Tonight, when many people in Hengyang rushed to the sports center to chase stars, few people may know about the lively scene of the Grand Theater of the Municipal Culture and Art Center two days ago.
At 7 p.m. on December 1, in front of the Grand Theater of the Municipal Culture and Art Center, young people were crowded. Half an hour later, the performance of Kunqu Opera "The Peony Pavilion" began. "It's the first time I've seen so many young people come to see the play. A theater manager said with surprise that such a scene was not only the first time she had seen it in the Grand Theater, but also the first time she had seen it in Hengyang.
Stills from the performance of "The Peony Pavilion".
"Peony Pavilion" ushered in the young people of Hengyang to "chase stars".
In order to witness how popular this performance is, the reporter deliberately ran the first, second, and third floors of the Grand Theater, with a total of more than 1,200 seats in the theater, and there are only very few vacant seats left, and at least half of them are young people, and few people leave the theater halfway.
The Peony Pavilion is one of the four major classical dramas in China. This time, the provincial Kunqu Opera Troupe's Tianxiang version of "The Peony Pavilion" premiered in Hengyang, bringing the elegance and vulgarity of "high mountains and flowing water". Some of the lyrics are quite "net-like" even if they are put into the present, which seems to be very suitable for the taste of young people.
For example, when Liu Sheng was amazed by the beauty of his "dream lover" Du Liniang, he couldn't help but shout "Sister......I'll call her a few more times." The popular lyrics, hippie and funny demeanor, and witty and funny opera tone successfully made everyone laugh. Of course, that doesn't affect everyone to be moved by the elegant sentence "Dreams are short dreams and long dreams, and what year is the year".
When the show ended, the audience rose from their seats. When the first faint applause rang out, more people were immediately infected, and thunderous applause instantly resounded throughout the audience. After that, the actors' group photo session became a star-chasing scene, and young audiences poured onto the stage to take photos with the two leading actors.
After the performance, young "theater fans" poured onto the stage to take photos with the leading actors.
"Hualiu" drives the inheritance of the new generation
Classical drama has the functions of cultural inheritance and moral education, and has a strong transmission power in ancient society, and even today it still has a deep mass base.
In Hengyang, the local "four major troupes" are very popular with the people, with profound Hunan opera, Hengzhou flower drum opera, Qi opera, both traditional and modern song and dance dramas, and a number of national and provincial intangible cultural heritage protection projects and inheritors. The Hengyang theater industry has rehearsed performances such as "Zhuang Zhou Dream Butterfly" and "Jiashen Sacrifice", and top masters such as Liu Heping, a national first-class screenwriter, have emerged.
In the past, the city's "Ten Decade Performance", "Zhou Zhou Le", "People's Theater" and other Huimin performance activities, both indoor and outdoor, were almost all popular and crowded. However, the audience has always been dominated by the elderly, and young people are rarely seen.
Nowadays, why do young people suddenly like classical theater?
It's shocking, it's beautiful!It is not the same as other forms of artistic expression such as film. ”
Willing to try to accept and like classical drama. ”
I usually watch it at station B, but it's the first time I watch it in the theater. ”
When I was a child, I watched a play with my grandfather on the stage, and I hope that Hengyang will carry out more such drama performances."
After the performance, the reporter randomly interviewed several students from the University of South China outside the theater. From their answers, there is not only a love for classical drama, but also a love for the older generation.
Of course, young people's popularity of "The Peony Pavilion" has a lot to do with this publicity method. The premiere belongs to one of the "Yayun Sanxiang Art Run Four Waters" elegant art into the grassroots activities, and the City Song and Dance Troupe Co., Ltd., which manages the Grand Theater, entrusts a third party to sell tickets online and launch 9The ticket price ranges from 9 yuan to 80 yuan. At the beginning of the promotion of the event, it aimed at the young people, and released a short ** trailer on Douyin and opened up a ticket sales channel.
University students pose for a photo in front of a promotional poster.
College students' hobbies are different from ours in the past, they like 'Hualiu' and don't reject tradition. When chatting with a colleague, he commented naturally. Indeed, when the little girl who was held by her grandfather to watch the play grew up and looked for the play by herself, we saw the meaning of the arduous inheritance of generations of opera people.
Never doubt the aesthetics of your ancestors. After watching "The Peony Pavilion", a Douyin netizen left a very popular mantra in the comment area.
So, is Hengyang ready?The rise of "Hualiu" may bring greater imagination to Hengyang Opera and Hengyang Grand Theater.
Reporter Luo Wenpeng Editor Huang Mu).