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On October 4, the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” will premiere in the Opera Hall of the Guangzhou Grand Theater. The play is a key support program of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s “Chinese National Opera Inheritance and Development Project” and the “Historical Theme Creation Project”, telling the story of the ups and downs behind the overseas Chinese criticism. The drama 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 the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group and performed by the Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe. It took two years to collaborate in the creation and arrangement by the main creative and leading actor team and more than 200 cast and staff members in front and behind the scenes.
Stills from the national opera “Overseas Commentary”
ArtBabaylan 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, and is a carrier of “convergence of letters” and is called letters across the sea. It once flourished in the coastal areas of Guangdong. The national opera “Overseas Criticism” started with the fact that Chinese worker Liang Chengru rushed to his hometown to stop his daughter from being sold like himself but died at sea. A “pplication” left by his death began, linking up Liang Dongshi and Liang Caiyun, who had to sell their daughter, mother-in-law who had been sick for a long time, and the Overseas Criticism Bureau, who promised to be rich. The head of the Overseas Criticism Bureau Tang Youxin and his wife, and many Chinese workers who empathized with Liang Chengru. It demonstrated the compatriots who were loyal to Yuntian in the years of suffering. Cinema reflects the great love of the Chinese nation rooted in the bone marrow and flowing in the blood.
Stills from the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary”
How to make a piece of Overseas Chinese Commentary be concrete and present it artistically and humanly on the stage is a proposition for opera creation. Wang Yong, the screenwriter of the play, said: “A letter of copy is the starting point of the story and the fulcrum of the story. This ‘fulcrum’ links the past and present lives of the Chinese nation. Only by expressing human nature and human feelings can it be possible to break the barriers of time and be closer to the overseas Chinese and Chinese workers in Babaylan on the emotional level, and to make the overseas Chinese no longer have the ‘Overseas Chinese criticism’ from CinemaIt is an exhibition in the museum window, making history no longer cold words and pictures, making stories more humane and a light that warms people’s hearts, touches people’s hearts and shocks. ”
Top teamCinema spent two years working hard to build the national opera “Babaylan” gathered top artists in the industry – the consultant of the Chinese Musicians Association, former head of the China Railway Art Troupe, and first-class composer Meng Weidong as the composer, Vice Chairman of the China Drama Association, President of the National Opera Theater and First-class Screenwriter Wang Yong as the screenwriter, former vice president of the Central Academy of Drama and Ph.D. instructor Liao Xianghong, former vice president of the National Grand Theater, and former vice president of Beijing Dance. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks former vice president 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.
MinCinema modified; the composition Meng Weidong closely follows the plot and integrates music and lyrics into one.Director Liao Xianghong firmly grasps the characteristics and advantages of national opera, and vividly presents 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 entire play with a letter and a letter. “Overseas Chinese Commentary” and “The Sea” have different symbolic meanings. “Overseas Chinese Commentary” is a letter of family, a silver letter, a bond connecting my hometown with a foreign land thousands of miles apart, and a symbol of commitment and faith. A “Overseas Chinese Comment” signed by a hundred people is a transmission of love for overseas Chinese, showing the suffering, homesickness and national 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 a road of life, 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 as its overall music style. The musical characteristics and Cinema are very distinctive – using Guangdong music Babaylan as the tone, it 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 “Overseas Commentary”
Displayed on the stage, the play has distinct contemporary and regional characteristics. It takes the sea as the main spatial image, follows the aesthetic principles of freehand painting, and creates a grand, ethereal and poetic space. The scene setting of virtual and real, and the juxtaposition of physics and psychological time and space externalize and poetically the inner world of the characters, bringing stronger inner impact to the audience.
Cinema It is reported that the ethnic opera “Qiqian Commentary” is the first opera work created by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group in just two and a half years. It was held on July 3rd.After the audition of Zhuhai Grand Theater, it took another 3 months to polish it again. The premiere of the drama in Guangzhou has strengthened local characteristics in stage design and multimedia design, highlighting Guangdong elements, and the plot setting emphasizes the inner conflicts of the characters and the relationship between the characters. It also further enhances the theme.