After the first round of performances at the Shanghai Grand Theatre at the end of last year and wide acclaim, the original folk opera "March of the Volunteers" will be stationed at the Wanping Theater from March 5, as an important part of the "Museum at the Doorstep • 2024 Red Culture on Campus", bringing a total of 8 public performances for more than 7,000 teachers and students in Xuhui District in 4 days. After the one-and-a-half-hour first performance in the morning, applause echoed in the theater for a long time, and the charm of stage art deeply touched the hearts of the children.
The majestic singing voice and strong artistic appeal on the stage made the behind-the-scenes story of "March of the Volunteers", a war song of the times, first poured in the Baidai Xiaolou, with the change of the stage scene, deeply touched the "heartstrings" of the children.
It's very beautiful! The national anthem is shown in the form of opera, so that our high school students have a sense of awe of the national anthem, and feel that it is not easy, after experiencing all kinds of difficulties, the national anthem was born, and I am now interested in opera, and I am ready to go home to search for information in this regard. A senior high school girl from Nanyang High School excitedly told reporters.
Xiao Chenjie, a teacher at Tianlin No. 4 Primary School, told reporters that in fact, he had an understanding of the birth of the national anthem, and the children visited the "March of the Volunteers" during the holiday to fill the Baidai Xiaolou, and the teachers also organized learning, but it was the first time to feel the birth of the national anthem in such a form as opera, "There is still a difference between the visual and auditory impact and watching the exhibition, especially when the actors sing the passages that the children are familiar with, for example, I heard the "March of the Broadsword" just now, or the national anthem sung at the end, They actually have a very strong reaction. ”
Today is the first performance in Xuhui District, I feel very good on the spot, I didn't expect that after singing every important paragraph, I will get a round of applause from the audience and students, especially when the curtain call, I am very moved. Zhang Qingxin, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Opera House, vice president and national first-class actor, told reporters that generally speaking, the campus is limited by the conditions of the theater, and it is difficult to present a rich stage and first-class effect. The role of moisturizing things silently, only when such a good drama of ours is presented to these students in a professional theater, whether it is singing or plotting or the overall presentation, can it move them more and penetrate into their hearts. ”
It is understood that the original national opera "March of the Volunteers" is jointly produced by the Shanghai Opera House and the Xuhui District Culture and Tourism Bureau, based on the documentary literary work "Rise Up - Children of the Wind and Clouds Film Production and March of the Volunteers" The Documentary of the Creative Process of the Volunteers, tells the story of Tian Han, Nie Er, Xia Yan, Situ Huimin, Xu Xingzhi, these progressive young people, participated, experienced and witnessed the birth of the "March of the Volunteers", vividly portrayed the group portrait of left-wing literary and artistic workers who "use the pen to make knives and guns", and artistically eulogized the "Fengyun Era". The "sons and daughters of the storm" emerged.
In order to facilitate the understanding and devotion of junior students to the plot, the main creative staff has adjusted the content of the plot and the choreography, and the duration has been reduced from 130 minutes to 90 minutes, making the plot more compact and more suitable for the viewing characteristics of primary and secondary school students. This is also another round of theme series activities planned and carried out by the Shanghai Opera House and Xuhui Cultural Tourism after the special party class "The Birth of the National Anthem Tells the Birth of the National Anthem" in Xuhui District, which was widely praised by the "First Lesson of School", and it is also another wonderful linkage of the "Great Ideological and Political Course" education community in Xuhui District.
As the first batch of theaters on the list of social aesthetic education classes, Wanping Theater has improved and enhanced the "cultural soft power" of the theater and transformed it into "cultural development power".
It is understood that after the resident performance, the Shanghai Opera House will also bring the opera "March of the Volunteers" into the campus and community through the first party class, special lectures and other forms, in the first half of this year, it is planned to tour 32 performances, covering about 30,000 audiences.
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Editor: Geng Jieyu.
Reviewer: Wei Li.
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