Text丨Li Weiwei.
On the evening of February 11 (the second day of the Lunar New Year), the 2024 Hunan Opera Spring Festival Gala hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and the Hunan Radio, Film and Television Group (Hunan Radio and Television Station) will be broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV. The innovative integration of traditional culture and TV programs has successfully attracted the attention of the majority of netizens.
The Hunan Opera Spring Festival Gala has been held for 6 consecutive years, and it has always been a gathering and event in the cultural and artistic circles. This year, the joining of Hunan Satellite TV has expanded a new vocabulary of expression for stage art and broadened the audience. The Hunan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism sent an outstanding young creator and performance team to work with the director team of Hunan Satellite TV to present the audience with a traditional and fashionable, warm and brisk, elegant and youthful, heavy and prosperous cultural feast; Through the TV presentation of "a good show with two sides wonderful", many behind-the-scenes artistic creations were also shown to the audience.
The core of culture is led by youth.
It is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point.
We were pleasantly surprised to find that in recent years, with the rapid update and iteration of data and information, the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture have gradually become the "password" of traffic. From the main radio and television station to the local station to the short platform, traditional cultural content such as poetry, classics, traditional Chinese medicine, architecture, dance, grottoes, murals, operas, and costumes are favored. Let the cultural relics come alive, let the classics "speak", and get close to the traditional culture has become a new fashion for young people.
At this party, the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism brought a century-old stage art - opera, and Mango Stage, which represents happy youth, to a strong alliance. The main creative team is all "post-80s" and "post-90s", which concentrates the backbone of the Hunan Opera Troupe, the Art Vocational College and the Art Research Institute, and reflects profound artistic attainments and professionalism from program creativity to execution.
With a sound of "It's time to open the gong!" Representatives of various fields of opera appeared on the stage, from "Bangs Chopping Wood", "The Story of the West Chamber", "Selling Water", "The Story of the Moon", "Pinggui Farewell Kiln", "War Horse Chao", "Three Forks" and other classic opera repertoire familiar to the audience and the audience and friends came out of the play and led the audience and friends into the party scene. The actors are wearing python clothes and armor, with their backs tied to the flag, full of vitality and brilliance, and the "four skills and five methods" of different performances will be full of New Year's flavor at once.
Both festival culture and opera culture are part of traditional culture, and they are the collective memory, spiritual yearning and emotional sustenance of Chinese. In the blend of ancient opera art and modern stage, every face is filled with youthful self-confidence, a cultural and martial arts field, a Hunan sound, evoking the nostalgia in our hearts. At this moment, it is no longer important who the people in the play are and why they "sing, read, do, and play", but the most eternal sense of cultural identity in the heart.
The profound accumulation of Huxiang opera culture and the stunts created by the collective wisdom of the working people have provided a strong cultural core for the innovation of television art, and provided more possibilities for the creativity of "everything can be used in opera". Pop** and "Shiro Visits the Mother", dance and opera costumes, **drama "Phantom of the Opera" and Flower Drum Opera, light and shadow art and shadow puppetry, opera, XR technology and Kunqu Opera, the cultural tourism team and the TV team continue to unlock new surprises in the collision again and again.
The appearance of drama in pop songs enriches the expression of pop **, bringing shocking and tear-jerking reverie and moving. The Beijing folk song "Shiro Visits the Mother 2024" was specially created by the original creative team of the Internet celebrity song "Wujiapo 2021" for this opera Spring Festival Gala. Justice and family affection resonate with the audience in an art form that transcends time and space. Fashion is the reincarnation of aesthetics, and innovation is the password of fashion. In the inheritance and development of opera, only openness and inclusiveness can win the recognition of the audience.
The Q version of the little cute baby in the children's Peking Opera "Little Rookie Debut" has become a "plus meal" for uncles, aunts, grandfathers, and grandmothers in front of the TV. The children's moves, smiles, and smiles are like beating seeds, knocking on the cultural fertile soil of the land of Huxiang. In recent years, Hunan has promoted "opera into schools" in more professional and richer forms such as opera recess exercises, opera short plays, and drama clubs, and children's enthusiasm for opera culture has become more and more intense. As artists, we look forward to the flourishing of foliage.
A good show, double-sided wonderful.
We were deeply touched by the TV station's choreographer's team's respect for the art of Chinese opera and artists, who gave full play to the advantages of TV art and presented the superb performances of the artists on and off the stage through wonderful and innovative expressions on and off stage, and also showed the "heroes" behind the scenes to the audience and friends. All the work of the choreographer, band teachers, make-up artists, movement directors, stylists and costumers became part of the evening performance.
Last year, the ** who grabbed makeup backstage of opera performances frequently went out of the circle on the short** platform, and netizens saw the hardships and dedication of the actors through these, and also saw the professionalism of the opera people. In this year's opera Spring Festival Gala, the host Wang Han will incarnate the head of the opera troupe, starting from the backstage of the party, and bringing you the opening of the opera troupe that you have never seen from the first perspective, which is flexible, vivid and interesting. The band teachers also took to the screen, proudly introducing the role of the martial arts field to the audience and interacting with the host. The allure of television art makes the story behind the stage art legendary.
The richness and profundity of the art of opera are not only the colors and styles we see on stage, but also the wisdom and aesthetic emotions behind it. The power and story behind it are presented at a glimpse in this opera Spring Festival Gala, and the super high attention brought by it is worthy of our art workers' thinking and continuous cultivation.
In the program of "Plum Blossom Herald", the "Plum Blossom Award" winners Zhang Xuan and Xiao Xiaobo respectively performed the four beauties of ancient China, and each person needed to complete the task of changing costumes and makeup within three minutes while performing.
At the party, the sketches performed by the Hunan Xiang Theater were witty and funny, but also led to a ** wall, which hung on the wall were all couples who became acquainted with Hunan opera because of the opera, many families and even generations have adhered to this career, and they have dedicated their youth and love to Hunan stage art. This love and sweetness also warmed the hearts of the audience through the screen of the Spring Festival Gala.
The most touching thing about the whole party was the gathering of Zhong Yichun, Gong Guyin, Li Xiaojia, and Liu Zhaoqian, four Hunan Flower Drum Opera performance artists with an average age of 85 years old. The old girlfriends carefully planned a warm art retrospective exhibition for the first generation of "Aunt Liu" actor of the classic flower drum opera "Mending the Pot" for the 75th anniversary of the art.
Technology empowers cross-border revitalization.
Poetry and distance are poetic expressions of the integration of culture and tourism, and this time the program "Peony Pavilion and Garden" from the Kunqu Opera Troupe of Hunan Province perfectly interprets this proposition. As one of the world's first UNESCO "Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" projects, Kunqu Opera is a living fossil of Chinese opera, and the Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe has been committed to inheriting and protecting this traditional culture.
Kunqu opera has a long history and is intact, with strict text, song form and rhythm requirements, every subtle movement, every tactful singing lyrics, all contain profound cultural connotations, from "singing, reading, doing, playing" to costumes, props, and dance, all of which show the breadth and profundity of the art of opera.
Therefore, from the perspective of the drama itself, innovation is not an easy task. On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala of Chinese opera, Du Liniang, who is dignified and beautiful and full of style, led the audience to travel the beautiful scenery of Huxiang with the help of XR** technology. The technology-enabled film and television presentation not only retains the aesthetic and pure charm of opera, but also realizes the communication power of "1+1>2". The magnificent scenery of mountains and rivers baptized by the vicissitudes of life and the sound of nature across time and space through TV, take us to knock on the door of time and space, this eye through the millennium, this eye insight into the present, this eye also across the future.
Through the switching of light and shadow, the small shadow puppet also walked out of the curtain this time with the attitude of "standing up to the sky", and the combination of live performance and shadow puppet realized the leap from two-dimensional to multi-dimensional space. The unique style of opera has given a new rhythm to opera through cross-border play, which is undoubtedly a popular expression for modern stages and young audiences. The creative team and performing artists have almost strict aesthetic requirements and strong execution ability for this program, realizing the seamless connection of various drama types, trades, lighting and sound, and breaking through the limitations of different art forms. **The cross-border singing combining drama and opera is lively and witty, and has also won the love of audiences of all ages.
With the return of Hunan artists such as Zhang Ye and Wu Bixia and the joint efforts of artists in our province, the opera Spring Festival Gala is not only an artistic feast, but also a new expression of inheritance and innovation. Here, we witnessed the brilliant sparks of youth fashion and traditional culture blooming in the collision of passion. Through these attempts, we also better understand that creative transformation and innovative development are the fundamental ways to achieve the integrity and innovation of traditional culture. It is hoped that the art of Hunan opera can gain more audiences and produce excellent works frequently.
The author is a screenwriter of the Hunan Provincial Academy of Arts).
Disclaimer: Huasheng** maintains neutrality in the statements and opinions in the text, and does not provide any express or implied guarantee for the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the content contained. The article is the author's personal opinion and should not be used as an investment basis. Readers should understand all the relevant investment risks in detail and take full responsibility for them. Some articles are submitted and published by online authors, and the copyright belongs to the contributing authors. The author shall be responsible for the authenticity and copyright of the article and **. Once a copyright dispute arises and the right holder raises an objection, Huasheng** will delete the corresponding content in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations. The liability for infringement shall be borne by the contributor, and the contributor shall be liable for compensation if the loss of Huasheng ** is caused thereby. If you have any objections to this article, please contact us 38160107 Change to @)qqcom。