A Wu opera often innovates and inherits a good opera. The sixth stop of the “Drama Universe” cultural tourism season, co-organized by Shandong Radio and Television Station and the Chinese Dramatists Association, came to Jinhua, Zhejiang, focusing on Wu Opera. Through the exploration of classic plays, musical instruments, theater actors, etc., you can experience the integrity, innovation and integrity of Wu Opera. The fire is passed down from generation to generation.
This Saturday at 20:30, the sixth episode of the cultural and tourism season of “The Universe” will be broadcast. Wang Peiyu, a national first-class actor and a veteran of the Peking Opera School, will continue to serve as a recommender and walk into Jinhua with founder Zheng Yecheng and host Xin Kai : Challenge Wu Opera’s unique skills, learn to play musical instruments, watch Wu Opera performances, participate in Wu Opera inheritance activities, and finally present a drama with Wu Opera’s unique skills in the form of a micro-film.
“The best bridge in the world” is amazing
Wu Opera actors talk about “literary and martial arts”
In front of the China Wu Theater, the founder Zheng Yecheng hid in the team of opera broadcasters and started the journey of exploring Wu Opera in a unique way. Wu Opera originated in Jinhua area, also known as Jinhua Opera. It is one of the main local opera types in Zhejiang Province, China. It has profound historical heritage and rich artistic connotation. Wu Opera has a variety of performance forms, including singing, chanting, acting, fighting, dancing and other skills. It is famous for its high-pitched and exciting singing and rough and unrestrained performances, which complements Jinhua’s “water flows through the South for three thousand miles, and the air presses the river city to fourteen states”. .
Wu Opera “The Legend of White Snake” is not only a landmark play in the history of Wu Opera, but “Broken Bridge” is also known as “The First Bridge in the World”. Guests of the program stepped into the ancient city of Wuzhou with a history of more than 1,100 years. An excerpt from “Broken Bridge” fully demonstrated the performance characteristics of Wu Opera’s “literary and martial arts”. Xiao Qing and Xu Xian’s chase and me escape, Bai Suzhen’s Even though they resented him, they defended him, which made the guests marvel at him again and again. With his excellent martial arts skills, Zheng Yecheng not only completed the “coiling snake” action in one go, but also successfully challenged the “jumping zombie” one of “Xuxian’s Thirteen Falls”, which attracted continuous praise from Wu Opera actors and Wang Peiyu.
Wu opera actor Lou Sheng has played Xu Xian for more than ten years since he was 20 years old. Even he himself can’t count how many performances of “Broken Bridge” he has performed. Lou Sheng said: Wu Opera pays attention to “Wu Opera is written in martial arts, Literary Opera is performed in Wu”, that is, “Martial Opera takes your time, and Literary Opera breaks the stage.” This is actually a manifestation of further communication between the opera and the audience. The audience’s love for opera is no less than An actor’s love for drama.
One gong and drum, half a show
Feel the “one dish” spirit in the opera industry
Wuyi, known as the “opera nest”, embodies a strong atmosphere of opera. “Yandang Mountain”, a pure martial arts performance, made the guests say it was “enjoyable”. Amidst the rapid music and the beating of gongs and drums, everyone used swords and guns at the same time. Fighting and fighting interspersed with falling and falling. The actors used Various high, difficult, floating and dangerous combat and skill combinations are used to show the fierceness of fighting and the overwhelming momentum of siege. None of the protagonists sings a single line, and the entire plot of the play relies entirely on martial arts. It is a difficult martial arts drama on the opera stage.
In addition to the actors on stage, the staff off stage are also an important part of a performance. It is said that one gong and drum is half the opera. When the drum sounds, the opera sings, and when the drum ends, the music disperses. As the backbone of the rhythm of the drama and the conductor of the band, the drummer can be said to have millions of soldiers in his chest, and the handsome seal in his hand can shake the world. Liu Xiaolin, “the most beautiful drummer in Wu Opera”, uses his drum skills to make each piece of Wu Opera more perfect and harmonious. Drumming requires a lot of physical strength and is usually held by young and middle-aged men. Influenced by his father since childhood, Liu Xiaolin broke gender barriers and firmly chose to play drums. She feels that the Wu opera passed down from her parents should be carried forward and passed down. During the performance, she needs to constantly change her gestures while also always paying attention to the movements, expressions, singing, dialogue, dance, etc. of the actors on stage. According to the requirements of the plot, she must prioritize the order and the cadences appropriately, and deeply integrate herself into the plot. among.
Zheng Yecheng and Wang Peiyu learned the gong and drum music from Liu Xiaolin, and tried a unique collaboration, showing the “one dish” spirit of the opera band. The art of opera is collective collaboration, and the band is the soul of the performance. Just like a dish, everyone is a leaf in it. Only when everyone supports each other can the success of the opera performance be achieved.
Wu opera meets post-00 generationmanifestyouth power
Zheng Yecheng’s “Hero Post” helps the inheritance of martial arts
This program also organized the “Xi Universe Invites You to Watch Wu Opera” event. Zheng Yecheng and Wang Peiyu went to university campuses and primary school classrooms in two groups to spread opera knowledge and invite 100 post-00 opera lovers to watch Wu opera performances.
In the performances at the China Wu Theater, plays such as “Three Strikes of Bone Demons”, “Lü Bu Tries the Horse”, “The Goddess Scattered Flowers” and “Hanging Paintings” dazzled the audience. The Wu Opera actors in their twenties have traveled to dozens of countries and performed in Having played hundreds of scenes, practice makes perfect, and skill makes perfect. The integration and innovation of traditional culture and modern art allow the audience to feel the charm of opera art again. Wang Peiyu couldn’t help but sigh that she can learn from Wu opera practitioners born in the 2000s, constantly think and explore, and absorb a large number of elements for her own use.
As soon as the scene was taken, the final creative and performance show unfolded in the storyteller’s narration. The creative and performer Zheng Yecheng published “Hero Posts” to witness the vast world of opera and martial arts. Wu opera heroes and masters emerged in large numbers, creating a foundation for the spread of the opera. Chinese martial arts dramas do their best. National first-class actor Lou Sheng, a martial arts actor from Zhejiang Zhongyue Wu Opera Troupe, and actors and performers from Zhejiang Wu Opera Research Institute participated in the grand event. The martial arts movements such as stick play, tiger leaping forward slope, front bridge, small flip, spinner, air bridge, chair work, and flower stage are all exciting. Jinhua has Wu Opera, and the national quintessence has a future. It is precisely because people in every generation are willing to devote their youth to opera that Wu Opera can take root in the hometown, bloom overseas, and continue to flourish.
This is a trip to experience opera and a trip to explore Wu Opera. Follow the tide of the times and experience the innovation of Wu Opera that keeps pace with the times and its inheritance from generation to generation. Travel with the opera. This Saturday at 20:30, the Jinhua chapter of the sixth issue of the cultural tourism season of Shandong Satellite TV’s “The Universe” will be broadcast, so stay tuned.
