings in Beijing and Zhuhai. Screenwriter Wang Yong refined and processed them based on historical facts, changed his draft several times, and revised it repeatedly; Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw composition Meng Weidong closely followed the plot and integrated music and lyrics; director Liao Xianghong firmly grasped the characteristics and advantages of national opera, and vividly presented the righteousness and love of the characters in the play.
Re-polishing makes the play more Guangdong-style
The national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” sets up characters and structures the entire play with a letter and a letter. “Overseas Chinese Commentary” and “The Sea” have different symbolic meanings. “Overseas Chinese Commentary” is a letter of family, a letter of silver, and a bond connecting the hometown and a foreign land thousands of miles apart. It is a symbol of commitment and faith. A “Overseas Chinese Praise” signed by a hundred people is a transmission of love for overseas Chinese, showing the suffering, homesickness and family and country feelings of Chinese workers. Their good deeds and righteous deeds are also important manifestations of the Chinese nation’s credibility and commitments; the sea is a road of life, a barrier, and a symbol of fate that is difficult to control in life.
In terms of music style, the play is based on deep, atmospheric, heavy and lyrical as its overall music style, with very distinctive musical characteristics and themes – using Guangdong music as the tone, it has strong Lingnan music characteristics. Fluent and emotional melody expresses the characters’ emotions and exaggerates the characters’ emotions;The play enhances the action and drama of the characters; the orchest uses a variety of national instruments to fully demonstrate the charm of Chinese traditional culture.
Stills from the national opera “Qiqian Comment”
In the stage presentation, the play has distinct contemporary and regional characteristics. It takes the sea as the main spatial image, follows the aesthetic principles of freehand painting, and creates a grand, ethereal and poetic space. The scene setting of virtual and real, and the juxtaposition of physics and psychological time and space externalize and poetically the inner world of the characters, bringing stronger inner impact to the audience.
It is reported that the national opera “Qiqian Criticism” is the first opera work created by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group in just two and a half years. After being auditioned at the Zhuhai Grand Theater on July 3, it took another three months to polish it. The play was premiered in this performance in Guangdong, Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, which strengthened local characteristics in stage design and multimedia design, highlighting the eastern elements of Guangdong, and the plot setting emphasizes the conflicts in the inner conflicts of the characters and the contradictions in the relationship between the characters, and also more concise and improves the theme.