Chao News client reporter Liu Yuhan.
Guest speaker: Mao Weitao
Mao Weitao is a famous Yue Opera performance artist and vice chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association.
She is the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of Yue Opera, and the producer, chief producer and artistic director of the recent hit Yue Opera "New Dragon Gate Inn".
The environment-style Yue opera "New Dragon Gate Inn" exploded on the whole network this year, attracting audiences from all over the country, so that it was difficult to find a ticket, setting off a "Yue Opera fever".
As the "head" behind it, Mao Weitao has been exploring the innovative road of Yue Opera ......
I recently saw some comments saying that Mao Weitao is very out of line every time he acts, and he has been touching the boundaries in **.
I think the biggest challenge for a true art person is to challenge the boundaries of your art. I often touch it, and then I know that I can't go any further, and if I go any further, it won't be a Yue Opera, and I may take it back. But when I touch this, I'll go on another road and touch it again.
As we continue to explore, innovate, and expand ourselves, slowly, the territory of this art is also constantly expanding, and its audience is also increasing.
Especially in recent years, the Internet era has brought too many challenges to traditional art, and the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys. It's like we have a craft, and we have to find a way for people to see and appreciate it.
The innovation of "New Dragon Gate Inn" is first reflected in the change of style, that is, from the Grand Theater to a young people's like, environmental, immersive environment. But looking back and looking at it, weren't our Song Dynasty Goolan Washer and our Yuan miscellaneous dramas all performed like this at that time?In fact, this form is precisely people-oriented, and it can bring people real enjoyment of watching the play.
The audience and the actors are in the same space, and the audience and the actors can interact with each other in close and zero distance, which is a sense of field and participation that cannot be achieved in the virtual world built by computers and the Internet today. It's really here, like eating under a lamp at home, and you can really feel that authenticity, which is what people need today, and everyone needs to have a real experience.
In addition, Jia Ting is the most concentrated character in the adaptation part of "New Dragon Gate", and Chen Lijun plays Jia Ting.
In fact, it was first arranged for me to play Jia Ting. After I played more and more decent roles, I really wanted to play one that I hadn't been exposed to before, so when it came to this arrangement, I gladly accepted.
In the end, it was decided to let the children touch it first, and we were the teachers in the back, so we were the first to take Jia Ting down, and I poured the most into this role.
Jia Ting has a little martial arts feeling, but after all, he is from Dongchang, and he has a dark side in his heart, and he also has a feminine temperament in his gender. These two things are there, and he is not sunny. He may be a little sympathetic when he looks at people or sits there, so I deliberately designed some movements.
In terms of singing, I also cut very carefully, and designed the characters, emotions, and characteristics of this ** image, that is, how this character sings.
His singing voice can't just be the traditional "four-work ruler tune", for example, the sentences of "Guanyi Bureau", I want to integrate the singing of Wen Qijiu, the villain of Peking Opera "Cuckoo Mountain", so that a few words of singing, the image of Jia Ting's little villain will come out, which is completely different from the feeling of traditional Yue Opera.
That's how we came out for 5 months. Therefore, any work of art is not achieved overnight, and today's "New Dragon Gate" suddenly out of the circle is not a pie in the sky, it must be through the efforts of generation after generation to today, there is this achievement.
What's next, what should be done after the "new gantry"?That's something I've been thinking about lately.
Personally, it's okay to make a show or whatever, but what should the whole industry do?In other words, if the play "New Dragon Gate" marks a step forward in an industry, as if stepping on the aesthetics of today's young people, then the next step is to walk in the first place
There is a data left there, 80% of the audience of "New Dragon Gate" has never watched Yue Opera. These 80% have come to you, which is really good for us!Of course, it's no problem to come in first, but I hope that they will not only snort CP in the future, not just to see the handsomeness of a girl pretending to be a man, and what to see in the end, a kind of oriental beauty that is truly expressed in the performing art of women's Yue Opera.
I hope that this 80% can be left with another part to continue to track and convert into fan traffic for each work. It's like "Sound into the Heart" has driven the box office of ** dramas, maybe because "New Dragon Gate Inn" can drive the traffic of a group of new Yue Opera fans, at least the box office of Yue Opera can also be driven.
I heard from the Beijing box office group that even the box office in Beijing has changed a lot, and I am very happy, and I feel as if I can continue to do this.
Now that Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao are a box office appeal, we can't see that they are selling tickets very well at present, how long can they sell them?What's their next ticket?I think this is what a crew, a troupe, and an art should really think about.
I'm sure the kids are thinking about it, and I'm sure the generations will keep trying it on their own. When I really retire, I'm sure the next ** people will do the same. But of course, it is not Mao Weitao's approach.
Calligraphy "Revival" Zhang Aiguo Book Note: Teacher Mao was unable to attend the scene due to the performance, and the staff received her key words on her behalf.
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