The 8th Chinese Opera Micro Film Award-winning Works Exhibition and Awards Ceremony was recently held at the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater in Beijing, and the opera micro-film jointly produced by Gansu Qinxiang Art Theater and Lanzhou Shengjing Cultural Communication - Gansu Qinxiang "Cai Wenji" stood out from more than 300 opera drama film works across the country and won the 8th Chinese Opera Drama Micro Film Outstanding Art Film Award.
Stills from the performance of Qin Yan's "Cai Wenji".
Qin Yan's "Cai Wenji" specially invited Zhang Hong, associate professor of Shanghai Theater Academy and first-class screenwriter, directed by famous director Han Jianying, composed by first-class composer Guo Quanquan, Cheng Changning, professor of Xi'an University of Arts and Sciences, Qin Wenbao, professor of China Academy of Theatre and first-class stage designer, and Ma Xudong, first-class stage designer. Su Fengli, a first-class actor and winner of the "Plum Blossom Award" for Chinese drama, led the starring role, Song Shaofeng, a second-class actor and a leading talent in national opera performance, Ma Yong, president of Gansu Qinqiang Art Theater, and all the cast and crew of Gansu Qinxiang Art Theater worked together to create a very strong lineup. After more than 5 years of creation and revision, the play breaks the impression of "Cai Wenji" in traditional dramas, digs deep into the characteristics of the characters, and makes a generation of female literati Cai Wenji reappear on today's opera stage with strong artistic display.
It is reported that the screening of opera micro-films is an innovative activity that integrates Chinese opera art, film and television technology and new technology, aiming to inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture through new carriers, expand the influence of traditional culture among the masses, and attract more young people to participate in the inheritance and development of opera culture. (Wen Xin Gansu Gansu ** reporter Shi Xiuping).