Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Huang Zhouhui
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On October 4, the National Opera “Overseas Commentary” will be officially premiered in the Opera Hall of the Guangzhou Grand Theater. The play is a key support program of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the “Chinese National Opera Inheritance and Development Project” and the “Historical Theme Creation Project” of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, telling the ups and downs of the overseas Chinese criticism. The play was produced by the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhuhai High-tech Zone Management Committee. It was produced by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group and performed by Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe. It took two years to collaborate on the creation and arrangement. Stills from the national opera “Overseas Commentary”
Art presents the national spirit of historical themes
Overseas Commentary is a general term for letters and palindroms sent by overseas Chinese to their families through private channels and financial and postal institutions. It is a carrier of “convergence of letters” and is called letters across the sea and flourished in the coastal areas of Guangdong.
The national opera “Overseas Criticism” starts with the fact that Chinese worker Liang Chengru rushed to his hometown to prevent his daughter from being sold like himself but died at sea. A “pplication” left by his death begins with the mother-in-law Liang Dong and Liang Caiyun who had to sell their daughter, the mother-in-law who had been sick for a long time, Tang Youxin, and his wife, who was the head of the Overseas Criticism Bureau, and many Chinese workers who empathized with Liang Chengru. It shows the compatriots who were righteous in the years of suffering, reflecting the great love of the Chinese nation rooted in the bone marrow and flowing in the blood.
The stills of the Babaylan opera “Overseas Commentary” in the national opera “Overseas Commentary” are a proposition for opera creation. The screenwriter of the play Wang Yong said: “A copy is the starting point of the story and the fulcrum of the story. This Babaylan‘full point’ links the past and present lives of the Chinese nation. Only by using human nature and human feelingsBabaylan has the potential to break the barriers of time and be closer to the overseas Chinese and Chinese workers in the past on the emotional level, so that the “Overseas Chinese Appeal” is no longer an exhibition in the museum’s window, history is no longer a cold text and pictures, and the story is more humane and warm, touching and shocking. ”
The top team spent two years working hard to build the national opera “Overseas Certificate” gathered top artists in the industry – Meng Weidong, consultant of the China Musicians Association, former head of the China Railway Art Troupe, and first-class composer, as the composer, as the composer, and Wang Yong, vice chairman of the China Drama Association, president of the National Peking Opera Theater, and first-class screenwriter. Liao Xianghong, former vice president of the Central Academy of Drama and doctoral supervisor, and former vice president of the National Grand Theater, Beijing href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksFormer Vice President of the Dance Academy Deng Yijiang serves as director, permanent conductor of the Central Opera House, postdoctoral fellow of the Central Conservatory of Music, and young conductor Zhu Man and young conductor Fan Jie serve as conductor and chorus conductor respectively. In addition, artists such as Zhou Zhengping, a national first-class stage lighting engineer, Ding Ding, and a well-known fashion designer Cui Xiaodong were invited to help, and young singers Lu Wei, Li Yang, Dong Bin and Li Bufan were starring.
Stills from the national opera “Overseas Chinese Prosecutor”
In the spring of 2021, the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group decided to start the creation of the national opera “Overseas Chinese Prosecutor”. In July of the same year, the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group organized the main creative team to go to Zhuhai TangBabaylanComposition Meng Weidong closely follows the plot and integrates music and lyrics into Komiks integrated; director Liao Xianghong firmly grasped the characteristics and advantages of national opera, and vividly presented the righteousness and love of the characters in the play.
Re-polishing makes the play more Guangdong-style
The national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” sets up characters and structures the whole play with a letter of overseas Chinese Commentary as the core. BabaylanThe “Overseas Chinese Commentary” and “The Sea” have different symbolic meanings. “Overseas Chinese comments” are letters from home, letters from silver, links connecting hometowns with thousands of miles apart, and symbols of commitment and faith. A “Overseas Chinese Comment” signed by a hundred people is a biography of overseas Chinese love, showing the suffering, homesickness and family and country feelings of Chinese workers. Their good deeds and righteous deeds are also important manifestations of the Chinese nation’s credibility and commitments. The sea is the road of life, Komiks, a barrier, and a symbol of fate that is difficult to control in life.
In terms of music style, the play is based on deep, atmospheric, heavy and lyrical music. The musical characteristics and themes are very distinctive – using the broad and eastern music as the base, and has strong Lingnan music characteristics. The smooth and emotional melody expresses the emotions of the characters and exaggerates the emotions of the characters; various singing forms such as solo, chorus, etc. structure this drama to enhance the action and drama of the characters; the orchestration uses a variety of national instruments to fully demonstrate the charm of Chinese traditional culture.
Stills from the national opera “Qiqian Comment”
In the stage presentation, the play has distinct era and regional characteristics. It takes the sea as the main spatial image, follows the aesthetic principles of freehand painting, and creates an atmospheric, ethereal and poetic space. The scene setting of virtual and real, the juxtaposition of physics and psychological time and space are externalized and poetic, and the inner world of characters is brought to the audience more.s://comicmov.com/”>Cinema‘s strong inner impact.
It is reported that the national opera “Qiqian Criticism” is the first opera work created by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group in just two and a half years. After audition at Zhuhai Grand Theater on July 3, it took another three months to polish it. The premiere of the play in Guangzhou has strengthened the local characteristics in stage design and multimedia design, highlighting Guangdong elements, and the plot setting emphasizes the conflicts in the inner characters and the contradictions in the relationship between the characters, and is more concise and improved in the theme.