Wu Jingjing, chief reporter of Elephant News Oriental News.
From "watching opera" to "loving opera", there may only be one opera Spring Festival Gala left! "2024 Hunan Opera Spring Festival Gala" will be staged on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV on the evening of February 11, the second day of the Lunar New Year! The Elephant News reporter learned that this is the first opera evening in the country to be opened from the perspective of the backstage, and the dual space of the front + behind-the-scenes narrative will be used to show the interaction and cooperation between the front and back of the stage, and reveal the creation process of the precise and tacit understanding of Chinese opera art.
If a party is turned into a large-scale theater performance, with a panoramic view of the front and back scenes of the troupe, when there are many good performances on stage, what are you doing backstage? Is it organized or in a hurry? The play is exciting, and the play is lively. According to the main creator of the show, this time it will break through the single-line narrative form of the traditional evening party, and open its arms to all audiences in the innovative form of "backstage perspective" and "close at hand", so that the audience who enters with the "heart of a spectator" will unconsciously want to become a "person in the play" while immersively experiencing the opera. On the stage, with the gathering of heroes and wonderful performances, the vitality of the most beautiful Huxiang opera with a history of 600 years is also fully radiated; Behind the stage, you can also follow the footsteps of the actors to directly hit the behind-the-scenes countdown to grab the costume, randomly enter the backstage to experience the explosion of drama makeup, and unlock all kinds of unprecedented behind-the-scenes participation experiences with one click, "I hope to shorten the distance with traditional opera in an all-round way, and let the audience understand the 'one minute on stage, ten years off the stage' behind the opera."
The pearlescent helmet is an important identifying color in opera, and the helmet usually shows a flowing color with the tumbling and fluttering of the opera actors. But can the audience imagine what it would look like to combine traditional opera helmets with modern elements? According to the main creator, the inspiration for the stage design of this evening party is to integrate the opera helmet into the modern stage design. The abstract and magnified shape of the headdress forms the main structure of the stage, and the controllable microphone jazz lamp is used to show the magnificence and change of the headdress. With the support of innovative techniques of science and technology, modern elements quietly show the freehand beauty of opera to the fullest. The party also innovatively interpreted the content of traditional opera through the adaptation of the second creation. The well-known opera stories such as "The Peony Pavilion and the Garden", "Tongguang Thirteen Uniques", "Shilang Visits the Mother" and "The Legend of the White Snake" have presented a new look, and through cross-border, mix-and-match, fusion, new compilation, etc., combined with XR, spatial projection and other technical means, the classic opera content has a deep collision with Chinese aesthetics, the aesthetics of the times and innovative elements, bringing the fission effect from "national style aesthetics" to "cultural self-confidence", and rejuvenating the new charm of Huxiang opera. "Our party is a good show, full of highlights, the audience can feel, whether it is the visual presentation or the content arrangement, there are all kinds of surprises that are both 'reasonable' and 'unexpected', and the audience is also sighing' opera can still play like this?' ’”
Promoting the characteristic opera of a place is also awakening the cultural memory and cultural nostalgia of an era. According to the program team, Hunan opera has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and there are nearly 20 kinds of local operas such as Flower Drum Opera, Hunan Opera, Qi Opera, Baling Opera, and Han Opera. Among them, Qi Opera is a local opera that is 400 years earlier than the history of Peking Opera, and it is also the most popular and oldest opera in the traditional local opera of Hunan Province. Following the perspective of youth, the audience can see the vigorous power of young opera artists to uphold integrity and innovation. It is understood that the party also specially invited the sixties and seventies of the last century Flower Drum Opera masters Zhong Yichun, Gong Guyin, Li Xiaojia, Liu Zhaoqian, the four average age of 85 years old Xiao Yu warm and combined, as well as their world's best people surprise appearance, the scene will bring a tear-jerking reunion of master and apprentice, highlighting the power of the inheritance of opera literature and art.
In addition, there are also Xiao Xiaobo and Zhang Xuan, who have won the highest honor of Chinese opera "Plum Blossom Award", to challenge the four ancient beauties for the first time in a limited time; Kong Jihan, the smallest "little plum blossom" in the country, and Wang Xiaodan, the grandmother of the Peking Opera Mei School and the third-generation inheritor of Gan's Jingkun art, formed a dimension-breaking "cutest age difference" opera group; Hunan singer Liao Jialin and intangible cultural heritage national first-class performer Cai Xia brought a collision performance of Chinese and Western cultures; National singer Zhang also sang the classic song "Liuyang River" ...... againThe reappearance of many big-name cross-border mix-and-match classics will also connect the memories of the times.
*: Elephant News).